This year’s Lewis Mumford Lecture was held on Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 6 pm. Emily Badger is a staff writer with The New York Times, covering cities and urban policy. She is particularly interested in housing, transportation, and inequality — and how they’re all connected. Prior to joining the Times in 2016, she wrote
Associate Professor and Director of the J. Max Bond Center For Urban Futures Shawn Rickenbacker and Adjunct Lecturer Héctor Tarrido-Picart’s research project was recently profiled in The RICC, the Research and Innovation at CCNY Ezine. The Harlem Small Business Initiative is an interdisciplinary research project from CCNY that tries to understand and communicate the factors
Assistant Professor Zihao Zhang is among the 49 faculty members named as 2023 CUNY Career Success Fellows from 21 schools in the City University of New York system. As powerful influencers of students, faculty are given Career Success Fellowships to implement effective methods of helping students understand the relationship between classroom learning and careers that can be adapted to
The student work of the SSA Fall 2022 advanced design studio entitled “National Care: Abortion Access, Reproductive Justice on Federal Land” was recently featured by Architect’s Newspaper in an editorial article by Marianela D’Aprile. The studio, instructed by Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Harkema, was part of an inter-institutional collaboration with similar studios taught at Syracuse
This special lecture was held on 03/23/23 and was co-sponsored by the UN Highlevel Water Conference in New York. Carola Hein is Professor History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology, Professor at Leiden and Erasmus University and UNESCO Chair Water, Ports and Historic Cities. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban
This lecture was held on 02/21/2023 and was part of the Spitzer Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation.” Michelle G. Magalong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Historic Preservation program at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture. Planning and Preservation, where she previously served as