One warning and one opportunity for long-term investors from the UN Habitat 3 conference
The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development convenes every two decades to debate human settlement and...
The power of story-telling in teaching
One of my PhD advisor’s most frequent recommendation is to tell a story when we start a talk. In our PhD Research Group meetings, he...
Calling for new urban planning visions and tools
Last week, Michael Mehaffy presented in our Habitat 3 class at Stanford. He called for new models and new urban planning tools to achieve...
Habitat 3 Diary: The General Assembly of Partners
On October 20th, 2016, the New Urban Agenda was officially adopted at the 3rd UN Habitat Conference in Quito, Ecuador. This conference...