Lukas Pauer (MAUD '14) will publish the essay “Peak Sand: On the Limits of Resource Extraction Urbanisms in the Straits of Singapore” in the forthcoming Critical Planning 20: The Future, a graduate student-run publication of the UCLA Urban Planning Department.
Eve Blau lectured on Baku: Oil and Urbanism in Oslo on October 17.
Students in the first semester core planning studio got a helping hand from some of the top practitioners in the country on October 15. As part of the annual Big City Planning Directors Institute—co-sponsored by the American Planning Association, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, and the GSD—a group of directors participated in a mini-charrette session with first-year planning students.
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.
Michael Van Valkenburgh is featured in the November-December 2013 issue of Harvard Magazine.
Students who took part in Günther Vogt's fall 2012 studio option will be showcasing their work on alternative Urban Design futures in London from November 2 to November 5.
GSD alumni launch Manifest, a new American architecture and urbanism journal.
Sunggi Park (MArch ’14) was in Seoul, Korea, last week to accept first prize in an international competition sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
“Off-Modern: Ruins of the Future,” one of the special projects of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, includes work by Allen Sayegh and Rem Koolhaas.
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.