About . . . Lawrence Vale

Lawrence Vale is professor of urban design and planning and head of the department of urban studies and planning at MIT. He is the author or editor of six books examining urban design and housing, including Architecture, Power, and National Identity (Yale University Press, 1992; winner of the Society of Architectural Historians' Spiro Kostof Award for Architecture and Urbanism), From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (Harvard University Press, 2000; winner of the Urban Affairs Association's "Best Book in Urban Affairs" Award) and Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods (Harvard University Press, 2002). His work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has merited the Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, an EDRA/Places Award for "Place Research," and the John M. Corcoran Award for Community Investment.