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What role do planning and design play in a pandemic? Ann Forsyth reflects on COVID-19’s impact on the future of urban life

Over the past few days, normal life at Harvard has been upended by government, university,…

Mar 19, 2020

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Learning from Susan Fainstein: Do planners have a responsibility to fight for social equity?

Susan Fainstein’s ideas for the “just city” crystallized in the 1960s and ’70s, during a…

Dec 9, 2019

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Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration

To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…

Dec 5, 2019

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The Thinking Machine: Paola Sturla calls on designers to renew their commitment to humanism

Smart cities, search engines, autonomous vehicles: The pairing of massive data sets and self-learning algorithms…

Nov 22, 2019

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Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class

America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…

Oct 24, 2019

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