Jeremy Wolin

Jeremy Lee Wolin is a scholar of the built environment focused on historic intersections between architecture and planning, state policy, and social movements. His current book project, Cities After Civil Rights: Designing Minority Citizenship in the Post-Renewal United States, chronicles the built legacy of Black, Asian, Latine, and Indigenous organizers who worked within Great Society urban programs. The book reveals how the spaces these efforts left behind—daycares, social service centers, community-based schools, cooperative housing developments, and neighborhood health clinics—shaped a new “minority citizenship” inherently vulnerable to the trends of decentralization, privatization, and retrenchment that have shaped urban policy ever since. As part of this project, he is developing a digital index of historic sites rooted in the War on Poverty.

He is also at work on a second book project, Model Minority Urbanism, which examines how the “ethnic enclave” has operated within urban planning from the nineteenth century to the present. His research has been supported by the Princeton Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, the Bentley Historical Library, and the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies.

PhD, Architecture, Princeton University

AB, American Studies, Brown University

BFA, Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design

“‘The Finest Immigration Station in the World,’” in Sick Architecture, ed. Beatriz Colomina with Nick Axel and Guillermo S. Arsuaga, MIT Press, 2025.

“Marshall Plan or Neocolonization?: The Model Cities Program and Black Planning Criticism,” Planning Perspectives. Vol. 39 Iss. 1, 2024.

“The Shifting Architecture of Racialization: Locating the Korean Corner Store,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians roundtable on Asian American and Pacific Islander Architectural Histories, ed. Gail Dubrow, Sean McPherson, & Alice Tseng. Vol. 83 No. 1, 2024.