Bernard Frieden

During his thirty years of involvement with urban affairs at both the national and local level, Bernard J. Frieden served on White House advisory committees and worked as a consultant to numerous federal and state agencies. In addition to serving as director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard, he was director of research at MIT’s Center for Real Estate from 1985 to 1987. A prolific scholar, Frieden wrote eight books and more than 60 articles on housing and city development. Besides The Future of Old Neighborhoods, he is perhaps best known for three other books, published by the MIT Press: The Politics of Neglect: Urban Aid from Model Cities to Revenue Sharing (1975), co-authored with Marshall Kaplan; The Environmental Protection Hustle (1979); and Downtown, Inc. How America Rebuilds Cities (1990), co-authored with Lynne B. Sagalyn. Upon his retirement in 2002, a fellowship was created in his name that is awarded annually to an entering Master in City Planning student at MIT.