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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.

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements (Routledge, 2024) examines the intersection of race and the built environment in what is now known as southeastern Nigeria.

Sur Urbano, the podcast created by the GMS Latin American Cities student group and hosted by GMS and DCRP student Isabel Peñaranda Currie, had incredible reach on streaming platform Spotify this year. The podcast was in the top 5% most shared podcasts on Spotify, in the top 10% most followed podcasts, heard in 39 countries, and […]

Check out Zachary Levenson’s new book Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City  available now from Oxford University Press. Levenson’s comparative ethnography is based upon a decade of participant observation fieldwork at two land occupations in Cape Town. The book proposes a relational theory of the state that will appeal to scholars who work […]

  Congratulations to GMS Faculty Affiliates Stephen Collier and Kenichi Soga who have been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for Smart & Connected Communities with Professor Emerita Louise Comfort.     Project Abstract The exponential increase in extreme events over the last decade compels new methods of managing risk in communities exposed to recurring natural hazards. […]

Former GMS Co-Director Alison Post has been awarded an Edward Teller National Fellowship by the Hoover Institution’s Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program. The program allows outstanding scholars from colleges, universities, and institutions around the world to be freed from academic and professional responsibilities to devote one year to unrestricted, creative research and publication. National Fellows Program […]

We would like to announce a new book talk series going forward for GMS Faculty Affiliates who are in book disciplines. GMS will be hosting interdisciplinary book talks for faculty affiliates soon after books on urban issues are released. Interested faculty members should contact one of the GMS Co-Directors as your book’s release approaches. We […]