Susan Fainstein

A.B., Radcliffe, 1960; A.M., Boston University, 1962; Ph.D. M.I.T., 1971.

Professor Fainstein's teaching and research have focused on urban political economy, comparative urban public policy, planning and social theory, and urban redevelopment. Beginning in spring 2003 she will be the chair of the PhD committee for urban planning. Among her books are Urban Political Movements (Prentice-Hall, 1974), Restructuring the City (Longman, 1986), and The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York (University Press of Kansas, 2001). She is co-editor of Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World (Blackwell, 1992) and of two readers on planning theory and urban theory, also published by Blackwell, which recently appeared in new editions. She is co-editor of The Tourist City (Yale University Press, 1999) and the forthcoming Cities and Visitors (Blackwell). She publishes widely on a variety of subjects, including race and urban development in the United States, citizen participation, urban social movements, comparisons of urban policy in the United States and Western Europe, planning theory, the impact of technology and the new international division of labor on location, and the effect of national policies on the activities of US state and local governments.