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This volume locates housing at the center of urban thinking today. The short essays, case studies, and roundtable conversations featured throughout Housing+ position housing as inextricably linked to urbanity and the pursuit of more desirable standards of living for all. Housing+ investigates how all facets of urbanity are implicated in the making of sustainably designed affordable housing. It draws on the experiences of 32 scholars, designers, and practicing professionals working across the fields of architecture, urban design, planning, and policymaking to situate the eponymous ""+"" as a harbinger of dialogue between scales, across space, and through time. Offered as a record of MIT's Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's third biennial conference, Housing+ offers exclusive insight into the projects that have defined the work of scholars and practitioners leading housing innovation across the fields of planning, policy, and urban and architectural design. The shorts essays, case studies, and roundtable conversations featured throughout the volume draw housing of out of isolation and positions it at the center of urban thinking today. Its consolidation of generations of work into a single, authoritative volume is of particular interest to those working on housing at the intersections of fabrication, community and partnership building, typology design, infrastructure, urban planning, placemaking, and participatory design.

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Ad le Naud Santos, FAIA, is an architect and planner whose career combines professional practice, research, and teaching. Her work is widely known for design excellence. Ms. Santos has won international design competitions, published work in journals world-wide, and has worked in cultures as diverse as Japan, Africa, and the United States. Ms. Santos takes a holistic approach to architecture, supported by her belief that people need more from the built environment than accommodation of functional requirements. Her architecture seeks to create environments that satisfy the human spirit. Her belief that architecture be socially, as well as contextually, responsible can be seen in all of her projects, and particularly in her design of housing, a subject to which she has devoted much recent professional and academic effort. In her more than thirty years of practice she has been involved in the construction of hundreds of dwelling units on four continents. Ms. Santos is a leader who is able to guide group efforts. She has developed communication styles that convey complex architectural ideas in a manner easily understood by clients and community groups, enabling her to cross cultural barriers. Her academic career includes professorships within the graduate programs of Harvard, Rice University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as Chairman of the Department of Architecture and the University of California, where she was founding dean of the School of Architecture at UCSD. She was the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT from 2004-2014. Ad le Naud Santos received her architectural degree from the Architectural Association in London and holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

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