Magda Maaoui

About Magda Maaoui

Dr. Maaoui explores the housing production cycle from start to finish: as the consequence of regulation and policy, an act of design and construction, and a catalyst for neighborhood health and environmental outcomes. She contrasts this long-exposure research between neighborhoods of the Global North and South, comparing coalitions and results.

Areas of Expertise

Housing, Land Use Planning and Governance, Food Systems, Community Health and Safety, Environmental Planning and Resource Management

Selected Publications

with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki and Sophia Wedeen (2024). \Rental Deserts, Segregation, and Zoning\, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper. https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-areas/working-papers/rental-deserts-segregation-and-zoning, with Lance Freeman (2022). “Inclusionary Zoning in New York and Paris: Trojan horse or Antidote to Gentrification?”, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper. https://www.lincolninst.edu/es/publications/working-papers/inclusionary-zoning-in-new-york-paris, with Rosalie Singerman Ray (2022). \Beyond the Grands Chantiers: Mapping the Deliberative System of Transport Governance in Paris\. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0(0). DOI: 10.1177/0739456X211066557 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X211066557?journalCode=jpea, (2021). \The SRU Law, twenty years later: evaluating the legacy of France’s most important social housing program\, Housing Studies, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1941790 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2021.1941790

Recent Courses Taught

Core Urban Planning Studio , Do No Harm: Dilemmas in Planning For Health
Lessons from Elsewhere: Housing in Global Perspective