South Asia Initiative Urbanization Seminar Series Mega-cities, The Urban Poor and The Place of Planning: The Case Of Slum Upgrading In Indian Cities

I am giving a talk on The Urban Poor and The Place of Planning: The Case Of Slum Upgrading In Indian Cities for the Harvard Graduate School of Design at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, April 18. This event is in the Piper Auditorium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on 48 quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

It is great to see the Mayor championing the Mega-Cities postion from  his bully pulpits as Mayor and Multi-millionaire. Bloomberg is also chairing the C40, a coalition of cities worldwide focusing on climate change.  Click here to read the article.

The new figures on the decline of extreme poverty in the developing countries are very encouraging. I hope they are true and not just a product of statistic manipulation. My question would be whether the conditions of the urban poor are improving as well as the conditions as the rural poor–and how the new middle class is being defined . If you have information on this please send it along. Click here to see the full article

I have had the pleasure of consulting for the World Bank Institute for the past several months and I think they are doing exactly the kind of knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, and connecting that this Financial Times article identifies as the cutting edge activities that will keep the World Bank Relevant.  Click here to see the full article.

Great to see that the NYT ran an article showing how once again marginalized urban communities are treated as expendable in preparation for mega-events such as the World Cup and the Olympics. Click here for the full article.

Hi Everyone,

I was finally convinced to join twitter, so feel free to check out my tweets and tweet me back @JanicePerlman!

On Thursday, March 1, I attended this lunch panel and discussion.  It was incredibly powerful and impressive to see that low-income entrepreneurial women all over the world are being given mentorship and technical assistance to grow their small businesses.  To date 7500 women have been reached.  I was thinking it would be excellent to connect the many women in squatter settlements and slums who have started and are running their own enterprises with this impressive initiative.

For more information about this Campaign click here.

My wonderful research team in Rio has completed the final report on Pacifying Police and are awaiting permission to release the report.  We uncovered the story from the Favela residents point of view and it revealed a lot of useful insights for the expansion of the program.

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