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 thirteen 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. His most recent book is The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis (MIT Press, October 2024), with Zachary B. Lamb.
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.