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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

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

Faculty Fellow David Gouverneur

Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania

Urban Development

Fellow Rose Molokoane

National Coordinator, South African Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP)

Urban Development

Scholar Arthur Acolin

Associate Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization + 1

Fellow Aromar Revi

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

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Fellow Chandan Deuskar

Urban Development Consultant, The World Bank

Urban Development

Cover of Slums

Book April 13, 2016 Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Eugénie L. Birch Shahana Chattaraj Susan Wachter Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

Article April 13, 2016 Rehousing Mumbai: Formalizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment Planners and economists usually consider land encumbered by slums to be less efficient, with inadequate physical infrastructure services, and fragmented land ownership. Housing State & Local Finance

Fellow Janice Perlman

President, The Mega-Cities Project, Inc.

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

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

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

Scholar Christian Krohn-Hansen

Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Urban Development

Image of Gilles Duranton, teaching and looking at a smart board

Faculty Fellow Gilles Duranton

Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, Real Estate, The Wharton School

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

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