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Vinit Mukhija, UC Los Angeles

Professor,
Urban Planning
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Vinit Mukhija is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on housing and the built environment. He is known for his scholarship on cities and the informal economy, affordable housing and urban design, and the redevelopment and upgrading of informal housing. It spans informal housing and slums in developing countries and “Third World-like” housing conditions (including colonias, unpermitted trailer parks, and illegal garage apartments) in the United States. He is particularly interested in understanding the nature and necessity of informal housing and strategies for upgrading and improving living conditions in unregulated housing. His work also examines how planners and urban designers in the Global South and the Global North can learn from each other and the everyday city. He is the former chair of the Department of Urban Planning and has a courtesy appointment in Asian American Studies at UCLA. He is leading the Department of Urban Planning’s efforts to develop a new, one-year self-supporting graduate professional degree program in real estate development, which will situate real estate development pedagogy within a broader framework of urban policy, institutions, politics, equity, and design. Mukhija is the author of Remaking the American Dream (MIT Press, 2022—winner of the 2023 Environmental Design Research Association’s (EDRA) Great Places Award for the best book); and Squatters as Developers? (Routledge (paperback edition), 2017), and the coeditor of Just Urban Design (MIT Press, 2022); and The Informal American City (MIT Press, 2014).

Email: vmukhija@ucla.edu
Website: https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/vinit-mukhija
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