Susan Fainstein

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Susan Saltzman Fainstein (born 1938 ) is an American urban sociologist .

Life

Susan Saltzman studied Political Science at Harvard University (AB), African Studies at Boston University (MA) and received her PhD in Political Science from MIT . She is married to the urban planning scientist Norman I. Fainstein .

Fainstein's research focus is on the distribution effects of publicly planned or funded urban development projects. She has a theory of "friendly city" (the city just) designed the book to was published of 2010.

Fainstein worked as a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and as a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University , where she supervised a variety of dissertations. She went to the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2006 and finished teaching there in 2012.

Fainstein has published over a hundred journal articles and essays in edited volumes. She has made guest stays at the University of Amsterdam , Witwatersrand University , the University of London , Cleveland State University , New York University , Queens University (Canada) , University of British Columbia and the National University of Singapore . She was co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Ethnic and Racial Studies . She worked as a consultant in various public urban development projects.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Norman I. Fainstein: Urban Political Movements: The Search for Power by Minority Groups in American Cities . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974 ISBN 9780139393303 .
  • with Norman I. Fainstein; Richard Child Hill; Dennis Judd; Michael P. Smith: Restructuring the City: the Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment . New York: Longman, 1983 ISBN 9780582282933 .
  • Urban Economic Development and the Transformation of Planning in the United States and Great Britain . Piscataway, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1990
  • The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers. 1994 ISBN 9780631182436
  • The Just City . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010
  • with Dennis J. Judd (Ed.): The Tourist City . Yale University Press 1999, ISBN 978-0-300-07846-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan Fainstein , at Harvard Graduate School of Design
  2. ↑ Bloustein School's Graduate Program in Public Policy , at Rutgers (as of 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Fainstein, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fainstein, Susan S .; Saltzman Fainstein, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American urban sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938