We recently caught up with former student Walker Toma (1986), a former land use economist from Berkeley, California who completed our program in 2017. After completing his internship with UN-Habitat…
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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…
Last Thursday at the second session of our Development by Design: Dialogues in Architecture, Equity and Design we welcomed post-disaster expert Dan Lewis to talk about Resilience in Development, or…
This Thursday Oct. 31st, UN-Habitat and Guardian Cities will inaugurate the first World Cities Day in celebration of sustainable urban development. The event, hosted by Shanghai Municipality in the PRC…
UN-Habitat, one of our collaborating institutions, has launched a series of free online lectures by leading experts in the field of sustainable urban development. Recruited from UN-Habitat’s partners as well…
A competition launched by UN-Habitat seeks to make monolithic mass housing more socially, economically, environmentally and culturally sustainable areas. In the face of rapid urbanization during the second half of…
The flourishing capital of Mongolia is brimming with opportunities as it faces the challenge to improve the living conditions of slum dwellers affected by the severe Mongolian winter. Our student…
In this series, students document their experiences during the internships in 2012. Scattered across the globe, they are reporting from places like Haiti, South America, Africa, Mongolia and Japan. ————————————…
In a recent report from UN-Habitat, the organization announced that it is expanding its ties with the academic world in the area of urban risk reduction and rehabilitation so that…