Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD)

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What is the role of the design academy in dealing with today’s challenges — urbanization, climate change, biodiversity loss, and population growth?[read more]

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Harvard University Graduate School of Design has organized a two-day symposium that seeks to change the lens through which we look at infrastructure and cities. Instead of viewing infrastructure as simply the domain of civil engineers and transportation planners and something that needs to be centrally planned and administered, the focus will shift to the role many design disciplines can play and the power of ecological systems to address the many challenges facing cities, including climate change, carbon and nitrogen pollution, and migrating populations.[read more]

This post was originally published on The Dirt. Nina-Marie Lister, MCIP, RPP, Affiliate ASLA, is Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at Ryerson University, and Visiting Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). She is a contributor to “Ecological Urbanism” and...[read more]