Vadim Rossman
Vadim Rossman is a professor at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg.
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Rowan Fraser
Rowan Fraser is an urban development and management specialist, focusing on urban resilience. He works in countries across Asia.
In favour of direct aid for cities
Opening Asian cities up to foreign knowledge workers
Waterline is rising on environmental risks threatening Bangkok's MRT
Drew Reed
Drew Reed is a writer and sustainable transportation advocate. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is a graduate student in urban planning at the University of Buenos Aires.
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 3
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 2
The unbuilding of informal Buenos Aires, part 1
Henrik Valeur
Henrik Valeur is a Danish architect-urbanist based in Copenhagen. His work is available at http://www.henrikvaleur.dk .
Taking the car out of Corbusier
The future of urban transit at the Indian Institute of Science
The health costs of motorised transportation in (Indian) cities
Zoe Green
Zoe Green is a senior planning consultant with Atkins Ltd, with experience in policy and masterplanning projects for both private and public sector clients internationally, and sits on a number of committees for the UK Royal Town Planning Institute.
The curtailing of London’s creative economy
Unlocking the prosperity of the UK's core cities
Royal Docks: a third international business district for London?
Kristen Teutonico
Kristen Teutonico received a Master of Architecture at Parsons The New School for Design and recently completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Mumbai. She has remained abroad to continue her work as an architect, educator and researcher, working on projects that seek to understand urban development in India.
Kumbh Mela: the world's largest pop-up city
How Mumbai can make plans it may actually implement
Marcus Tudehope
With a background in urban planning and community organizing, Marcus Tudehope has been involved in the advocacy of the homeless in Western Australia, informal settlers in the Philippines, rural community development projects in South India, and now urban rights and housing in Phnom Penh.
Mapping the urban poor: why you should conduct enumerations
A harm reduction approach to homelessness
Hope in the lowliest of Manila's slums
Mukta Naik
Mukta Naik is an architect and urban planner, working with Delhi-based micro Home Solutions. She is currently a Fellow with the Future Institute and is researching issues related to housing of low-income migrants in Indian cities.
How urbanists and activists can make urban spaces safe for women
How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality?
Samuel Burke
Samuel Burke recently completed the MSc in The City at the University of Edinburgh and now works as a freelance writer and researcher in Berlin. He is currently resident researcher for Bomb Gallery, an artistic collective with the aim of establishing a temporary international art space in the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina.
From the whitewash of memory to the light of peace
Stari Most, the symbol of Bosnia: from ethnic division to reconstruction
Zach Hyman
Zach Hyman is a Fulbright scholar conducting research into the dynamics of grassroots innovation of agricultural machinery and its changing role across China. He blogs at Square Inch Anthropology (http://squareinchanthro.com) and tweets @SqInchAnthro.
How China's rural machinery also adapts to urban life
How do you maintain a business when you work on the streets?
Flavie Halais
Flavie Halais (@flaviehalais) is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker in Montreal. She is currently conducting research on the impact of mega-events in Brazil.
Last samba in Rio: sanitising the Olympic city's historic port
Medellín: an urban facelift that's more than skin deep
Shock therapy: the pacification of Rio de Janeiro's favelas
Martha Bridegam
Martha Bridegam is a lawyer and writer in San Francisco with a history of volunteer advocacy for informally housed city residents. She tweets @mbridegam.
Demonstrating the dignity of informal US housing
The criminalisation of homelessness and informal settlements in US cities
America's informal settlements: the campers of San Francisco
Sebastian Schulz
Sebastian Schulz holds an MSc in Urban and Regional Planing Management and works as an urban planner and GIS analyst at BUP in Dusseldorf. He is involved in several national and international planning projects with his main research focus on China's urban development.
Planning in Baghdad: how conflict shaped the city
From pancakes to clusters: why Shanghai needs fiscal decentralisation
The daily challenges facing Shanghai's 'floating population'
Daniel London
Daniel London serves as research coordinator for Benjamin Barber's upcoming book <em>If Mayors Ruled the World</em>. He received his MA in History at the City University of New York, where he taught urban history and researched the role of public space in turn-of-the-century progressive politics. He has also contributed on a variety of public history projects, including curatorial assistance on exhibitions and books at the Museum of the City of New York. He may be reached via dlondongc@gmail.com .
Can we still learn from a selective reading of history?
Diversity is not enough: a historically-informed call for civic unity
How today's urban reformers should learn from history
Cara Courage
An arts and architecture consultant, cultural placemaker and tactical urbanism PhD student, resident in Brighton for 19 years. http://www.caracourage.net . Photo: Rob Orchard
How Brighton supports its artists working informally
Matthieu Floret-Scheide
Matthieu Floret-Scheide is currently undertaking a master's degree in political science and urban studies at the University of Vienna, having completed undergraduate studies in history, sociology and anthropology in Paris.
... meanwhile in Skopje
Oli Mould
Oli Mould is a lecturer in human geography with a passion for researching and writing about the creative practices of cities--both those that contribute to capitalist accumulation and those that seek to resist it. He blogs at http://taCity.co.uk .
Temporary initiatives need a permanent place in urban creativity
The death and life of Jane Jacobs critiques
Ranking 'Creative Cities': an exercise in futility?
Anna Leidreiter
Anna Leidreiter is Policy Officer - Climate and Energy at the World Future Council Foundation in Hamburg, which aims to place the interests of future generations at the centre of policy making.
Circular metabolism: turning regenerative cities into reality
Sustainable is not enough: a call for regenerative cities
Andrew Fleming
Andrew Fleming (Twitter: @AndrewSFleming) works as the Senior Researcher at the Cape Town Partnership, a non-profit company dedicated to the coordination and promotion of urban development in Cape Town.
How do residents rebuild after a shack fire?
Partial housing solutions: one step forward or one step back?
Crossed wires in Cape Town: how communication breaks down
Mike Duff
Mike Duff (Twitter: @MrMikeDuff) is a consultant on strategy, planning and sustainability for cities at WSP, based in London. He is part of the Harvard Working Group for Sustainable Cities, and a guest lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and the London School of Economics Cities Programme. His opinions are his own.
Cycling in the Caribbean: how stakeholders can clash over the same agenda
London Conferences on Food and Cities
How cities can embrace urban agriculture
James Patterson-Waterston
James Patterson-Waterston is a consultant on strategy, urban planning and development at Happold Consulting, with a particular focus on projects in China and central Asia. He was formerly a researcher on sustainable development in western China at the University of Cambridge, where he continues to be affiliated to the Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit. His opinions are his own.
NSIPs: Another dent in the UK's localism agenda?
Chinese development goes west, but is it the western Chinese who benefit?
Tanya Gallo
A freelance writer, researcher and consultant on contemporary urbanism, with specific research interests including public space and the public realm, and community-based participatory planning. Before completing the MSc in Urbanisation and Development at the London School of Economics, she was the recipient of the Revson Fellowship at Columbia University and was the founder and director of DreamYard's ACTION project, an arts and social justice program for teenagers in Bronx, New York.
How can we reimagine public space in Beirut?
The creation of polarised space: Martyrs' Square, Beirut
Post-war reconstruction sowing new divisions in Beirut
Michele Acuto
Michele Acuto is CPD Research Fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School, PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, and Contributing Editor for the Diplomatic Courier
Rumour has it that Dubai has collapsed...
The C40 putting cities at the centre of global climate action
Timeyin Uwejamomere
Timeyin Uwejamomere is Senior Policy Analyst for urban water and sanitation services and current Country Representative for Nigeria at WaterAid.
Lead agencies need to refocus on water and sanitation for slums
Anne Hofhuis
Anne Hofhuis is an urban planner specializing in participatory planning within deprived communities. Anne is currently applying GIS and cartography techniques within Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem.
Humanitarian responses to discriminatory planning in Jerusalem
Kris Hartley
Kris Hartley is an independent consultant and researcher focusing on economic policy, urban planning, and governance innovation in Asia. He is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore and holds a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. His work is available at www.krishartley.com
Sheep bytes: New Zealand’s secondary cities can be a model for creative revival
Smart cities and the plight of cultural authenticity
Bronwyn Kotzen
Bronwyn Kotzen is a qualified architect, and urban researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), a Wits University affiliate. She holds an MSc in City Design and Social Science with distinction from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. Her work in both academia and practice, focuses on the interstices between governance, informality and the built environment in rapidly developing urban African centres. She can be contacted on bronwynkotzen@gmail.com.
The Ordinary City: Reimagining Urban African Governance and Planning
Edad Mercier
Edad Mercier is a graduate of Urban History at Harvard College and the MSc in Urbanisation and Development at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include post-conflict emergency relief, gender-responsive infrastructural planning, and socioeconomic development in the Caribbean and Latin America.
It takes a village: building the Renaissance Project in Haiti
Haiti, Ayiti: challenges and opportunities in the social divide
Kerwin Datu
Kerwin Datu is editor-in-chief of The Global Urbanist.