Susan Fainstein

Professor in Urban Planning, GSD
HKS Adjunct Faculty
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox NR
79 JFK Street
Contact
Phone: 617-495-9901
Fax: 617-496-1292
Email: susan_fainstein@harvard.edu
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Profile

Susan Fainstein is a Professor of Planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She has also taught at Columbia and Rutgers Universities and been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Witwatersrand. Her teaching and research have focused on comparative urban public policy, planning theory, and urban redevelopment. Among her books are The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York; Restructuring the City; and Urban Political Movements. She has coedited volumes on urban tourism (The Tourist City and Cities and Visitors), gender and planning, planning theory, and urban theory. She is currently working on a book relating theories of justice to urban development. She is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Planning Educator Award of the Association of American Schools of Planning. She received her AB from Harvard, AM from Boston University, and her PhD from M.I.T.

 

Courses

Fall

  • HUT-209 Histories and Theories of Urban Planning Interventions

Spring