Marty Chen, co-founder of the WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) network, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and affiliated professor at the Harvard Graduate...

Nora Libertun de Duren is an urban development and housing expert at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), where she leads research activities in urban issues. Nora has comprehensive research and...

Luís M. A. Bettencourt is the Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago. He is also a Professor of Ecology and Evolution at...

David is Secretary General of the Global New Car Assessment Programme, a UK charity serving as a platform for co-operation among NCAPs worldwide. Davis is also Senior Fellow at the...

A seminar led by Luiz Senna, who present on the key issues driving changes that impact the implementation of sustainable transportation. Cities in the XXI century are the result of...

Professor Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founding co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research,...

Bob Buckley is an Affiliated Scholar at the Urban Institute.  Between 2008 and 2016 he was the Julian Studley Fellow at the New School and Managing Director at the Rockefeller...

Is big infrastructure compatible with equitable approaches to urban transformation? Based on two case studies of urban infrastructure and service provision policies in Brazil, this seminar will explore the difficulty...

Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala is Co-Head of Labs at Sidewalk Labs. Previously, he headed the sustainability practice at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consulting firm that serves city governments. He is...

Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company, was founded on the belief that digital technology will change in cities dramatically, and that if technology is developed with a deep understanding of cities,...

One of the most exciting developments in urban sustainability research and policy in recent years has been the emergence of ‘ecohacking’. Beginning around 5 years ago, we’ve witnessed the emergence...

Cities across the global south are in a bind. As they absorb more residents, providing access to core services like housing and energy—already a challenge—is getting even harder. Policymakers are...

Brian Arbogast is a Director of Global Development for Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He leads the foundation’s effort to bring groundbreaking innovations...

Jon Kher Kaw is a Senior Urban Development Specialist with the Social, Urban, Resilience and Rural Global Practice at the World Bank Group, based in Washington, DC. He brings with...

Given that 40-70% of cities have people working and living in informality the inability of existing instruments to address their needs aspirations and impact of their invisibility of their lives...

By 2050 the world population is expected to reach 10 billion people, with 70-80% living in urban areas. At the same time, the availability of natural capital is becoming a...

Professor Pieterse is an urban scholar, writer and creative agent whose interests include the theory and practice of interventions and imaginaries to make the Southern city more just, open and...

Annette Kim of the University of South California gives a seminar as part of the World Resources Report on Cities Research Seminar Series. Even in centrally planned cities, informal markets...

Arturo Ardila-Gomez is Global Lead for Urban Mobility and a Lead Transport Economist and in the World Bank’s Transport and ICT Global Practice. He oversees a portfolio of transport projects...

Dr. David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization. He is also a visiting...

Dr. Robert McDonald is Lead Scientist for the Global Cities program at The Nature Conservancy. He researches the impact and dependences of cities on the natural world, and help direct...

Jenna Davis is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering & Science, and the Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute of the Environment, both of Stanford University. With a background...

Bipasha Baruah is the Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, and associate professor of women’s studies and feminist research at Western University, Canada. Dr. Baruah conducts innovative interdisciplinary research...

The presentation focuses on how community driven city-wide slum upgrading and housing development is an important process in solving urban poverty, slums growth, illegal squatting, inequality and unhealthy living conditions...

For the first time in the history of Homo sapiens, we are primarily an urban species: more than half of us live in towns or cities. By 2050, the world’s...

Martin Ravallion, Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics at Georgetown University, talks about growth, urbanization, and poverty.

Weiping Wu, Professor and Chair, Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University talks about China's Urban Transformation answering the following 5 questions: What is China's urban challenge? ; How...