Publications

BOOKS

Lamb, Zachary, and Lawrence Vale. The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Zachary Lamb and Lawrence Vale. “A Neighborhood Unit for Equitable Resilience.” Built Environment. 2024.

Rehman, Nida, Aparna Parikh, Zachary Lamb, Shruti Syal, D. Asher Ghertner, Siddharth Menon, Nausheen Anwar, Hira Nabi, Waqas Butt, and Malini Ranganathan. “South Asian Urban Climates: Towards Pluralistic Narratives and Expanded Lexicons.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2023.

Lamb, Zachary, and Luna Khirfan. “Against Climate Haussmannization: Transformation Through and in Urban Design:” Journal of Planning Literature (June 24, 2022).

Lamb, Zachary, Linda Shi, and Jason Spicer. “Why Do Planners Overlook Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities as Sources of Affordable Housing and Climate Transformation?” Journal of the American Planning Association (June 21, 2022).

Lamb, Zachary, Linda Shi, Stephanie Silva, and Jason Spicer. “Resident-Owned Resilience: Can Cooperative Land Ownership Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation for Manufactured Housing Communities?” Housing Policy Debate (February 17, 2022).

Lamb, Zachary. “COVID-19, Climate Change, and Cooperative Adaptation.” Berkeley Planning Journal, 2021.

Lamb, Zachary. “The Politics of Designing with Nature: Reflections from New Orleans and Dhaka.” Socio-Ecological Practice Research (June 18, 2019).

Lamb, Zachary, and Lawrence J. Vale. “From the Cold War to the Warmed Globe: Planning, Design-Policy Entrepreneurism, and the Crises of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change.” Planning Perspectives 34, no. 3 (May 4, 2019): 463–95.

Shi, Linda, Zachary Lamb, Xi (Colleen) Qiu, Hongru Cai, and Lawrence Vale. “Promises and Perils of Collective Land Tenure in Promoting Urban Resilience: Learning from China’s Urban Villages.” Habitat International 77 (July 1, 2018): 1–11.

Clouse, Carey, and Zachary Lamb. “The Batture Effect.” Landscape Journal 36, no. 1 (2017). 1–13.

Anguelovski, Isabelle, Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Daniel Gallagher, Kian Goh, Zachary Lamb, Kara Reeve, and Hannah Teicher. “Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and South.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 36, no. 3 (2016): 333–48.

Clouse, Carey, and Zachary Lamb. “Post-Crisis: Embracing Public Service Architecture With Humility.” Journal of Architectural Education 67, no. 2 (2013): 186–94.

Clouse, Carey, and Zachary Lamb. “Design-Build and Community Advocacy: Teaching to Broaden the Design Profession. ii. Vol. 1. Spring 2013.

Chapin, Mac, Zachary Lamb, and Bill Threlkeld. “Mapping Indigenous Lands.” Annual Review of Anthropology 34 (2005): 619–38.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Lamb, Zachary. “Remaking Urban Design for Climate Resilience.” In The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice, edited by Michael Larice. Routledge, In Review.

Lamb, Zachary. “Connecting the Dots: The Origins, Evolutions, and Implications of the Map That Changed Post-Katrina Recovery Planning in New Orleans.” In Louisiana’s Response to Extreme Weather, edited by Shirley Laska. Springer, 2019.

Lamb, Zachary, and Lawrence J Vale. “Pursuing Resilient Urban Design: Equitably Merging Green and Gray Strategies.” In The New Companion to Urban Design, edited by Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, 371–84. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Lamb, Zachary. “Urban Emergency.” In Farming Cuba: Urban Agriculture From the Ground Up, by Carey Clouse, 1 edition. New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.

OTHER WRITING

Lamb, Zachary and Robert Olshansky. “Bayshore Urbanism: Property and Climate Change Adaptation on San Francisco Bay.” White Paper. Next10. 2024.

Lamb, Zachary. “Book Review: The Great Padma: The Epic River That Made the Bengal Delta.” Journal of Architectural Education. 2024.

Qi, Isabel and Zachary Lamb. “Adapting Bay Areas: Climate Change Adaptation in California and China’s Greater Bay Area.” Memorandum for the California-China Climate Change Initiative. 2024.  

Lamb, Zachary. “Book Review: Blue Architecture: Water, Design, and Environmental Futures.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 2023.

Lamb, Zachary and Andrea Brennan with VOLUME Editors. “Timeline: Key Movements in Environmentally-Focused Architecture and Design.” Volume. 2023.

Gandelsonas, Mario, Meredith TenHoor, Zachary Lamb, Robert Freudenberg, “The Meadowlands: A Climate Park.” High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, 2023.

Lamb, Zachary, Jason Spicer, and Linda Shi. “Debunking Stereotypes about Mobile Homes Could Make Them a New Face of Affordable Housing.” The Conversation, July 28, 2022.

Lamb, Zachary. “Remaking Design for Equitable Resilience.”Equitable Resilience, MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, 2022.

Lamb, Zachary. “Book Review: Low Country at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina.” Geographical Review 112, no. 2 (March 15, 2022): 306–8.

Lamb, Zachary, and Todd Vachon. “Working for a Just Adaptation.” POWER: Infrastructure in America, February 6, 2020.

Lamb, Zachary. “Book Review: My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 111–12.

Lamb, Zachary. “From New Orleans to Dhaka: When Climate Change Adaptation Hurts the Poor.” Dhaka Tribune. August 27, 2016.

Lamb, Zachary. “Transforming Dhaka into a More Equitable City.” Dhaka Tribune. September 3, 2016.

Lamb, Zachary. “Outside the Walls: Flood Vulnerability and the Paradoxes of Protection at the Edges of New Orleans.” Natural Hazards Observer 39, no. 4 (March 2015): 22–27.

Brennan, Andrea, and Zachary Lamb. “GAG: Green Architecture Guide.” Volume, December 2008.

Thomas, Roxane, and Zachary Lamb. “Scientific Perspectives on a Watershed Approach to Compensatory Mitigation.” National Wetlands Newsletter 26 (2004): 17–20.

Bernstein, Tobie, and Zachary Lamb. “Building Healthy, High Performance Schools: A Review of Selected State and Local Initiatives.” Washington, D.C.: Environmental Law Institute, 2003.

Lamb, Zachary, William Berson, and Patricia McIntosh. “Marsh Hammocks: Ecological Refuge or Developers’ Last Resort?” Panorama, August 2001.