Global Urban Development

The main purpose of Global Urban Development is to bring everyone together and engage them in one unified conversation about the future of the urban world, and indeed, of the world itself. This is what we mean by "Global Urban Development." Global Urban Development is a new idea in the world and represents a genuine paradigm shift because it involves treating the entire urban world as one place and one phenomenon within a unified policy framework. This is not the norm with regard to urban policy.

The general state of urban policy in the world is divided very sharply into three separate and distinct urban networks. The first and largest network is focused on urban policy in developing countries, which sometimes also includes the transitional economies of central and eastern Europe. This network is led by international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank. The second network is urban policy in the developed world, minus the U.S. This is the world of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The third network is urban policy in the U.S., which is the least international of the three.

Global Urban Development is breaking down the barriers between these three different networks. Starting with prominent urban policy professionals, we have built a truly Global Urban Development network, uniting all three of the world's major urban policy constituencies. Global Urban Development's Board of Directors and Advisory Board cover an extremely wide range and diversity of people from all walks of life all over the world, and this coverage will become even more comprehensive and diverse as the Prague Institute expands its activities across the globe.

This committee oversees the editorial production of Global Urban Development Magazine, published annually on our website. The 2005 issue introduced and highlighted GUD’s program themes. The 2006 issue had a special focus on the UN Millennium Development Goals. The 2007 issue is a special issue on Urban Land Policies for Poverty Reduction, with articles originally produced for the 2005 World Bank International Urban Research Symposium held in Brasilia, Brazil, co-sponsored by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Global Urban Development Committee
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Autumn, Claudia Laub, and Nancy Sedmak-Weiss

Arthur Alderson

Edward Blakely

Andrew Boraine

Tim Campbell
JoAnn Carmin
Joseph Drew

Andrzej Flis

Colin Fudge

Shari Garmise

Peter Hall

Emille van Heyningen
Kenneth Jackson

Vinay Lall

Richard LeGates

Azim Manji
Patricia McCarney

John McIlwain

Henrik Nolmark

Neal Peirce

Janice Perlman
Morgan Pillay
Roy Priest

Jonas Rabinovitch
Craig Raborn
Marivel Sacendoncillo

David Satterthwaite

Terry Scaddan
Theo Schilderman

Joelle Schmitz
Kurt Schmoke

Erica Schoenberger

Molly O'Meara Sheehan
Gholam Shiran
Anthony Smith
Gregory Squires

Richard Stren

Kaarin Taipale

Susan Wachter

Patrick Wakely

Rasna Warah
Emiel Wegelin

Marc Weiss

David Wilmoth
Nicholas You
Belinda Yuen
Robert Zdenek

Erla Zwingle

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