Research and Impact

For the last 20 years, the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies has continuously provided support for research, training, and scholarship for the benefit of students, faculty, and community members who have demonstrated an interest in issues in planning and design addressed by Clarence S. Stein as well as his works. This has helped in the development of resources that enable dissemination of information on the works of Stein and augment his legacy both in planning theory and practice. The result has been a trove of important research on modernist planning ideas and Stein projects, as well as workshops and other educational activities that have helped preserve and enhance Stein's work — both built and theoretical.

The Stein Institute has helped more than 800 students and faculty members and more than 10 independent organizations around the world by awarding grants for furthering research, community outreach, and supporting discussions on progressive design and planning through lectures, colloquia, and training workshops. Some of the previous grant recipients and the research topics for which awards were granted by the institute are listed below.

Past Projects

Explore projects funded by the Clarence Stein Institute over the last 15 years through this interactive database or this text-only version of the database. (Note: No longer updated.)

Previous Award Recipients
 

• 2023–24 Awards
  • Najeh Marwan Abduljalil: Research for Change SCNY
  • Kanji Fateema: "The Impact of Ride Hailing Services on Urban Mobility in Dhaka, Bangladesh"
  • Dingkun Hu: "Enhancing Digital Twins for Planning and Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of Using UAV 3D Modeling to Rebuild Fort Myers Beach, Florida"
  • Su Jeong Jo: "Sustainable Planning for Local Decline: Three Case Studies in South Korea"
  • Yousuf Mahid: "A Critical Assissment of the Knowledge Production and Implications of Nature-based Solutions: A Social-Just Pathway for Climate Adaptation and Land Conservation Planning in Bangledesh"
  • Carlos Arturo Lopez Ortiz: "Moving up or down the ladder? Disentangling the effects of slum upgrading on social mobility in global South cities"
  • Adish Arun Parkar: "Living Waters — Pune" 
  • Julia Spande: "Broken Thermometers, Whole Communitites: Understanding Community Heat Resilience in Marseille"
  • Andrea Rocio Urbina: "One Landlord and Thousands of Tenants: Corporate Landlords in Latin-America"
  • Antonio Moya-Latorre: "Celebratory Insurgency: The Art of Peripheral City-Making"
  • Professor Liu: "C. Stein's Planning Impact on Modern China through Liang Sicheng and the Tsinghua School"
  • Asya Ece Uzmay: "Building with Scarcity: Rethinking Environmental Futures in Times of Urgency"
• 2022–23 Awards

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stein Institute did not advertise and awards were limited

  • Michael Moynihan: "Aggregative Expertise: SIPROVI and the afterlives of Clarence Stein's Investment Housing in Mexico, 1973—1982"
  • Euna Kim: "Imaging Alternatives from the Visions of Clarence Stein: Searching for New Possibilities of Long-Term Affordable Housing from the idea of 'Investment Housing'"
  • Jennifer  Minner: "The Wasted Imagination: How City Landscapes Can be Remade"
• 2021–22 Awards

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stein Institute did not advertise and awards were limited

  • Sara Bronin: Research related to Stein's work
  • Dietrich Bouma: "Enabling Aspirations to Stay in the Face of Climate Change"
  • Suzanne Charles: "Financialization 3.0: Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Post-crisis Financialization of Housing in the United States and the European Union"
  • Ziyan Xu: "A Comparison of bike lane condition and distribution equity in New York and Shanghai" 
• 2020–21 Awards

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Stein Institute did not advertise and awards were limited

  • Jennifer Minner: Just Places Lab
  • Isaac Robb: Support for the applied research of Tim Dehm during the summer of 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio
• 2019–20 Awards
  • Sean Becker: "Driving Municipal Land Control: How Law and Land Regulated One Another in Greater Los Angeles, 1900—1945"
  • Onam Bisht: "Flood Mitigation on Coney Island"
  • Jeffrey Chusid: Produced the first known exhibition of Joseph Allen Stein's work
  • Thomas Campanella: "Book of Moses"
  • Thomas Campanella: "The Freedom of the City" 
  • Peter Ekman: "Timing the Future Metropolis: Planning, Knowledge, and Disavowal in America's Postwar Urbanism"
  • Elizabeth Fabis: "Design Connect Case Studies and Impacts: The First Decade (2008—2018)"
  • Bernadette Hanlon: "Equity Planning and the New 21st Century Metropolis: Learning from the Works of Clarence Stein and Paul Davidoff"
  • Jihany Hassun: "Design Connect Case Studies and Impacts: The First Decade (2008—2018)"
  • Linus Kafka: "Further historic designation of the Orchard River Garden Park"
  • Cleary Larkin: "Stein and Bartholomew: The idealist and the technocrat"
  • Kristen Larsen: "Design for Community Resilience — The Legacy of Henry Wright"
  • Daniel London: "On What Grounds: Real Estate and the Public Costs of Metropolitan Growth in New York City, 1880—1940"
  • Samantha Matuke: Research of Pedestrian Malls
  • Mary Woods/Vani Subramanian: "Shifting Frames: Migrants and Movie Theaters in India"
• 2018–19 Awards
  • Merav Argov: "Lathrop — The Human Scale as a Space Holder for Equitable Renewal"
  • Fatmah M. Behbehani: "The Planning and Social Implications of Morocco's New Town Experiment"
  • Rial Carver: "A beautiful day in these neighborhoods: variations in access to school, food, and healthcare in neighborhoods along an urban to rural gradient"
  • Alan Hess: "Irvine: A Study of its Architecture and Planning"
  • Sara Jacobs: "Warren Manning's Regionalism and the Progressive Environment Ethic"
  • Divya Subramanian: "Global Townscape: The Rediscovery of Urban Life in the Late Twentieth Century"
  • Lizabeth Wardzinski: "Model of Modern Planning: The TVA and the University of North Carolina's Department of City and Regional Planning"
  • Judith Wasserman: "Preserving Modernism at the Urban Core: A Case Study of the Decline and Resurrection of Lawrence Halprin's Manhattan Square Park in Rochester, NY"
  • Dorothy Fue Wong: "Implementing HABS/HALS/CRIGIS for the Stein Garden Cities" 
• 2016–17 Awards
  • Charles Giraudet: "The Architecture of health of Isadore Rosenfield"
  • Elizabeth Kancilia: "Faux Painting Your Way to Wealth: Exploring the Palatial Fantasies of Suburban Homeowners in Brevard County, Florida"
  • Jeremy Kane: "Experimental Designs: The Empirical Works of Henry Wright"
  • Michael McGandy: "Saving US Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America"
  • Erin McKellar: "Tomorrow on Display: American and British Housing Exhibitions, 1940–1955"
  • Whitten Overby: "The Seekers: Pursuits of American Domestic Utopias, 1981201"
  • Ken Reardon: "The Davidoff Tapes Research Project"
  • Andrew Rumbach: "Bringing Stein back in: Regional planning, growth and equity in the 21st century American west" 
  • Xiaozhong Sun: "Incorporating 'Garden City' with Innovation Economy: Open Spaces, Urban Density, Diversity, and Dynamic Distribution of Innovation Jobs within Neighborhoods of New York City"
  • Suzanne Charles: "70 Acres in Chicago: Film Screening and Panel Discussion"