Crisis in Kathmandu
By Joseph Lawlor, MURP ’16 & International Practice Pathway Fellow In the final weeks of my internship I visited Nepal to attend a workshop on gender in development work. It […]
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Reflections of interning at UNHCR
By Katie Merrill, MSW ’16 & International Practice Pathway Fellow It was already an emotional time for me in the office. I had just completed the last interviews I was […]
CONSTRUCT TO DESTRUCT IN CHINA
By Mohan Khidia MURP ’16 While at CDIPD (Chengdu Institute of Planning and Urban Design), my summer internship office, the experts were discussing about increasing the commercial FAR (Floor Area […]
Just as it’s about to get good…
By Kurt Klein MPP ’16 Although I believe our social cohesion research work is pioneering, fascinating and could be influential in public policy decision making, my days thus far have been […]
Ahmedabad’s Parting Gift: Patel Agitation and OBC Politics
By Cally Hardy, MURP ‘16 I have left Ahmedabad and am spending a few weeks travelling before heading home to finish my last year at UCLA. And, in true India […]
An Outsider’s Field Observations: Bhopal, Bureaucracy, and Community Outreach
By Cally Hardy, MURP ‘16 As part of my internship at the Centre for Urban Equity this summer, I had the opportunity to participate in a week-long fieldwork trip to […]
Coming to Ahmedabad with an Open Heart, Mind
By Cally Hardy, MURP ‘16 When learning that I would be traveling to Ahmedabad for two months this summer, countless friends, family members and random strangers came out of the […]
How I Became an Urban Water Infrastructure ‘Expert’ Part 1
By Humberto Castro MURP/ M.Arch ’17 It was not lost on me that I was moving from a place undergoing one of the most severe water crisis it had undergone […]
“It’s Turkey!”
By Carmen Chen MURP ’16 As my time in Istanbul has come to an end, I am struggling with how to end my blog. After several rewrites, I have concluded […]
My First Impression of Panama
By Marissa Sánchez MURP 16’ When I first landed and got off the airplane in Panama I was quite unsure of what to expect. If I can be completely honest […]
