In Dallas, a real estate developer and his colleagues are grappling with the perplexing question of how to revitalize a sprawling, vacant industrial complex. On December 16th, students in Professor Richard Peiser’s Field Studies in Real Estate course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design offered these professionals support by presenting a number of innovative ideas for the site.
The American Planning Association - Massachusetts Chapter (APA-MA) has awarded Student Project Awards to two plans created by Harvard University Graduate School of Design studios.
The Rockefeller Foundation initiative 100 Resilient Cities announced yesterday that Santiago, Chile, has just made the cut. Out of 330 applications, Santiago—nominated and submitted by a team of Harvard University Graduate School of Design students and alumni—was selected as a site to "become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century."
In recognition for their innovative app for congestion, Audi has named Jose Castillo, design critic in urban planning and design (MArch '95, DDes '00), and his team the winner of the Audi Urban Future Award in Mexico City.
Alex Krieger (MCP '77), professor in practice of urban design and principle at NBBJ, was a keynote speaker at the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCAR) World Congress in Gdynia, Poland, in September.
The Social Agency Lab is a multidisciplinary research group. Its mission is to study “the way in which individuals, institutions and organizations shape social outcomes in cities.” It features work done by research assistants and students who are conducting a thesis.
At the end of the 2013–2014 academic year, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s urban planning students met to elect officers for the Harvard Urban Planning Organization (HUPO), a club devoted to the academic and professional development of individuals who work with the built environment.
From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities to forestry regimes to larger ecosystem and…
Jacob Koch’s (MUP ’15) summer job brought him face to face with a long-brewing crisis: the depletion and pollution of drinking water in São Paulo, Brazil.
Examining urban heat vulnerability, assistant professor of urban planning Joyce Klein Rosenthal recently published “Intra-Urban Vulnerability to Heat-Related Mortality in New York City” in the journal Health and Place.
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