Urban Informality Now, a Routledge publication, now available for pre-order

Today, one in every six people on Earth lives in an informal urban or squatter settlement. United Nations analysts estimate that number will rise to one in three by 2050. “Traditionally, policymakers see these people as a problem,” says Janice Perlman, PhD ’71. “I believe they’re part of the solution.”

Interconnected travel and the economies of scale cities offer ensures their appeal will not disappear after the pandemic

Interconnected travel and the economies of scale cities offer ensures their appeal will not disappear after the pandemic

RIO TIMES INTERVIEW PERLMANA Social Scientist and Urban Studies specialist, Janice Perlman would ultimately live for months in three of Rio’s favelas

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On October 27, 1961, Martin Luther King Jr., the chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, arrived at Columbia University to give a speech.

The Mega-Cities Projects congratulates HIC on this timely and important Campaign which it will launch at HIC’s General Assembly (open online) on October 10

Perlman won the award for longitudinal research on the impact of metropolitan incorporation of fishing villages she studied over 50 years ago near the Brazilian city of Recife.

Janice Perlman described her findings from her 50-year-old research in Rio