Janette Sadik-Khan, “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution”
If you can change the street, you can change the world. Streetfight discusses the transformative…
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John T. Dunlop Lecture: Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
How can real estate development and sustainable design be used to foster…
John T. Dunlop Lecture: Kimberly Dowdell, “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures”
How can real estate development and sustainable design be used to foster…
“Why We Cycle”: Documentary Film Screening & Panel Discussion
To the Dutch, cycling is as normal as breathing. They don’t think about…
Loreta Castro Reguera
Born in Mexico City in 1979, Loreta Castro Reguera MAUD ’10 studied…
HECTOR (Jae Shin & Damon Rich)
Hector is an urban design, planning & civic arts…
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Dilip Da Cunha, “The Invention of Rivers”
Separating land and water is not just an act of division; it…
The High Line: A Debate
Recognizing the High Line with a prize in urban design…
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize In Urban Design: The High Line
Please join us for two days of events in conjunction with the 2017…
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize In Urban Design: The High Line
Please join us for two days of events in conjunction with the 2017…
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Fritz Haeg, Nils Norman, and Julieta González
Please join us for a conversation between visual artists Fritz Haeg and…
Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture: PRACTICE: Outside In | Inside Out
This symposium considers discourse on contemporary issues of design practice in…
Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne is the Chief Design Officer for the city…
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Hannah Beachler with Jacqueline Stewart
Hannah Beachler is a prolific production designer with…
Ranjani Mazumdar, “The Cinematic Slum”
The slum has been a visual force in a number of city…
Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”
The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500…
“Territorializing the Urban, Urbanizing the Territory: New Research” Colloquium
How should we study the territorial dimensions of urbanization? In what ways are inherited territorial…
Harvard HouseZero Typology Symposium
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) retrofitted its headquarters, a…
Alumni Insights Lecture: Experiments in Global Design Practice: The VERITAS Adventure
Join us for a GSD Alumni Insights…
Reinier de Graaf, “Phantom Urbanism”
Once cities were designed to accommodate the masses; today the masses have…
The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction
Please join editors, Jeannette Sordi, Luis Valenzuela, and Felipe Vera for a…
Mark Joseph and Amy Khare, “Succeeding Where Mixed-Income Transformation Falls Short: A Path to Equity and Inclusion in Our Cities”
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Office…
Ken Yeang, “Ecoarchitecture and Ecomasterplanning: The Work of Ken Yeang”
Please join us for a lecture by…
GSD Talks: Richard Sennett, “The Open City”
Cities should open up opportunities, connect people to new people, free us from…
Exhibition Lecture: Rahul Mehrotra
As a point of entry and exit, a threshold has a dual…
2017 APA National Planning Conference GSD Alumni Reception
Join fellow alumni and colleagues during the American Planning Association 2017 National Planning Conference in…
Conversations on Public Art: Nato Thompson
How can public art and design practice remain socially engaged in a moment…
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Jonathan Franzen, “So Do We Just Give Up on Nature?”
Jonathan Franzen is the author of a series of novels that have been highly praised…
After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after…
Erik Swyngedouw, “Insurgent Architects and the Spectral Return of the Political in the Post-Democratic City”
“Since 2011, a seemingly endless proliferation of urban rebellions, sparked by a…
Mexico City at a Crossroads: Urban Challenges of the 21st Century – Keynote Address*
Keynote Address: Urban Challenges in an Era of Climate Change Mexico City’s…
Alumni Insights: The New Allure of the American City
American cities are experiencing a revival. There is a partial return of…
Mexican Cities Initiative: 2016 Summer Research Fellowship Program Presentation
The Mexican Cities Initiative Summer Research Fellowship has been established to fund innovative research on…
Mexican Cities Initiative: “Staying a Step Ahead: Institutional Flexibility in the Rehabilitation of Social Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico”
Officials from Fundación Hogares and the Mexican National Workers’ Housing Fund Institute (Infonavit) will join…
Conference: “Redefining Urban Design: Barcelona as Case Study”
The theme of this conference is the extent to which new, emerging…
Aga Khan Program Lecture: AbdouMaliq Simone, “Detachment Down South: On Salvage Operations and City-Making”
As a trope for divergent urbanism, the “Global South”—encompassing…
Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future
From the Civil War to the recent troubles in Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri is a…
Conference: “Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future”
Program and schedule in PDF…