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GMS students Tahir de Noronha and Emma Goh, together with Aaditee K. Shankar (PhD Student in City and Regional Planning), are organizing a graduate conference, “Planning Beyond the State,” to be held on 2–3 May 2026. The conference convenes three panels—Planning Beyond Boundaries, Planning Outside of Government, and Planning and the Technopolitics of ‘Asian’ Infrastructures.…

Taesoo Song, a GMS DE student and doctoral student in City & Regional Planning, will be joining the faculty of Virginia Tech (Arlington campus) next year as an Assistant Professor in the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Program. Congratulations, Taesoo!

GMS Faculty Affiliate Yan Long (Sociology) has won the Joseph Levinson Book prize (China, post-1900) for her recently-published book Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China.

Michael Nylan along with co-author Thomas Hahn has published a new book Environmental Equity in China and Beyond: Past, Present, and Future February 19, 2026.

Loïc Wacquant has a new book. The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty was published July 2, 2025

GMS faculty affiliate and Assistant Professor at Haas Nick Tsivanidis has launched the IGC Cities Spatial Model. The model helps policymakers understand how various infrastructure investments and policy decisions affect the spatial distribution of people, firms, and economic activity in a city. By capturing key equilibrium effects, it supports better planning and policy design to…

GMS Alum Jennifer Tucker (Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning, University of New Mexico) has recently published Outlaw Capital, an ethnography of the contraband economy in Ciudade del Este, Paraguay.

The GMS Annual Report for the 2024-2025 Academic Year is now available here.

GMS is hosting an exciting set of research presentations on urban themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives this fall, in collaboration with partner departments. Link to GMS Fall 2025 Events Poster.