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Fellow María Alicia Becdach

Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Publication May 18, 2020 Planning and the Politics of Informal Urbanization Over a billion people worldwide live in informal settlements (or “slums”), according to the United Nations. Informal urbanization persists partly because of informal politics. My dissertation examines the relationships between informal politics, urban planning, and informal urban growth. Chandan Deuskar Rapid Urbanization

Publication April 17, 2020 Parks and Trees are Public Health Measures My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape history and contemporary landscape architecture in the Western World. Early park designers knew that incorporating parks and nature into cities is a public health measure with beneficial psychological and physical effects. Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Urban Transportation Systems Are Essential Transportation connects us to activities, to family, to services and to opportunities. With 95 percent of the U.S. under stay-at-home orders, urban public transportation demand and trip activity has evaporated. Megan Ryerson Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Zhongjie Lin

Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

Publication January 28, 2020 Cities and the Young Cities matter. They account for 80 percent of global output, with the level of urbanization positively correlated with the level of economic development and quality of life. Kyung-Hwan Kim Urban Development

Publication January 28, 2020 We Are Not Ready for Climate Change There is a whole new history in the making: How will cities address the overwhelming surge in the recognition of climate change? Saskia Sassen Climate Change & Resilience

Scholar James Kwame Mensah

Associate Professor of Public Administration and Sustainable Development, University of Ghana Business School

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Emerging Scholar Ariadna Reyes-Sánchez

Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Planning, The University of Texas at Arlington

Urban Development

Article February 19, 2019 Cities’ Role in Climate Governance and Global Policy: A Dispatch from the Urban20 Jocelyn Perry and William Burke-White write about climate change and ask "who are the champions... and of what?" William Burke-White Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Allison Lassiter

Assistant Professor

Climate Change & Resilience

Emerging Scholar Sisi Liang

Associate Professor, Tsinghua University of China Vice Dean, School of Architecture

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Publication July 24, 2018 Gaps Assessment on APEC Energy Efficiency and Conservation Work toward Fulfilling the Leaders’ Energy Intensity Reduction Goal Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Simon Richter

Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of German, Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Chair, Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies

Climate Change & Resilience

Research Paper February 7, 2018 The Ecological Wisdom of Plan-Making Frederick Steiner Climate Change & Resilience

Research Paper February 7, 2018 Hotspot Cities: Identifying Peri-Urban Conflict Zones in the World’s Biodiversity Hotspots Chieh Huang Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard Zuzanna Drozdz Naxi Dong Climate Change & Resilience

Research Paper September 29, 2016 Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works? Lance Freeman Jenny Schuetz, Housing

Emerging Scholar Chaeri Kim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Simon Fraser University Research Lead, Natural Solutions Initiative, ACT-Action on Climate Team

Urban Development

Fellow Aromar Revi

Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Research Paper May 9, 2016 Educating Commercial Real Estate Brokers on Green Leasing / Energy Efficiency This project was sponsored by the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI), a program of the Department of Energy. CBEI was a five-year program tasked with bridging the technology, market dynamics, policy, and human behavior in order to reduce energy used by the commercial buildings sector. Susan Wachter State & Local Finance

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