‘Urban planning and disaster management’ an article by Beena Sarwar about the Contemporary South Asian City Conference was published in The News on Sunday. Sarward interviewed Rahul Mehrotra of the Graduate School of Design and Jennifer Leaning of the School of Public Health, to share their experiences at the conference in Karachi.
“An urban time-bomb.” That is how Rahul Mehrotra of the Harvard Graduate School of Design described the explosive growth of contemporary cities across South Asia.
Harvard University will be well-represented at the upcoming Contemporary South Asian City Conference (Pakistan Urban Forum). Harvard is sending a team of scholars, students and doctors to represent Harvard at the mega-conference.
The South Asia Institute will be participating in The Contemporary South Asian City Conference in Karachi, Pakistan January 10 to 12, 2014.
The spirit of collaboration and community that made this year’s Kumbh Mela festival so successful was on vivid display at the workshop on August 29 and 30 at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.