News
Mar 23, 2018
RCHI invites you to join us at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Room 9-255) April 2,2018 for a presentation by Dr. S. Atyia Martin entitled "Seeking Equitable Resilience for Boston and Beyond."
Additional remarks will be made by RCHI Director Lawrence Vale, Ceasar McDowell, and Jonah Susskind.
Jan 10, 2018
Resilient Cities Housing Initiative Chair, Lawrence Vale was invited to co-chair the “Human Settlements” Track of the MIT Conference on the Resilient Reconstruction of the Caribbean which took place at the MIT campus December 12-13, 2017. This opportunity enabled Vale to present on RCHI research and activities, and also contribute to conference wide dialogue on resilience and recovery after natural disasters.
Vale Joins 500 Resilience Leaders at Urban Resilience Summit 2017
Jul 24, 2017
100 Resilient Cities, a project of the Rockefeller Foundation, will hold its 2017 Urban Resilience Summit in New York City from July 25 - 28. Lawrence Vale will join 500 leaders in the urban resilience field in sessions to share best practices and solutions in tackling 21st century resilience challenges.
The New School & Rockefeller Foundation Publish ''The Housing Challenge''
May 8, 2017
RCHI member Laura Wainer, in partnership with Robert Buckley and Achilles Kallergis of the New School and the Rockefeller Foundation, recently published a summary of an October 2014 meeting in Bellagio, Italy attended by experts and academics whose countries are undertaking large, multi-billion-dollar housing projects.
May 1, 2018
RCHI researchers Linda Shi, Zachary Lamb, Xi (Colleen) Qiu, Hongru Cai, and Lawrence Vale co-authored the journal article “Promises and perils of collective land tenure in promoting urban resilience: Learning from China's urban villages.” The article was published electronically April 26, 2018 in Habitat International and discusses RCHI’s work to understand the role of collective governance in the urban villages of Shenzhen, China.
Apr 30, 2018
Exciting news for the RCHI team as RCHI’s Zachary Lamb and Lawrence Vale co-authored a paper set to be published as a chapter in a sequel to the Routledge Companion to Urban Design. In their paper, “Resilient Urban Design: Shaping the Spatial Politics of Risk in a Crisis-Prone World,” Lamb and Vale consider how urban resilient design can create spaces that are more just and environmentally sound.
Apr 29, 2018
We are excited to announce that RCHI’s Lawrence J. Vale’s paper, “Cities of Stars: Urban Renewal, Public Housing Regeneration, and the Community Empowerment Possibility of Governance Constellations” was pre-published electronically April 12, 2018 by the International Journal of Urban Sciences. Vale is the sole author on this article, in which he seeks to examine the implementation of the largest public housing regeneration programme in the United States, HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere). The abstract is below and the full text is located at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/12265934.2018.1455530. Print publication to follow.
Nov 3, 2018
We are excited to announce that Oxford University Press will publish RCHI Director Lawrence J. Vale’s newest book, After the Projects: Public Housing Redevelopment and the Governance of the Poorest Americans, on November 15, 2018. E-book or hard copy versions are currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com or directly from Oxford University Press.
Housing Policy Debate publishes paper co-authored by Vale, Shamsuddin and Kelly
Jul 1, 2018
RCHI’s Lawrence J. Vale coauthored a paper with Shomon Shamsuddin and Nicholas Kelly entitled, “Broken Promises or Selective Memory Planning? A National Picture of HOPE VI Plans and Realities.” We are excited to announce that paper was pre-published online by Housing Policy Debate June 7, 2018 and is now viewable online.
Linda Shi Presents at 2017 AAG Annual Meeting
Apr 5, 2017
At the 2017 Association of American Geographers Conference, held nearby in Boston, RCHI collaborator Linda Shi presents in a session titled "Contradictions of the Climate Friendly City 3: Critical Perspectives on Urban Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation," drawing from work with other RCHI collaborators, including Kian Goh and Zachary Lamb, on the equity impacts of urban land use planning for climate adaptation. She will also presented a paper, co-authored with RCHI collaborators Zachary Lamb, Colleen Qiu, Lawrence Vale, and Hongru Cai, titled "Tenure Security and Urban Resilience: The Power of Collective Title in China's Urban Villages."
Wainer and Ndengeyingoma Present on Best Practices in Affordable Housing in Kigali
Aug 31, 2016
RCHI Members Laura Wainer and Billy Ndengeyingoma recently collaborated with Sally Murray of the International Growth Centre on the report "Incremental housing, and other design principles for low-cost housing" in Kigali, Rwanda. To address Kigali's critical shortage of low-income housing, they explore the promise of incremental building, where unfinished houses on serviced plots are provided for beneficiaries to improve over time.
RCHI Launches Two-Year Collaboration with Fundación Mario Santo Domingo
Aug 15, 2016
Andres Achury and Francis Goyes, Master in City Planning candidates, will visit Colombia in late August to carry out preliminary field research with Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD), one of the largest foundations in Colombia, for a new RHCI research initiative: Assessing Urban Resilience for Low-Income Housing Enterprises in Colombia. This visit kicks off a two-year collaboration between MIT, led by Prof. Lawrence Vale, and FMSD, with the objective of evaluating FMSD’s housing macro projects through RCHI's resiliency framework
Vale Speaks on Olympic Displacement
Aug 5, 2016
On WBUR's Only A Game, RCHI Director Lawrence Vale spoke on displacement caused by the Atlanta and Rio Olympic Games in "The Olympic Juggernaut."
Vale Talks Public Housing Policy on Planet Money
Apr 29, 2016
Larry Vale discusses the motivations behind public housing policies in a broader story on NPR’s Planet Money about the “deliberate choice” involved in subsidizing housing for the middle class and the wealthy more so than the poor.
RCHI Undertakes Study on the Resilient Chinese Urban Village
Dec 2, 2015
With support from the Samuel Tak Lee Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab, RCHI is undertaking a one-year pilot project working with Chinese colleagues in the Pearl River Delta, to develop a preliminary framework for understanding the intersection of real estate and climate change in the context of Chinese urban village redevelopment.
Nov 8, 2015
Lawrence Vale presents expanded RCHI case on North Beach Place in San Francisco at the Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference in Los Angeles.
Vale Presents at 2017 UAA Annual Conference
Apr 22, 2017
At the 47th Annual Urban Affairs Conference, this year held in Minneapolis, Dr. Lawrence Vale presented work from a forthcoming book in a talk entitled "HOPE VI, Boston Style: Prioritizing Public Housing Residents While Reinvesting in the Neighborhood."
RCHI Team Headlines Four Sessions at ACSP Annual Conference
Oct 25, 2015
RCHI team members presented at multiple sessions at the Association of Collegiate Planning Schools’ 2015 Annual Conference, “Justice and the City."
Vale and Shamsuddin Present at Housing in an Unequal World Conference
Sep 19, 2015
Lawrence Vale and Shomon Shamsuddin present “Mixed Income Housing and HOPE VI: Which Mix With What Hope?” at Housing in an Unequal World Conference for the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment.
JAPA Publishes Article on Climate Adaptation Planning from RCHI Team Members
Aug 26, 2015
The Journal of the American Planning Association publishes an article “Explaining Progress in Climate Adaptation Planning Across 156 U.S. Municipalities” authored by RCHI’s Linda Shi and Jessica Debats, along with Eric Chu. Read the full article on JAPA Online.
RCHI Participates in Housing for All
May 30, 2015
RCHI participates in Housing for All: A Series of Events on the Future of Public Housing in Vancouver.
Vale on Olympics' Repercussions in The Globe
Apr 23, 2015
Lawrence Vale presents expanded RCHI case on North Beach Place in San Francisco at the Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference in Los Angeles.
Vale's Public Housing Myths Cited in Next City, Urban Omnibus
Apr 22, 2015
Lawrence Vale presents expanded RCHI case on North Beach Place in San Francisco at the Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference in Los Angeles.
Purging the Poorest Awarded 2015 UAA Best Book in Urban Affairs
Apr 17, 2015
RCHI director Lawrence J. Vale receives the 2015 Urban Affairs Best Book Award for Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.
RCHI Member Shomon Shamsuddin Joins Tufts
Mar 11, 2015
Shomon Shamsuddin joined Tufts University as Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Community Development in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Book launch delivered at MIT for The Equitable Resiliant City
September 30, 2024
Vale gives talk to Indonesians linking Equitable Resilience to UN Sustainable Development Goals
Aug, 2020
Lawrence Vale (remotely) presented the inaugural public lecture for the 2020-2021 academic year at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung. Attendees included hundreds of students and faculty as well as several invitees from the local government in Indonesia.
RCHI Stalwarts Move Forward in Academic Careers
2021
Professor Shomon Shamsuddin received tenure at Tufts in 2021, as did Professor Kian Goh at UCLA in 2022. Linda Shi is an Assistant Professor at Cornell; Zachary Lamb is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Jessica Debats Garrison is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine; Suzy Harris-Brandts is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University; Colleen Chiu-Shee is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong; and Laura Wainer is an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York’s Spitzer School.
Nicholas Kelly is a Senior Fellow at the Boston Housing Authority
2021
Mora Orensanz and Partners launch La Firme in Lima, Peru in 2021
2021
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