International Development

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Fellow Brian English
Founder and CEO, Origin Studio
Urban Development
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Fellow Janice Perlman
President, The Mega-Cities Project, Inc.
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
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Fellow Sameh Wahba
Regional Director for Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank
Climate Change & Resilience Anchor Institutions
Scholar Lawrence Vale
Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning;
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1
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Scholar Brent D. Ryan
Vice Provost and Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1
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Fellow Enrique Peñalosa
Independent Consultant Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia Author of Equality and the City
Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
Fellow Sheela Patel
Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3
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Fellow Joan Clos
Urban Affairs Consultant Former Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT)
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Faculty Fellow Domenic Vitiello
Professor of City Planning and Urban Studies, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
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Faculty Fellow Gilles Duranton
Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, Real Estate, The Wharton School
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3
Article April 10, 2013 How Philanthropy Responds to Critical Issues of Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing World In 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation’s one-hundredth year, we have been deeply analyzing the issues and strengths that defined our first century. Rapid Urbanization Anchor Institutions
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Book December 4, 2011 Global Downtowns Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. Marina Peterson Gary McDonough Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2009 Divided Cities Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. Jon Calame Esther Charlesworth Rapid Urbanization

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