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Lawrence J. Vale

Author of The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster

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Lawrence J. Vale is Associate Dean and Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Resilient Cities Housing Initiative.

Works by Lawrence J. Vale

The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (2005) 46 copies

From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (2000) 30 copies

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (2013) 20 copies

Imaging the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions (2001) 10 copies

Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods (2002) 8 copies

After the Projects: Public Housing Redevelopment and the Governance of the Poorest Americans (2019) 5 copies

Associated Works

New Directions in Urban Public Housing (1998) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Works: 6
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ISBNs: 25
Languages: 1

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