Events

  • Thirty Years of Urbanization in Mexico, 1990–2020: Urban Expansion, Central City Decline, and the Remaking of Urban Form

    Malkin Penthouse, HKS
    • Development Talks
    • Hybrid

    Over the past three decades, Mexico's urban population has nearly doubled, yet its city centers are emptying out. Since 1990, 2.5 million residents have left the central zones of 69 metropolitan areas as growth spread outward in a fragmented, low-density pattern. Central areas that once held over 40% of the urban population now hold just […]

    The Walrus Talks at Home: Canada After America

    • Online

    In this online event, authors Ricardo Hausmann and Eric Protzer will argue that instead of retreating from globalization, Canada should take its place as a real competitor on the world stage, not only by bringing its natural resources to global markets, but also by building up industries like aerospace and the life sciences to overcome the “tyranny of distance.”

    Escaping Venezuela: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

    Starr Auditorium (B200) - Belfer Building, 2nd floor

    RSVP is required. If you are a Harvard ID holder, click here to register. If you are a non-Harvard ID holder interested in attending, click here. Escaping Venezuela is a 73-minute feature documentary from Reason magazine that chronicles a nation’s descent from South America’s wealthiest democracy into an impoverished dictatorship. Framed by the 2026 capture […]

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