Research Expertise and Interest

urban spatial politics, ecological design, environmental hazards of climate change, Affordable housing, shared equity housing, manufactured housing, adaptation to flooding

Research Description

Zachary Lamb is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research focuses on the role of urban planning and design in shaping uneven vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change.

Dr. Lamb's first book is The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis (MIT Press 2024). The book, coauthored with Dr. Lawrence Vale, presents a framework for equity-focused urban climate change adaptation, illustrated through twelve global case studies. He has ongoing research on the relationship between flood infrastructure, urbanization, and the production of uneven climate change risk in two river delta cities, Dhaka, Bangladesh and New Orleans. 

Dr. Lamb is also researching the relationship between property regimes and climate change adaptation in manufactured home parks in California and across the USA. 

After completing his PhD in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, Professor Lamb was a Princeton Mellon Fellow in Urbanism and the Environment.