Speakers Lawrence J. Vale (M.S. MIT; DPhil, Oxford) Lawrence Vale is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning (with tenure) and chair of the Undergraduate Program. His research interests include design politics, public housing, and qualitative methods. He is currently working on two books on American public housing, one focusing on history and ideology, the other centered on neighborhood-specific cases of decline and redevelopment. Recent publications include Architecture, Power, and National Identity (Yale University Press, 1992); "Empathological Places: Residents' Ambivalence Toward Remaining in Public Housing," Journal of Planning Education and Research, (Spring 1997); and "Public Housing Redevelopment: Seven Kinds of Success," Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 7, No. 3, 1996). Professor Vale has recently been named MacVicar Fellow at MIT. Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Sam Bass Warner is visiting professor of Urban Studies and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. He was formerly William Edwards Huntington Professor of History at Boston University and Jack Meyerhoff Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis. His many books include Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston 1870-1900, The Private City, Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, and The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City.   Commentators Tridib Banerjee (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tridib Banerjee is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning and Development. He specializes in urban design and international development, and has studied comparative urbanism and urbanization, physical-spatial planning, design methods, childhood experiences in cities, the spatial environment of adolescence, and public perceptions of the coastal landscape. Recently he has completed a project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to study privatization of downtown open spaces in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Currently he and his colleagues have another grant from NEA to examine the role of design in contentious development. His publications include: Beyond the Neighbor Unit (with William C. Baer) and City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch (co-edited with Michael Southworth). M. Christine Boyer (B.A., Goucher College; M.S., University of Pennsylvania; M.C.P., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) M.Christine Boyer is professor of urbanism at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. She is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the American city, city planning, preservation planning and computer science. Before coming to Princeton, Boyer was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute. She has written extensively about American urbanism. Her publications include Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning 1890-1945, Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1900, and The City of Collective Memory, which was published by The MIT Press in the fall of 1994. Her latest book, CyberCities, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 1996. Gary Hack (B.Arch., University of Manitoba; M.Arch. and MUP, University of Illinois, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, Massachusetss Institute of Technology. AICP.) Professor Hack is Dean and Paley Professor at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. Urban Design and Planning consultant. Previously professor of urban design and department head of urban studies and planning at MIT. Has taught at many universities in the U.S., Canada, China, Hong Kong, and other countries. Wide practice includes plan for the West Side Waterfront in New York,redevelopment plan for Prudential Center in Boston, and new Metropolitan Plan for Bangkok. Co-author of Site Planning, Third Edition, and Lessons from Local Experiences. On the board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and the Planning Accreditation Board. Michael Southworth: (BA, BArch, University of Minnesota, MCP, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Michael Southworth is Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in urban and regional design, land use planning, environmental psychology, environmental education, and mapping. Publications include Kevin Lynch: His Life and Work in The American Planner, with Tridib Banerjee. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1994; AIA Guide to Boston, with Susan Southworth. Boston: The Globe Pequot Press, Second Edition, 1992; Ornamental Ironwork: An Illustrated Guide to its Design, History, and Use in American Architecture, with Susan Southworth. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991; Designing and Managing the Strip, City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch, with Kevin Lynch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Edited books include Wasting Away, with posthumous work by Kevin Lynch. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991 and City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch, with Tridib Banerjee. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,1990.

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