Elihu Rubin, an city research scholar who has pushed innovation within the educating, examine, and improvement of options that profit cities worldwide, was just lately appointed the Henry Hart Rice Affiliate Professor of Structure and City research, efficient July 1.
He’s a school member at Yale College of Structure and has a secondary appointment within the American Research program in Yale’s College of Arts and Sciences.
As a scholar, Rubin has centered on the constructed environments of American cities and the dynamics of city change. His guide “Insuring the Metropolis: The Prudential Middle and the Postwar City Panorama” (Yale College Press, 2012) acquired Greatest E-book awards from the City Historical past Affiliation and the Society for American Metropolis and Regional Planning Historical past (SACRPH).
Rubin’s analysis on the historical past and idea of city planning, historic preservation, collective reminiscence practices, and important heritage are subjects in his present guide venture, “Ghost City: The City Historical past of an American Icon.” In Fall 2024, Rubin is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship.
Rubin teaches each graduate and undergraduate college students, together with the required Core IV City Design studio for M.Arch I college students within the Yale College of Structure and a big lecture class on American Structure and Urbanism for Yale School.
He has engaged in educating collaborations like Design Brigade wherein college students deal with a design drawback for an area group. Rubin has served as mentor to graduate and undergraduate college students in a variety of educational packages, and he has helped lead the City Research main as its Director of Undergraduate Research. He acquired the King Lui Wu Educating Award from the Yale College of Structure in 2020.
In his seminars and lecture programs, Rubin has made community-based educating a trademark of his efforts as an educator. College students are launched to folks and locations in New Haven and create research-based assignments in collaboration with native organizations which can be shared-back in public settings just like the New Haven Free Public Library.
His ongoing digital humanities venture, the New Haven Constructing Archive, collects tons of of examples of pupil analysis about native buildings and invitations the general public to contribute their very own recollections and impressions.
Rubin’s analysis initiative, the Yale City Media Challenge amplifies these efforts at community-engaged analysis and public scholarship. They’ve included Interactive Crown Road, New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails, the publication of the New Haven Constructing Newsprint, and a sustained engagement with native efforts to resuscitate the Goffe Road Armory.
Rubin is college director of Advocacy and Planning on the Yale City Design Workshop, the place he has been actively engaged with neighborhood planning efforts with the Better Dwight Growth Company.
He earned a Grasp of Metropolis Planning diploma and a Ph.D. within the Historical past of Structure and Urbanism from the College of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale.
