Professor Michael H. Lang 

       

Michael H. Lang  is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies and Community Planning at the Camden College of Arts and Science at Rutgers University. Educated at London School of Economics and Political Science, he is author of the following books and chapters on urban housing issues: Gentrification Amid Urban Decline: Strategies for America's Older Cities [Ballinger, 1982], Homelessness Amid Affluence: Structure and Paradox in America's Political Economy [Praeger, 1989], and "Gentrification" in Housing: Symbol, Structure, Site, Lisa Taylor, Ed., [Rizzoli, N.Y. 1990]. 

He has also written extensively on the history of garden cities, notably "International Influences on Urban Design: The Impact of the Aesthetics of British Guild Socialism on Yorkship Village in Camden, NJ" Vol. 15 No. 1., 1993, Planning History and "Yorkship Garden Village: Progressive Expression of the Housing and Planning Reform Movement" in Planning the American City: History, Practice and Prospects [The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996] and Designing Utopia : John Ruskin's Urban Vision for Britain and America. [Black Rose Books, 1999]. He regularly offers a major course entitled: "Utopia: the Art, Architecture and Urban Design of Visionary Communities". 

His work on Garden Cities has received support from the Rutgers University Research Council, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the American Institute of Architects and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been a guest lecturer at a number of institutions including Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lang was recently featured for his work in New Urbanism, in Focus, the Rutgers University Faculty and Staff Newspaper. Click HERE to read this article. 

His recent papers include: "Capital City as Garden City; the Planning of Post-Revolutionary Moscow", the International Planning History Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1996 and "The Survival of a Ruskinian Arts and Crafts Community at Arden, Delaware", with Natasha O. Tursi, the Sixth International Communal Studies Association Conference, July, 1998. His paper, with Natasha Tursi, entitled "The Three Plans of Arden" was presented at the fall 1999 meeting of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, in Washington D.C. 

Professor Lang offers the core courses in the Department's City Planning component. His recent course offerings include three completely new courses: an honors seminar on the city entitled: "Edge Cities for Tomorrow" another honors course entitled "Habitats for Tomorrow; Reimagining the City", and an International Studies course on city planning that includes a trip to the Russian cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow [spring 2000]. 

 
                 Midnight in Moscow 

Professor Michael Lang
856-225-6070
mlang@crab.rutgers.edu

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