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November, 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. Please click on the image above or the link to access conference information.
October,2015. RCHI Team Members presented at multiple sessions at the Association of Collegiate Planning Schools’ 2015 Annual Conference “Justice and the City”. Please click on the image above or click on the link to access the full article.
September, 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. Please click on the image above or the link to access conference information.
Fall,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.Please click on the image above or the link to access the full article.
August, 2015. JAPA 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. Please click on the image above or click on the link to access the full article.
May, 2015. RCHI participates in Housing for All: A Series of Events on the Future of Public Housing in Vancouver. Please click on the image above or the link to access program details.
April,2015. RCHI director Lawrence J. Vale receives the 2015 Urban Affairs Best Book Award for Purging the Poorest. Please click on the image above or click on the link to access the full article.
April,2015. RCHI director Lawrence J. Vale co-edited book Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy cited in Next City & Urban Omnibus. Urban Omnibus link, video.
April,2015. RCHI director Lawrence J. Vale talks about the repercussion of the Olympic on low income residents in Boston.Please click on the image above or the link to access the full article.
February,2015.NPR Piece on “A Chicago Community Puts Mixed-Income Housing To The Test” Cites RCHI’s Lawrence Vale. Please click on the image above or click on the link to access the full article.
January, 2015. The Conversation” publishes an article “Mixed Income Public Housing: Mixed Outcomes, Mixed-Up Concept” authored by RCHI’s Lawrence Vale & Shomon Shamsuddin.
December, 2014.RCHI team members Lawrence Vale, Shomon Shamsuddin, and Kian Goh reflect on their July 2014 visit to Banda Aceh, Indonesia in an article published in Places Journal.
December, 2014.The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster, co-edited by RCHI director Lawrence J. Vale, has recently been published in a Japanese edition.Link to English version.
September,2014.RCHI co-sponsors People Matter symposium. This one-day global symposium will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of psychologist Marc Fried’s seminal publication “Grieving for a Lost Home”.
July,2014.Shomon Shamsuddin and Larry Vale presented papers at the International Sociological Association conference in Yokohama, Japan. Highlighting concerns with redeveloping public housing and mix-income housing.
July, 2014. RCHI director Lawrence J. Vale receives book award from International Planning History Society for “Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities”.
July, 2014. RCHI team-Lawrence Vale, Shomon Shamsuddin, Annemarie Gray & Kassie Bertumen publish “What Affordable Housing Should Afford:Housing for Resilient Cities” in Cityscapes
July,2014. RCHI team member Kian Goh publishes a blog post “Banda Aceh, 10 Years Post-Tsunami ” about her research trip to Banda Aceh, Indonesia to examine housing reconstruction ten years after the tsunami.