Our visiting faculty member Reena Tiwari was recently featured by cultural geographer Kevin S. Fox from Connecticut on his hour-long radio program Geographical Imaginations, “brief expeditions into the geographies of…
UN-Habitat, in collaboration with Kenya’s Ministry of Land, Housing & Urban Development: Urban Development Department is calling on students from around the world to participate in a student design competition…
Following the success of their Global Urban Lectures debut in 2014, our partner UN-Habitat has launched its third season of free online lectures by leading experts in the field of…
Disasters happen all the time. We can’t always prevent them from happening, but disaster risk reduction efforts can limit the scale of devastation. Launched this Tuesday to coincide with the…
This year the Curry Stone Design Prize has been awarded to Rural Urban Frameword (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit research and design firm that is working to help recover and…
We are proud to announce that our co-director Carmen Mendoza has been invited to speak at the 1st Public Spaces International Congress at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do…
The IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) has announced the release of their updated edition of the landmark publication Shelter After Disaster by Ian Davis originally…
Our faculty member Kathrin Golda-Pongratz’s recently published Landscapes of Pressure is a finalist in this year’s FAD Awards in the Critical Thinking category. Based on the conviction that contemporary politics…
Next Monday at 12pm we welcome scholar Aditya Kumar, who will be give an open lecture on community based planning in managing disaster reconstruction, post-war reconstruction and slum upgrading. Kumar…