Eran Ben-Joseph

Eran Ben-Joseph is the Class of 1922 Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eran served as Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT from 2013 to 2020. Eran's research and teaching areas include urban and physical design, standards and regulations, sustainable site planning technologies and urban retrofitting.

He 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, ReThinking a Lot and New Industrial Urbanism. 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 Barcelona, Santiago, Tokyo, Torino, Boston, Biloxi and Washington DC among other places.

Eran holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and a graduate and Master degree from Chiba National University of Japan.

For updated information about current research projects and teaching see: https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/eran-ben-joseph