Monthly Archives: April 2025

Challenges of Urban Planning in an Imperfect Democracy: Making What We Plan Happen: 50 Years of Experience from Roque González Roque González will share how his experience at Harvard shaped his professional practice and reflect on the real-world challenges he encountered—challenges that Harvard never warned him about. Drawing from five decades in the field, he will outline the principles and strategies he has used to overcome these obstacles. Through the lens of three of Mexico’s most significant urban planning projects, he will demonstrate how these principles have been applied to turn ambitious plans into reality. Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2024. […]

Each year, MCI funds a select number of students to carry out innovative research over the summer to investigate the transformation of Mexico’s complex urban landscapes over the next decades. In this year’s symposium, the 2024 summer fellows shared their findings on evolving urban publics in the face of the climate crisis and environmental disruption. MCI Fellows presented the following projects: With reviewers:

Though the newly elected presidents of Mexico and the United States started their terms mere months apart, both signaled the importance of the border to their agenda. As Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum has voiced longstanding concerns about the border and U.S. overreach, as well as a range of issues and treaties — from NAFTA to water sharing to nearshoring and energy challenges. In the first weeks of his second term, Donald Trump’s swift imposition of tariffs, building of a holding camp for migrants at the border, and targeting Latin Americans for deportation seem to have set an agenda […]