Valerie E. Stahl, PH.D.

I am an Assistant Professor of City Planning at San Diego State University. My mixed-methods research focuses on housing, zoning, and place-based public health disparities. My scholarship is concerned with how to facilitate inclusive plans and policies for vulnerable and historically excluded residents in U.S. cities. 

 

My work has appeared in Housing Policy Debate, Cancer Causes and Control, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER), in a volume I co-edited for Routledge, and Metropolitics, as well as in popular media, including ABC News, KPBS, Arc Magazine, The Atlantic Cities, and Slate. 

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Previously, I was an Assistant Curator at the Center for Architecture, and have also worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law. I hold a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from a Columbia University, a master's in Urban Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, and a BA in Social and Cultural Analysis and Romance Languages from New York University.