Laura Humm Delgado is an urban planning scholar and former practitioner.  She received a Master in City Planning and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she previously worked for the City of Boston researching affordable housing, homeownership, land use, and abandoned properties.  Her research focuses on housing and community development, including the role of community-based organizations and public agencies, in U.S. cities.  Her most recent research looks at public libraries and how they draw on community resources to facilitate immigrant integration at the neighborhood level.  Previously, her research has addressed the foreclosure crisis, gentrification, and homelessness.  She has experience teaching housing and community development, research methods, urban planning history and theory, and GIS at MIT and Boston University.  As a teacher, she values discussion-based classes and encourages students to incorporate experiential learning into their coursework.

curriculum vitae

• Delgado, L. H. (2023). Creating welcoming spaces: How immigrant-led cultural programs shape public libraries and the communities they serve. Journal of Urban Affairs, January, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2150199.
• Williams, D., L. Delgado, N. Cameron, and J. Steil. (2023). The properties of whiteness: Land use regulation and anti-racist futures. Journal of the American Planning Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2022.2144930.
• Steil, J. P., & Delgado, L. H. (2019). Limits of diversity: Jane Jacobs, the Just City, and anti-subordination. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 91, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2018.06.017.
• Steil, J., & Delgado, L. (2019). Contested values: How Jim Crow segregation ordinances redefined property rights. In N. M. Davidson & G. Tewari (Eds.), Global perspectives on urban law: The legal power of cities (pp. 7-26). Routledge.
  

• "Make Way for Families: How Gentrification Shapes Social Services for Older Adults," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2023.
• "Organizational Displacement and Mission Drift: How Social Service Providers Adapt to Gentrification," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, virtual, October 2021.
• "Branching Out: Public Libraries, Immigrants, and Community Resources," Global Vantage Point Lecture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, February 2021.
• "Community-driven Programming: How Neighborhoods Shape Immigrant Resources," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, virtual, October 2020.
• “Branching Out into Immigrant Neighborhoods: How Public Libraries Distribute Community Resources to Meet Immigrant Needs,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Greenville, SC, October 24, 2019.
• “Public Libraries and Immigrants: How Library Branches Adapt to Neighborhood Change,” Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 27, 2019.
• “Using Data-Driven Tools to Address Foreclosures and Distressed Properties in Boston, Massachusetts,” Remaking America for the 21st Century Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2012.
• “A Debate on Incremental Housing: Can an Old Answer Be the New Solution for How to Best Rebuild Haiti?” (co-organizer), UN Habitat: World Urban Forum V, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2010.