Eran Ben-Joseph, Hayes Career Development Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning. MIT. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and from Chiba National University of Japan. He is the founding principal of BNBJ (Blank & Ben Joseph), a multidisciplinary planning firm in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Eran has worked as an environmental planner and landscape architect in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Professional works include new towns and residential developments, streetscapes, stream restorations, parks, and recreation planning. His research and teaching interests are in site planning technologies, subdivision standards and regulations, and urban simulation. Eran’s research in site planning encompasses the emergence of new construction practices and field implementations, as well as computerized and tangible interfaces, which allow for visualization of site factors and development impacts. Research in the area of standards and regulations covers the relationships between infrastructure systems layouts, such as streets and wastewater, and cities’ physical development patterns and form. Eran Ben-Joseph is the recent recipient of the MIT Wade Award for his research work on Representation of Places: Urban Simulation and The Luminous Planning Table. He is the co-author of the book Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities (McGraw Hill, 1998).
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