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In the coming months, we will be posing questions about Robert Caro’s The Power Broker to encourage re-engagement with this classic on urban politics and infrastructure! The 99% Invisible podcast (more below) provides a fun and easy way to re-engage with Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tome. Those who answer the following question correctly will win a […]

Professor Desiree Fields’ research on the financialization of housing in California and beyond was recently profiled by the Letters & Sciences Division.

Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City, co-authored by GMS alumna, Professor Malini Ranganathan, has been awarded the 2024 Anthony Leeds Book Award by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association. Book available here.

Gautam Bhan (GMS alumnus) has co-authored a book with Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse, titled Cities Rethought: A new urban disposition, published by Wiley. The book suggests that “we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them. To this end, it […]

The 2024 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize was awarded to GMS Affiliate faculty member Marta González (Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning). The award recognizes outstanding contributions relevant to the progress of complexity science.

GMS affiliated faculty and Sociology professor Loïc Wacquant has published a book.  Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist.

GMS is pleased to offer the two core courses for the Designated Emphasis this spring! GMS 200 / CEE254G, the gateway course for the DE, will be co-taught by Sai Balakrishnan (DCRP + GMS) and Alison Post (Political Science + GMS). GMS 201, the dissertation writing course, will be offered by Desiree Fields (Geography + […]

On October 1st, GMS core faculty member Alison Post spoke at a UN-Habitat + Carnegie Foundation consultation to inform the development of the UN-Habitat’s guidelines for People-Centered Smart Cities.

Please read the GMS Annual Report for Academic Year 2023-2024.