Lawrence Vale

Associate Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Director of MIT’s Resilient Cities Housing Initiative
Community Innovators Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ljvale@mit.edu

Lawrence Vale is Associate Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and director of MIT’s Resilient Cities Housing Initiative. Larry is the author or editor of twelve books and more than sixty articles examining urban design, affordable housing and city planning, including four prize-winning volumes on American public housing history, design, policy, and politics. More globally, he is best known for two other books: Architecture, Power, and National Identity (an analysis of designed capital cities) and a co-edited volume, The Resilient City.

At MIT, Larry has won the Institute’s highest awards for teaching and for graduate student advising as well as departmental awards for advising and service to students.

Healthy Communities through Housing Justice: Combating Racial Health Inequities through Community-Driven Housing Interventions

This project aims to understand the health equity implications of local innovations in housing that directly address mechanisms that have enabled the racialization of housing cost burden.

November 15, 2022
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