Topic Urbanism

Illustration of a gathering of people holding a rainbow ribbon

Excerpt: Cape Town Pride; Cape Town Shame, by Carla Sutherland

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Sep 29, 2020

FBI Building in Washington DC

The Ugliest Building in Washington: Students navigate federal pressures and local values in rethinking FBI site

In late July 2020, Congress could not reach a compromise on a new coronavirus relief…

Sep 21, 2020

Indigenous people of Borneo

A Guidebook to an Empty Land: When the Indonesian government relocates its capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, will Indigenous life there be erased?

“When an area is empty, there’s a desire to fill it in—it’s the colonizing mindset,”…

Sep 16, 2020

Drawing of people sitting on the scales of justice

Excerpt: Justice that Serves People, Not Institutions, by Mirna D. Goransky

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Sep 15, 2020

Detailed axonometric view of buildings near East River

Michael Samuelian, Instructor

Spring 2020

Cover page for KREATE

Urban Planning Students Place at APA National Student Design Competition

In a first for the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a group of urban planning…

Sep 8, 2020

Illustration of person casting voting ballot

Excerpt: Karachi and the Paralysis of Imagination, by Mahim Maher

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Sep 8, 2020

Illustration of a small collection of houses

Excerpt: A Just City is Inconceivable Without a Just Society, by Marcelo Lopes de Souza

“Five years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City…

Sep 1, 2020

Public Lecture Series

Nov 19, 2020

07:30PM – 09:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Department of Landscape Architecture

Open to the public, but requires registration

Aerial view of the city of Cairo, Egypt.

Public Lecture Series

Oct 22, 2020

06:30PM – 08:00PM

GSD, Gund Hall Virtual Event Space

Lecture

Open to the public, but requires registration