Lara Belkind

Lara Belkind is an architect and urban planner completing a PhD at Harvard University, and is a lecturer with Columbia University’s “Shape of Two Cities” program. Her research examines infrastructure as a site of conflict and negotiation in contemporary Paris. She was recently a visiting fellow at Sciences Po, has taught urban theory and design at the Architectural Association in London, at Yale and at Harvard, and has worked professionally creating large-scale urban redevelopment strategies with public agencies in New York and Washington, DC. Her publications have appeared in Political Power & Social Theory, TDSR, Urbanism & Urbanization and Writing Cities.