UN-Habitat developed Urban October to raise awareness, promote participation, generate knowledge, and engage the international community towards the New Urban Agenda (NUA). This is GPEIG’s second Urban October event.

We ask our roundtable speakers: (1) How can multi-level governance enable climate action for cities? (2) What are the challenges and lessons learned from different world regions? (3) What can urban planning educators, researchers, and professionals do to facilitate climate change mitigation and adaptation?

Roundtable Speakers:

Ms. Anne Amin, Governance & Legislation Workstream coordinator, Policy, Legislation and Governance Section, UN-Habitat

Mr. Samuel Njuguna, National Officer on Urban Governance, Policy, Legislation and Governance Section, UN-Habitat

Mr. Nana-Yaw Andoh, PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dr. Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, Professor Emeritus, School of City & Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology

Convener:

GPEIG Co-chair: Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, associate professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

We are excited to present GPEIG Annual Newsletter 2022! This letter captures all GPEIG activities, and highlights some of the exciting work done in Global Planning across the world.

International students who will attend the 2022 ACSP Conference are invited to participate in a half-day, in-person workshop “International Students Flourishing in Planning Education in the U.S. and Canada” on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 2-5:30 pm at the ACSP Conference in Toronto, Ontario.

Deden Rukmana sat down with Bish Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning at MIT and co-founder of GPEIG, to learn more about his career in planning and hopes for international development.

How time flies! The new year of 2022 has arrived. As we celebrate another year of success in enhancing planning education across boundaries amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we reflect on our year 2021’s achievements.

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker is an assistant professor in urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Read more about Dr. Walker, her plans for GPEIG and the rest of GPEIG’s leadership.

The ACSP 2022 annual conference will be held from November 3-6 2022 in Toronto, Ontario. Keep visiting our website to learn more about the many GPEIG-sponsored events at ACSP, including the annual luncheon!

The International Planning Case Studies Project, a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Texas A&M University, has all-new cases to incorporate into your classroom. This free library of practitioner-developed cases includes teaching guidance, suggested readings, visual materials, and more.

Maria Atuesta Ortiz, who earned her PhD in Urban Planning from Harvard University, won the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation in International Planning. Read more about her work.

Andrew Wang, who earned his Doctor in Sustainable Urbanism from Washington University, won the 2021 Best Student Paper Award from GPEIG.