Zachary B. Lamb

Zachary Lamb an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on the role of urban planning and design in shaping uneven vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change. He has researched these issues in a variety of settings from post-Katrina New Orleans to Dhaka, Bangladesh to California mobile home parks.

His book, The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crises, is available from MIT Press. The book is co-authored with Dr. Lawrence J. Vale of MIT’s Resilient Cities Housing Initiative.

After earning a PhD from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning in 2018, Dr. Lamb was a Princeton Mellon Fellow in Urbanism and the Environment.