Events
The Challenge of Urban Governance
Chapter 9 in Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World
After the Disaster: Rebuilding Communities
This report draws from the dialogue and seminar papers shared at an April 2011 meeting co-hosted by the Wilson Center and the Fetzer Institute to explore how best to respond to disasters. Highlighting the complex nature of disaster response and exploring ways to overcome the inherent tension between those responding to disasters and the local community, the discussion centered on how to identify the strengths of a community and use technology to better engage the local community and provide effective, sustainable relief.
Which Way Out? Favela as Lethal Hall of Mirrors
Paper contribution to the January 2009 seminar on community resilience.
Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide
As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast—changing urban contexts.
Urban Violence in São Paulo
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Comparative Urban Studies Occasional Papers Series, 33), 2000. PDF: 196KB/32 pages
Resiliency and Healthy Communities: An Exploration of Image and Metaphor
Paper contribution to the January 2009 seminar on community resilience.