MIT World Speakers

Brian Ladd

Brian Ladd is an historian and former Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He holds a PhD from Yale University, and is the author of The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 (Harvard University Press, 1990), as well as several recent articles on East German urban planning. He is currently completing a documentary film on Berlin.