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HMUI Co-director Lizabeth Cohen new book, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (2020) is due out in paperback on November 17th 2020. UC Santa Barbara, Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4-5 pm (PT) Event...

HMUI Co-director Lizabeth Cohen publishes op-eds in The New York Times: States Are in Crisis. Why Won't Trump Help? (April 29, 2020) & Only Washington Can Solve the Nation's Housing Crisis (July 10, 2019); as well as The Lessons of the Great Depression...

HMUI Co-director Eve Blau publishes new article “Pedagogy and Politics: Making Place and Learning from Las Vegas,” in Eyes that Saw, Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, editors. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020.

HMUI Co-Director Eve Blau publishes article on the Urban Intermedia project: “Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative,” in Ways of Knowing Cities, Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley, editors, New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (CBAC)...

FUNDING FOR URBAN RESEARCH GRANTS AVAILABLE DEADLINE: January 4, 2021 The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) invites applications for grants to support research projects with an urban focus, ideally with an interdisciplinary approach. Projects might...

HMUI Co-director Bruno Carvalho publishes op-eds in The New York Times on the threats of climate change and the potentials of bioeconomies in the urbanizing Amazonian basin (10/2/2020); on the war on drugs, state violence, and racism in the Americas (06...

The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative aims to foster scholarship and disseminate knowledge connected to the understanding of cities and urbanization processes across the globe. We bring together multiple perspectives to address fundamental questions about...