Events

Resiliency and Healthy Contexts: The Location of Culture

Paper contribution to the January 2009 seminar on community resilience.

Defusing the Bomb: Overcoming Pakistan's Population Challenge

Pakistan's population—currently about 185 million—is expected to rise to 335 million by 2050. On June 9, the Wilson Center hosted a day-long conference to examine both the challenges and opportunities of Pakistan's demographics, and to discuss how best to tackle the former and maximize the latter.

Governance, Urban Environment, and the Growing Role of Civil Society

Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Comparative Urban Studies Occasional Papers Series, 34), 2000. PDF: 133KB/18 pages

Community, Healthy and Resilience: Reflections from the Perspective of Living City (Chile)

Paper contribution to the January 2009 seminar on community resilience.

Retrieving the Wisdom of Those in Need: Comments by Dennis Warner

Paper contribution to the April 2011 seminar on post-disaster community engagement.

Organized Crime: Its Influence on International Security and Urban Community Life in the Industrial Cities of the Urals

Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1998. (Comparative Urban Studies Occasional Paper Series; 17). PDF: 117KB/22 pages

Establishing a New Right to the Ukrainian City

Report that studies the impact and integration of transnationals in Ukraine's gateway cities.

New York: The Fate of a World City?

Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; 1993. (Comparative Urban Studies Occasional Paper Series; 1)

The Challenge of Urban Governance

Chapter 9 in Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World

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Experts & Staff

  • Blair A. Ruble // Director, Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, and Senior Advisor, Kennan Institute
  • Allison Garland // Program Associate, Comparative Urban Studies Project
  • Lauren Herzer // Program Associate, Environmental Change and Security Program and Global Health Initiative