We are delighted that David Sanderson from the University of New South Wales has joined our university as a Collaborating Professor. A few weeks ago, our students attended David’s course…
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“We need to understand that the fight against climate change needs to be connected to the fight for social justice,” our guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde told us in a conversation,…
A new short film featured at Citylab captures the striking scenes of skyscrapers encroaching on farmers amid China’s rapid urbanization. This is what urban sprawl looks like in many south…
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…
TV Interview with Isabelle Anguelovski on environmental justice for the development of neighborhoods
Environmental justice, as studied in a variety of disciplines, is most often associated with addressing a certain population’s disproportionate exposure to pollution, contamination, and toxic sites. But environmental justice is…
Nowadays, significant urban transformations of the new century are taking place in the developing world: How spaces of poverty are governed? How new theories of poverty shape interventions –especially those…
“The slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawl of San Diego” Architect and urbanist Teddy Cruz looks for clues to the ‘city of the future’ in the…