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Claire Wigglesworth

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Claire (she/her) holds a bachelor's in Environmental Science and Public Policy with a specialization in urban planning. She is interested in housing and transportation planning to increase urban mobility and lower carbon footprint. Researching...

Wartime Disaster and Resurgence in Ukraine: Human and Spatial Dimensions

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Join three visiting Ukrainian scholars as they present their work on ways that Ukraine can begin to recover in terms of the built and natural landscape and on conflict resolution opportunities amid war-inflicted trauma. Discussant: Eve Blau, Co-Director...

Coptic Institutions and Development of the Egyptian Public Sphere (ca. 1900-1920)

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The Coptic Orthodox community constitutes the largest Christian community in the Middle East today and has historically played a central role in Egyptian society. Still, the socio-political and intellectual contributions of Copts remain scantly studied...

Everyday I’m Hustlin’: Pop Culture, Youth, and the African City

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Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences, African and African American Studies FRSEMR 721: Everyday I’m Hustlin’: Pop Culture, Youth, and the African City Course Instructor: Daniel Agbiboa Cities today face broad challenges ranging from public health...

Urban Transformations and Climate Change

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Urban Transformations and Climate Change Harvard GSD: SES-5447, Course ID: 220887 Course instructor: Hannah Teicher Term: Spring 2023 In an era of climate crisis and climate breakdown, the time for incremental planning has passed. This seminar will...

Gerald Frug

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Gerald Frug is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, he worked as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in...

Annie Simpson

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Annie Simpson is an artist and DDes candidate at the Harvard GSD. She works via sight-/site-based investigation to make videos, photographs, and essays. Her dissertation assesses ‘the planetary’ in spatial research through the unique, if curiously...

City of Memories – Mapping and Re-constructing Hyderabad’s Water Network

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The project is based in Hyderabad, a southeastern city in India with a six-hundred-year-old storm water management system – an asset under threat from rapid urbanization. Discontinuity in this network affects the most vulnerable in Hyderabad, with low...

Cities by Design

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Cities by Design Course Number: SES-5210 Semester: Fall 2021 Instructors: Peter Rowe, Rahul Mehrotra , Eve Blau , Joan Busquets, Farès el-Dahdah, Alex Krieger, Antoine Picon, Yun Fu Cities by Design is concerned with the in-depth longitudinal examination...

Quechua Hip-hop: A Musical Performance and Conversation on Indigenous Urban Movements with Liberato Kani

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Musical performance and conversation on Indigenous urban movements with Liberato Kani, Quechua hip-hop artist, and Jorge Luis Astovilca, a master of traditional Andean scissor dancing. Both the performance and conversation will offer an opportunity to...

On the Abstraction of Water: Mapping the Construction of Crisis

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This project employs a landscape-based approach to understand contemporary water crises created by large-scale infrastructure projects and their associated land use patterns. As climate change disrupts water cycles and exacerbates extremes of...

Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Phase 2 Has Started

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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...