Urban Planning Strategies for Sustainable Development Speaker Series

*This is the latter half of ENV 831: Urban Planning Strategies for Sustainable Development. The first portion of the class is just for students enrolled in the course, while the second portion is open to the Yale community!

Please join us to hear from urban planners, architects, and academics on topics ranging from human-centered urbanism, to tactical urbanism, to nature-based urban resilience! A new guest lecturer will join us each week. See schedule below:


Sept 11 - Nicholas Klein, Cornell University, Car-Centric Urbanism
Sept 18 - Audrey Nazelle, Imperial College London, Healthy and Active Streets
Sept 25 - Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects, Human-Centered Urbanism
Oct 2 - Dajoin Williams and Anthony La, National Zoning Atlas, Mapping Zoning Codes
Oct 9 - Emily Talen, University of Chicago, Rethinking Land Use
Oct 23 - Washington Fajardo, Ex-Secretary of Urban Planning, Rio de Janeiro & Inter-American Development Bank, Informal Urbanism
Oct 30 - Mike Lydon, Street Plans, Tactical Urbanism
Nov 6 - Carlos Cadena, EAFIT University, Columbia, Social Transformation through Urbanism
Nov 13 - Julia Hopkins, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Nature-Based Urban Resilience

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