Eran Ben-Joseph

Dissertation: Subdivision Guidelines and Standards for Residential Streets and their Impact on Suburban Neighborhoods

Advisor: Michael Southworth

PhD Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley, 1995

MAgr Landscape Architecture, Chiba University, 1987

BA Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1982

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPresent 

• Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Dr. 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 Singapore, Barcelona, Santiago, Tokyo and Washington DC among other places.

Eran holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (PhD) and Chiba National University of Japan. Current Research: Health and the Aging Population,  Ecological Models of Development, Industrial Urbanism, Historical Neighborhood Planning, Mobility Infrastructure .