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| Xavier
de Souza Briggs Phillip Clay Lorlen e Hoyt Langley Keyes Frank Levy |
Ceasar McDowell
Paul Osterman Martin Rein Karl Seidman J. Phil Thompson |
| Affiliate Faculty Members for other program groups include: | |
| Balakrishnan Rajagopal | > community-based strategies for rights and justice, housing and land use |
| Joe Ferreira | > community information systems, GIS-spatial analysis |
| Susan Silberberg | > economic development, cultural development, urban design |
| Ann Spirn | > urban landscape planning and design; landscape history and theory; landscape photography |
| Larry Vale | > design politics, public housing, qualitative methods |
| Karen Polenske | regional political economy and planning |
Xavier de Souza Briggs
Associate Professor of Urban Planning + Sociology, Ph.D. Columbia
Xav is sociologist and planner whose work is focused on racial and ethnic diversity, democratic problem-solving, and inequality in cities around the globe. His last book, The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (Brookings Institution Press, 2005), won the 2007 Davidoff Award, the highest book award in planning, and has been widely adopted in courses nationwide. In 2008, MIT Press published Democracy as Problem-Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities across the Globe, which examines efforts to lead change at the local level in Brazil, India, South Africa, and the U.S. He teaches courses on strategy and implementation, the history and political dilemmas of planning as a practice, and how to make efforts to “green” cities a force for greater social equity. He is the founder of two online resources for self-directed learning: The Community Problem-Solving Project @ MIT and Working Smarter in Community Development. Beyond his research on young people, social capital, segregation, and economic opportunity, he has been a community planner in the South Bronx and other inner-city communities, a Presidential appointee and senior advisor to The White House and Congress while at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a consultant to leading national and international organizations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank. He spent six years on the faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Xav has been an expert witness in civil rights litigation and an editorial board member of housing, urban sociology, and planning journals. He is a member of the Aspen Roundtable on Community Change and other groups, and his views have appeared in (click on links for examples): The New York Times, Boston Globe, National Public Radio, and other media. He was raised in the Caribbean and educated at Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia universities. Xav and his family live in Boston’s culturally and economically diverse Dorchester district.
Phillip Clay
Chancellor and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Ph.D. MIT
Phil conducts research on housing policy and social demographic characteristics of community development. His experience includes community organization and program administration. His interests include low-income housing and community-based development. Current research evaluates the effectiveness of various initiatives to build organizational and developmental capacity in community-based development organizations. The research explores ways to connect community development to social goals such as youth development. Phil is a former Assistant Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT-Harvard.
While Chancellor Clay is presently teaching, his schedule is very limited to meet one-on-one, but is frequently available at department functions.
Lorlene Hoyt
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Lorlene is an urban planning scholar, educator, and practitioner who thinks that planning scholarship (“inquiry”) should be useful to practitioners on the ground and planning “practice” informs and advances scholarship. Organized according to these beliefs, Lorlene’s online portfolio deliberately positions planning education (“instruction”) in the center because she sees the classroom as an effective bridge between planning scholarship and practice.
Lorlene, who is a faculty member of the HCED Group, the UIS Group, and the Community Innovators Lab, is also the Project Director for MIT@Lawrence –a HUD-funded and remote university-community partnership between the Institute and the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. As part of this initiative, Lorlene and Lang (Keyes, also a faculty member of the HCED group) have co-taught what is commonly known as the Lawrence Practicum (11.423 - Information, Asset-building, and the Immigrant City) since 2002. Students who take this service-learning practicum strategically build earlier student contributions by strengthening existing relationships with community leaders and residents and increasing affordable housing opportunities.
With training and experience in both City Planning and Landscape Architecture, Lorlene’s core interests include neighborhood economic development, downtown revitalization, planning pedagogy, and spatial information technologies. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Economic Affairs, International Journal of Public Administration, Geography Compass, Cityscape, and the Journal of Urban Technology.
Lorlene continually keeps a foot in the world of planning practice as co-founder and General Partner of Urban Revitalizers, a women and minority-owned real estate development and planning consultancy located in Boston, Massachusetts. Before joining MIT, she supervised the crime analysis and mapping unit at the Philadelphia Police Department and worked as a senior planner for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Lorlene and her wife reside in Boston's eclectic Bay Village neighborhood with their two lively Ethiopian American children.
Lorlene's portfolio: http://www.urbanrevitalization.net
Langley Keyes
Ford Professor of City and Regional Planning and Head, Housing, Community, and Economic Development Program Group, Chair of MCP Program (Spring), Ph.D. MIT
Lang has experience in both the professional and academic worlds. His professional work includes: Chairman, Massachusetts Government Land Bank, Special Assistant for Policy Development, Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development; Director, Housing Development for Boston Model Cities Program; and Associate Director, Greater Boston Community Development, Inc. His current research interests include the role of CDCs in community development, welfare-to-work and state housing policy. Lang teaches Introduction to Housing and Community Economic Development Lang's Seminar, Planning and Institutional Processes (Domestic), and co-teaches Housing and Human Services.
Frank Levy
Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics, and Chair, Ph.D. Program, Ph.D. Yale
Frank held teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland and College Park and worked for four years at the Urban Institute before coming to MIT in 1992. A noted economist, Frank conducts ongoing research on United States' living standards and employment patterns most recently summarized in his book The New Dollars and Dreams (Russell Sage Foundation, 1999). He also works and teaches in the area of K-12 education. His 1996 book, Teaching the New Basic Skills (Basic Books), co-authored with Dick Murnane of Harvard, is a frequently cited source on how to raise K-12 skills to levels now required for a decent paying job. Currently, Frank and Dick are doing a series of case studies on the computerization of work and its effect on employment opportunities. Frank's work makes him a frequent source for newspaper and magazine journalists and an occasional guest on television shows including the ABC Nightline and the Jim Lehrer News Hour. Over 15 years, Frank's research has moved from the U.S. income distribution to the shrinking job market for semi-skilled labor and now to computers' impact on employment. Beginning last year, he began to teach in this area and his research now focuses on the intersections among artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and the distributions of jobs and wages. Frank teaches American Living Standards and Income Inequality, Economics of Education, Microeconomics for Planners, Information Technology and the US Labor Market, Gateway: Planning Economics and co-teaches the Ph.D. Seminar and Urban Labor Markets.
Paul Osterman
Professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School of Management MIT, Ph.D. MIT
Paul has authored and edited several books on the American youth labor market, partnerships among labor, management and government, and changing patterns in the American labor market. He has also written numerous articles on topics such as labor market policy, job training programs, economic development, anti-poverty programs, and the organization of work within firms. Paul has been a senior administrator of job training programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and consulted widely to government agencies, foundations, community groups, and public interest organizations. Among his current projects are work with the Industrial Areas Foundations in the Southwest and a Ford and Rockefeller Foundation project on "Reconstructing America's Labor Market Institutions."
Martin Rein
Professor of Sociology, Ph.D. Brandeis
Marty's interests include the comparative study of social welfare systems and the role of research in the development of policy and practice. He is presently completing a book for the Russell Sage foundation on the Social Service Labor Market (with Bob Lerman). Professor Rein is a member of the external faculty of the European Centre for Social Welfare Training and Research, is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Free University in Berlin and is a frequent consultant for The Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. His continued interest in comparative social science led him to organize a Comparative Study of Social Networks that was held during the fall and spring semesters, 1997-1998. He coordinated a seminar on Comparative-Historical Analysis during the fall semester of 1998. His most recent books include Comparative and Historical Analysis, The Social Service Labor Market (with Bob Lehrman), Enterprise and the Welfare State (with Eskil Wadensjo), and Frame-Reflection: Exploring New Approaches to the Resolution of Policy Controversies (with Donald Schon). Marty teaches Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy, The Policy-Making Process, The Field of Public Policy, Perspectives on Labor Markets and co-teaches Housing and Human Services, Discourse on Social Policy, and the Doctoral Seminar.
Karl Seidman
Lecturer in Economic Development, MPP Harvard
Karl is an economic development practitioner with professional experience at a community development corporation, a local government, state legislature, private consulting firm, and a state redevelopment and development finance agency. His interests include local economic development strategy, economic development finance, public purpose real estate development, and defense conversion. Karl is overseeing an evaluation of Boston's Empowerment Zone program and is part of a national study of majority black urban neighborhoods. He is active in several professional associations, he is a Board Member of Northeast Economic Developers Association and the Vice President of Massachusetts Economic Development Council. Karl teaches Financing Community Economic Development, Economic Development Planning, Revitalizaing Urban Main Streets, and Economic Development Planning Skills (IAP).
J. Phil Thompson
Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Ph.D. City University of New York
Phil Thompson is an urban planner and political scientist. He received a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1977, a M.U.P. from Hunter College in 1986, and a PhD. in Political Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1990. Phil worked as Deputy General Manager of the New York Housing Authority, and as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing Coordination. Phil is a frequent advisor to trade unions in their efforts to work with immigrant and community groups across the United States. Phil’s most recent academic work includes a 2004 review of public health interventions in poor black communities (written with Arline Geronimus) published in the Du Bois Review, entitled “To Denigrate, Ignore, or Disrupt: The Health Impact of Policy-induced Breakdown of Urban African American Communities of Support,” an article entitled “Judging Mayors” in the June 2005 issue of Perspectives on Politics, and a recent book called Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities and the Struggle for Deep Democracy published by Oxford University Press.
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