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| William Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecologies, Parsons The New School for Design (Matthew Sussman/The New School) |
New York, New York (August 22, 2012)- Six leading urban experts from The New School, New York's legendary progressive university, will be available for media commentary at UN-Habitat's World Urban Forum 6 (WUF) in Naples, Italy from September 1 to 6. The New School professors will be available for on-site or telephone media interviews in Naples, and for commentary ahead of the forum. In addition, the New School team will be tweeting their impressions @urbanTNS--and a full listing of New School-sponsored events can be found at The New School's Urban Programs site, www.newschool.edu/urban.
Read on for bios and contact information of New School urban experts attending WUF6:
Robert Buckley
Senior Fellow, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School
Previous to joining The New School, Robert Buckley was an Advisor and Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, and Lead Economist at the World Bank. His work at both the Foundation and the Bank focused largely on issues relating to urbanization in developing countries. Buckley has worked in more than 50 developing countries and has written widely on urbanization, housing, and development issues in the popular press such as the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and in academic journals such as the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Nature. His most recent book, which he co-edited with Michael Spence and Patricia Annez is Urbanization and Economic Growth.
Email: [email protected]
Michael Cohen
Professor, Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs, and Director of The Observatory on Latin America (OLA), The New School
Michael Cohen is founder and director of The New School for Public Engagement's Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs. From 1972 to 1999, Cohen had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin).
Email: [email protected]
Margarita Gutman, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs, and Director of Programs of the Observatory on Latin America (OLA), The New School; Profesora Consulta, Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
A trained architect and international urban affairs researcher, Margarita Gutman directs New School projects including the Observatory on Latin America's programs, the President Nestor Krichner Fellowship, and the Building Latin America Bicentennial Program. She has served as a Scholar at The Getty Research Institute and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and has authored, co-authored or edited 14 books, most recently Buenos Aires: El Poder de la Anticipacion: Imagenes Itinerantes del futuro metropolitano en torno al Centenario (2011).
Email: [email protected]
Brian McGrath, Associate Professor/Research Chair in Urban Design, Parsons The New School for Design; Founder and Principal of Urban-Interface, LLC
Brian McGrath leads Parsons' cutting-edge research in urban design. He extends this work outside the academy with Urban-Interface, whose current projects include partnerships with governmental agencies, private developers and cultural institutions such as the USDA Forest Service, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, The Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Edison Properties and others. McGrath is also a principle researcher in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research, where he leads the urban design working group. His books and publications include Digital Modeling for Urban Design and Transparent Cities, Sensing the 21st Century City (co-edited by Grahame Shane), and Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today (with Jean Gardner).
Email: [email protected]
Shagun Mehrotra, Assistant Professor, the Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New Schoo;l Director, Climate and Cities
Shagun Mehrotra's research, teaching, and policy advice focus on climate change, infrastructure economics and finance, and poverty reduction in cities, particularly in large developing-country slums. Mehrotra established Climate and Cities, an international policy advisory facility jointly housed at The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Previously, he was on the staff of the World Bank, leading infrastructure reform of public utilities in Africa with a focus on expanding services to the urban poor. Over the last decade, his research and advice has been sought by national and local governments in Latin America, East Africa, South-East Asia, China, and India; as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has authored and coauthored articles and two books, including Climate Change and Cities (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed Itself (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Email: [email protected]
William Morrish, Professor of Urban Ecologies, Parsons The New School for Design
William Morrish is a nationally recognized urban designer. He leads interdisciplinary research on urban housing and infrastructure, collaborative publications on human settlement and community design, educational programs exploring integrated design which are applied to a wide range of innovative community based city projects. He is the author of Civilizing Terrains, and coauthored Building for the Arts, Planning To Stay, and Growing Urban Habitats.
Email: [email protected]
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