Lizzie Yarina

Lizzie Yarina is an assistant professor of architecture at Northeastern University, and affiliate faculty with the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Global Asian Studies.

Her scholarship focuses on the spatial politics of climate change adaptation and regional planning. Her current book project, Leaky Plans, examines the technical tools planners use to represent risks and regions in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The project draws on spatial ethnography to consider how the gaps between representation and reality shape the terms through which climate change adaptation occurs. Lizzie holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT, where her doctoral research was supported by a Fulbright-Hays award, and a joint Masters in Architecture and City Planning from MIT.