Zoning for Democracy, Part 3
PART 3: ASSEMBLING A COALITION FOR ACCOUNTABLE DEVELOPMENT As Newark’s Planning Director & Chief Urban Designer, 2007 Loeb Fellow Damon Rich’s most recent success (following establishing the city’s...
View ArticleBoston’s Counting on Art
Boston’s new chief of arts and culture Julie Burros is heading up a yearlong conversation to find out what the city wants and needs for its cultural life. It’s an ambitious plan to conduct interviews,...
View ArticleNewark Riverfront Revival Mega Poster Release Party
Former LOEBlogger Kate Anderson returns to the scene of her 2013 Community Service Fellowship with Damon Rich and the Newark Riverfront Revival, where the work continues to mature and broaden its...
View ArticleEmpowering Communities Around the World–Introducing the 2016 Loeb Fellows
They have traveled the world to lead humanitarian response and sustainable reconstruction in the face of conflict and disaster. They have ranged the country to guide decision makers in revitalizing...
View ArticleAASU Prompts Some Professional Soul-Searching
The recent article in Aljazeera about inFORMing Justice and the GSD African American Student Union mentioned the dearth of urban design courses that deal with race and social justice. It caught the eye...
View ArticleDamon Rich Joins Loebs in Leipzig
Damon Rich (LF ’07) marked the transition from his role as planning director in Newark with a grand European tour. He gave a talk at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences titled “Orange Agency,”...
View ArticleAzzurra Cox on Parks on the March in Bolivia
Within a week of arriving in La Paz, Bolivia, for her Penny White Fund Award trip, Loeblogger Azzurra Cox (MLA) knew she had to write about it. She had found herself in “a city-landscape like no...
View ArticleStanding Ovation for Angela Glover Blackwell, 2015 Dunlop Lecturer
The event was scheduled for Tuesday September 29, 2015, but excitement began days in advance. Urban planning students, recent alumni, and activist designers buzzed. Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and...
View ArticleGet involved! Participation is vital (and fun)
When thinking about participatory planning, Janelle Chan (LF ‘16) recommends “starting with a basic knowledge” of problems, threats, and opportunities in your community. In a conversation over coffee,...
View ArticleLoeb 45 Journal: Cities are finding high ground, getting democracy right
True to the banner of “Grounded Visionaries” adopted by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Loeb45–the Loeb Fellowship 45th Anniversary Celebration and Alumni Reunion–was a window on a future of...
View ArticleGreen Links for Community Change: A Loeb Fellowship Community Design Workshop
In keeping with the theme of the Loeb Fellowship 45th Reunion celebration, Designing for Change: Towards Equity and Resilience, Matt Kiefer (LF ‘96) and I, in partnership with Livable Streets, the...
View ArticleIndia Pierce Lee: One of Cleveland’s Smart Creatives
India Pierce Lee’s (LF ’09) leadership of the Cleveland Foundation’s Greater University Circle Initiative–a partnership of eds and meds plus–has caught the attention of Cleveland.com. The publication...
View ArticleWelcoming Toni Griffin
Dean Mohsen Mostafavi has announced the appointment of Toni L. Griffin (LF ‘98) as Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the GSD, where she will lead a Design Lab this spring. Griffin spent the...
View ArticleLoeb Video Profile: Janelle Chan
Janelle Chan found inspiration in the resilience and tenaciousness of Boston’s Chinatown community, which reclaimed a part of the city that had been taken away during urban renewal. She views herself...
View ArticleLoeb Video Profile: Euneika Rogers-Sipp
Euneika Rogers-Sipp helps Deep South communities with a rich agricultural heritage but persistent poverty transform to sustain a better quality of life for their residents. Her particular talent lies...
View ArticleDesigning Boston: Northern Avenue Bridge 3/7
Loeb Kimberly Driggins will be on the panel tonight when the Boston Society of Architects hosts the discussion Designing Boston: Northern Avenue Bridge, considering the bridge's pivotal place on the...
View ArticleHealing from Within
An exhibit at the Royal Institute of British Architecture in London is finding the opportunity in catastrophe, showing the ways architects have responded to disasters over time. In a CityLab article...
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Power, Politics and Community: Balancing Competing Interests 4/4
Learning from Practice Seminar Series When: April 4, 12-1 pm Where: Gund, Room 124 When working with communities there are always multiple interests that must be carefully understood and navigated to...
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Innovation from Crisis: A Permanent Shelter Project in Somalia
LOEBlogger Carly James was “thrown into the deep end” to lead an impact evaluation of World Vision Somalia’s long term shelter work in the state of Puntland. Her work is on display at the Design for...
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