Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory at the GSD, will give the keynote lectures at the upcoming Flexible City Symposium at Oxford University's Future of Cities Institute on 24 October, as well as at the upcoming Creative Time Summit in New York City on 25 October.
Lukas Pauer (MAUD '14) has been invited to speak on his work “Reclaiming Post-NAFTA Open Space: On the Electrical Transmission Corridors of Mexico City” at the Early Career Workshop of the Flexible City Symposium.
Before he delivered the JCHS John T. Dunlop Lecture on September 30, J. Ronald Terwilliger had pizza and discussion with 30 GSD and HKS students at a lunch sponsored by the Harvard Urban Planning Organization.
Bing Wang invited to Zhuhai, China to present as a domain expert by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China.
Since 2012, this project has been investigating how development organizations establish, and act on, priorities…
The Harvard Urban Planning Organization once again took part in Parking Day, an annual international event in which designers, activists, and ordinary citizens turn parking spaces into miniature parks. This year’s theme was “The Public Living Room.”
Silvia Benedito (assistant professor in landscape architecture), and Alexander Häusler (MArch II '04) of OFICINAA won 3rd prize in the international competition to design the Danube riverfront in the city of Ingolstadt, Germany.
GSD denizens represent a strong presence at the upcoming Buenos Aires Biennale: BienalBA. Inaki Abalos, Felipe Correa, Rahul Mehrotra and Jorge Silvetti are featured speakers, and Mehrotra has won the Bienal de Arquitectura Internacional award..
150 GSD students, alumni and friends gathered on a Brooklyn rooftop as the sun set over Manhattan in late July. GSD alumni hosted the cocktail reception at the New Lab, a Beta space facility in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that brings together design, prototyping and new manufacturing that incubates and encourages innovative work in a range of disciplines.
The UPD Department hosted its annual bus tour of Boston on September 7, led by Alex Krieger and Kathy Spiegelman, to introduce first year UPD students to the history of planning and development in the city.