Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Professor Urban Studies and Planning Cambridge, Massachusetts ebj@mit.edu Office: (617) 253-7305

Bio/Research

Professor Eran Ben-Joseph is the head of the Joint Program in City Design and Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published numerous articles, monographs, book chapters and authored and co-authored the books: Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities, Regulating Place: ...

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Bio/Research

Professor Eran Ben-Joseph is the head of the Joint Program in City Design and Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published numerous articles, monographs, book chapters and authored and co-authored the books: Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities, Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, The Code of the City, RENEW Town and ReThinking a Lot.

Eran worked as a city planner, urban designer and landscape architect in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States on projects including new towns and residential developments, streetscapes, stream restorations, and parks and recreation planning. He has led national and international multi-disciplinary projects in Singapore, Barcelona, Santiago, Tokyo and Washington DC among other places. Eran is the recipient of the Wade Award for his work on Representation of Places – a collaboration project with MIT Media Lab and the Milka Bliznakov Prize for his historical work on Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Chiba National University of Japan.



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