Bernard Frieden

A member of the planning faculty at MIT from 1961 to 2002, Bernard Frieden was a planner who wrote extensively on housing and city development. In addition to being the Ford Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, he was director of research at MIT’s Center for Real Estate from 1985 to 1987, served as chair of the MIT faculty from 1987 to 1989, and was associate dean of the school from 1993 to 2001. During his 30 years of involvement with urban affairs at both the national and local level, he served on several White House advisory committees and was a consultant to numerous federal and state agencies. A prolific scholar, Frieden wrote numerous books including The Future of Old Neighborhoods, The Politics of Neglect: Urban Aid from Model Cities to Revenue Sharing (co-authored with Marshall Kaplan), and Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities (co-authored with Lynne Sagalyn).