Recipients of the Eleventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Metro do Porto by Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Acknowledging the transportation authority Metro do Porto Northeastern Urban Integration Project by the City of Medellín Acknowledging the government agency Empresa de Desarrollo…
The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious festival that occurs every twelve years at the…
by Somayeh Chitchian (MDes '13) Working from the broad cultural context implicit in Critical Conservation,…
Elise Baudon and Benjamin Scheerbarth (MUP’14) organized and moderated a panel discussion at Beyond Resilience: Actions Toward a Just Metropolis, the Planners Network annual national conference in New York on June 8. The panel explored the financing model and the social justice implications of post-Sandy recovery in New York City.
Anya Domlesky (MLA ‘14) and Martin Pavlinic (MLA ‘14) receive prize for Best GIS Project in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies.
GSD Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment presented “Urbanization in China: Process and Challenges."
Members of the MUP class of 2013—Holly Masek, James McNally, and Mica Wilson—won the top prize of the first Connect Historic Boston Public Art Ideas Contest.
On May 10, Felipe Correa (associate professor of urban design) moderated the Instrumentality of Design in the Latin American City during the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies advisory committee weekend in Santiago, Chile. The symposium brought together a multi-disciplinary group of Harvard faculty and speakers from throughout Latin America.
Nancy Slotnick writes in the Huffington Post blog that Jerold Kayden (professor of urban planning and design) “literally wrote the book on the POPS”—Publicly Owned Private Spaces—and that talking with him saved her business. Read about it in “How POPS Changed My Life.” Kayden is quoted in another recent Huff Post article “After Oklahoma Tornado, To Rebuild Or Not To Rebuild.”
A GSD team was selected from over 300 entries as finalists for the SixtyNine Seventy: The Spaces Between Urban Ideas Competition.