2019 LCAU Seed Grants Explore Equitable Resilience

The 2019 LCAU Seed Grant has been awarded to three interdisciplinary teams lead by Professor Lawrence Vale, Assistant Professor Justin Steil, Associate Professor Miho Mazereeuw and Associate Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal. Each of their proposals explore issues of equity and resilience in urban planning and design, tackling diverse topics and geographies from disaster and displacement within the U.S., to environmental-induced displacement in Chennai and Kerala, to the informalization of formal housing projects in the Global South. 

Image: Breezy Point, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2012 (Credit: Ryan Courtade, FEMA)