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Associate Dean Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, where he served as Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 2002 until January 2009. He has taught in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning since 1988, and he is currently the director of the Resilient Cities Housing Initiative (RCHI), a unit of the School’s Center for Advanced Urbanism. He was president of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History for 2011-2013. He is the author or editor of eleven books examining urban design, housing and planning.

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شهر از نو: شهرها با کدام رو...

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Purging the Poorest: Public...

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From the Puritans to the Pr...

3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Architecture, Power, and Na...

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Public Housing Myths: Perce...

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Planning Ideas That Matter:...

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Reclaiming Public Housing: ...

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After the Projects: Public ...

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The Limits of Civil Defence...

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“the symbolic dimensions of disaster and recovery cannot be separated from political history. Even as buildings and memorials become the touchstones of memory and identity, they are also implicated in larger social, cultural, and political processes.”
Lawrence J. Vale, The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster



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