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About Larry:
Larry once worked as a shepherd on horseback.
On a more serious note:
Associate Dean Lawrence 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. Vale holds degrees from Amherst College (B.A. in American Studies, summa cum laude), M.I.T. (S.M.Arch.S.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.), which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author or editor of eleven books examining urban design, housing and planning.
Much of Professor Vale's most recent published work has examined the history, politics, and design of American public housing.
His areas of interest include: Climate Change, History and Theory of Planning, Housing, Housing Development, Social Equity, Theory of Urbanism, Urban Design
You can learn more about Larry here: https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/lawrence-vale
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