Books written by DUSP faculty have won two different awards from the International Planning History Society.
Larry Vale's Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (University of Chicago Press, 2013) was named last year's "Best Book on Planning History in the USA." Using detailed case-studies from Atlanta and Chicago, the book offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.”