{"id":1374,"date":"2016-04-28T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/?page_id=1374"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:17:06","slug":"news-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/news-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">News &amp; Events<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-50eac3a5 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3527 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-events tag-news\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-10T18:06:52+00:00\">August 10, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/2026-mci-symposium\/\" target=\"_self\" >2026 MCI Symposium<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">2026 MCI Symposium The 2026 Mexican Cities Initiative Symposium took place on Monday, April 13, bringing together research and design addressing Mexico\u2019s urban and environmental futures. The program included opening remarks from DRCLAS Co-Chair and Faculty Committee on Mexico Diane&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3376 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-events tag-events tag-new\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-04-07T21:50:00+00:00\">April 7, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/event-first-mexican-graduate-from-the-gsd-returns-to-harvard-to-reflect-on-his-experience\/\" target=\"_self\" >Hablemos de Mexico<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Hablemos de Mexico First Mexican Graduate in Urban Planning from the GSD Returns to Harvard to Reflect on His Experience Challenges of Urban Planning in an Imperfect Democracy: Making What We Plan Happen: 50 Years of Experience from Roque Gonz\u00e1lez&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3402 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-events tag-events tag-news\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-04-07T20:13:06+00:00\">April 7, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/event-mci-symposium-on-urban-futures\/\" target=\"_self\" >Event: MCI Symposium on Urban Futures<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">2025 MCI Symposium Each year, MCI funds a select number of students to carry out innovative research over the summer to investigate the transformation of Mexico\u2019s complex urban landscapes over the next decades. In this year\u2019s symposium, the 2024 summer&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3380 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-events tag-news\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-04-07T18:51:20+00:00\">April 7, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/event-distant-neighbors-or-regional-partners-reflecting-on-us-mexico-relations-under-two-new-administrations-a-two-day-symposium\/\" target=\"_self\" >Event: Distant Neighbors or Regional Partners? Reflecting on US-Mexico Relations Under Two New Administrations. A Two-Day Symposium<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Event: Distant Neighbors or Regional Partners? Reflecting on US-Mexico Relations Under Two New Administrations. A Two-Day Symposium Though the newly elected presidents of Mexico and the United States started their terms mere months apart, both signaled the importance of the&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3345 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-events tag-news\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-04-18T17:57:13+00:00\">April 18, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/event-delving-into-mexican-cities-complexities-a-conversation-with-diane-davis\/\" target=\"_self\" >Event: Delving into Mexican Cities Complexities: A Conversation with Diane Davis<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Delving into Mexican Cities Complexities: A Conversation with Diane Davis Mexican cities face enormous urban challenges. From acute water shortages to housing crises and the surge in violence, these demand immediate attention. Join the Harvard University Mexican Association of Students&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3332 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events tag-events tag-news\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-04-15T08:41:55+00:00\">April 15, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/conference-mexico-h2o-challenges-reckonings-and-opportunities\/\" target=\"_self\" >Conference: Mexico + H2O = Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Conference: Mexico + H2O = Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities Last year, &#8220;Mexico + H2O: Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities\u201d brought together policy makers, scholars, and activists to discuss how lack and abundance of water, contaminated and privatized as well as communal,&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3077 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-events tag-news\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-02-08T20:01:54+00:00\">February 8, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/mexican-cities-initiative-scholars-reflect-on-mexico-citys-vecindades\/\" target=\"_self\" >Mexican Cities Initiative Scholars Discuss Mexico City\u2019s Vecindades<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Mexican Cities Initiative Scholars Discuss Mexico City\u2019s Vecindades Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Design (GSD). Jose Castillo, former GSD instructor, is a practicing architect &amp; urban&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2985 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-books tag-event\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-09-01T17:19:12+00:00\">September 1, 2021<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/book-presentation-ciudad-de-mexico-inercias-urbanisticas-y-proceso-constitucional\/\" target=\"_self\" >Book Presentation: &#8220;Ciudad de M\u00e9xico. Inercias urban\u00edsticas y proceso constitucional&#8221;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Book Presentation: &#8220;Ciudad de M\u00e9xico. Inercias urban\u00edsticas y proceso constitucional&#8221; Dr. Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Harvard and director of the Mexican Cities Initiative, participated in a discussion about the book Ciudad de&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2744 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-newforms tag-blog tag-event\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efefef;padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-11-21T14:29:33+00:00\">November 21, 2020<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/q-a-with-lorenzo-rocha-public-spaces-and-urban-planning-trends-in-mexico-city\/\" target=\"_self\" >Aron Lesser Chats with Lorenzo Rocha about Public Spaces and Urban Planning Trends in Mexico City<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt has-small-font-size\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Aron Lesser Chats with Lorenzo Rocha about Public Spaces and Urban Planning Trends in Mexico City Lorenzo Rocha is an architect focused on the experimental use of urban spaces. Lorenzo has published two books, Essays on Photography and Architecture (Diamantina,&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News &amp; Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>News &amp; Events - Mexican Cities Initiative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/news-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News &amp; 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