Elihu Rubin is an architectural historian, urban planner, and documentary filmmaker. He is associate professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale where he teaches the urban design studio at the Yale School of Architecture and the lecture course American Architecture and Urbanism in Yale College.
Rubin is co-founder of the documentary film company American Beat, which focuses on urban social history and cultural landscapes. Elihu directs the Yale Urban Media Project, a New Haven-based public scholarship initiative, and serves as director of advocacy and planning at the Yale Urban Design Workshop. He is the author of Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape, winner of Best Book awards from the Society of American City and Regional Planning History and the Urban History Association.
At MacDowell, he worked on a book manuscript entitled Ghost Town: The Urban History of an American Icon.
