We recently caught up with former student Noel Sampson (1984), an architect from Nicaragua who completed our program as a Mundus Urbano student in 2013. Since graduating, Noel has worked…
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Before delving into the specifics of topics covered in our program such as emergency shelter or slum upgrading, it’s important to look at the big picture. How does the practice…
“In terms of access to housing and right to the city, the question is, how do you help poor people access enough power to lay claim to space?” This week…
Former student Dana Barqawi asks this question in a recent article in which she advocates for planning cities rather than camps, as a much-needed long-term approach to housing refugees. It’s…
The World Bank has just released its 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals, containing over 150 maps and data visualizations that chart the progress societies are making towards the 17…
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…
If there’s one thing we can learn from International Women’s Day which took place last week on March 8th, it’s that we shouldn’t limit our celebration of women to one…
Situated at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and development, our master program seeks to reclaim the social commitment implicit in spatial practices, training a new generation of architects to…
We are excited to announce the second edition of our Development by Design conference, an event series organized in collaboration with Roca and conceived by our master program to highlight…
The final draft of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), a 20-year roadmap to sustainable urban development agreed upon at the Habitat III conference in Quito last week, features the word…