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.”

• Planning Ideas That Matter: Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice (MIT Press, 2012), edited by Vale with Bishwapriya Sanyal and Christina Rosan (MCP/PhD’02) received the award for "Best Edited Volume on Planning History."  The volume charts the trajectories of powerful planning ideas in an increasingly interconnected world.