Topic Urbanism

Illustration of people between nature and city

Excerpt: Turning Migrant Workers into Citizens in Urbanizing China, by Pengfei Xie

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

Nov 10, 2020

Illustration of people crossing the street

Excerpt: Creating Universal Goals for Universal Growth, by Betsy Hodges

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

Nov 2, 2020

Ms. Faniyi amid carvings and décor of the New Sacred Art movement.Credit...Adolphus Opara for The New York Times

Sacred Groves and Secret Parks: An interview with Princess Adedoyin Talabi Faniyi and Moises Lino e Silva

The Graduate School of Design’s colloquium “Sacred Groves and Secret Parks”…

Oct 22, 2020

Illustration of community

Excerpt: Turning to the Flip Side, by Maruxa Cardama

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

Oct 22, 2020

The Just City Lab's Just City Fellowship and 7 participating mayors

Just City Lab collaborates with Mayors’ Institute on City Design to introduce inaugural MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship

Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City Lab announces, in collaboration with the Mayors’…

Oct 21, 2020

Image of Bryant Park

From Times Square to the Grand Central, Jerold S. Kayden leads New York Times architecture critic on a virtual walking tour of Midtown

Jerold S. Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, recently led…

Oct 19, 2020

Marcus Samuelsson

Excerpt: The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food by Marcus Samuelsson

Born in Ethiopia, raised and trained as a chef in Sweden, and now living and…

Oct 15, 2020

Illustration of a house under construction

Excerpt: Right to the City for All: A Manifesto for Social Justice in an Urban Century, by Lorena Zárate

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

Oct 14, 2020

Justin Rose active in Baltimore

Urban Planning alum Justin Rose on community organizing in Baltimore: “Often the people who hold the knowledge or insight that can unlock a creative solution are overlooked.”

Excerpted from the Harvard Gazette series, To…

Oct 14, 2020

Sol Camacho

Sol Camacho on the impact of the pandemic on design: “It feels like a completely different world.”

“I feel how much of a protagonist public space is in this moment we’re going…

Oct 7, 2020