About Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Dagen Bloom is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. His research analyzes long-term planning outcomes in essential urban systems such as subsidized housing and mass transportation. Bloom frequently joins panel discussions on issues of concern to planners, historians, architects, and the general public.Selected Publications
Book: The Great American Transit Disaster: Austerity, Autocentric Planning, and White Flight (University of Chicago Press, 2023) , Book (Co-editor): Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Shaped a City (Princeton University Press, 2015), Book: How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Book: Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)Recent Courses Taught
Introduction to PlanningTransportation Policy and Advocacy, Introduction to Housing
Nicholas Bloom
Professor & Director, Urban Planning Program