Analyzing 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 Global Urban Development expands its activities across the globe.

This committee oversees the editorial production of Global Urban Development Magazine, published on our website. The committee also works with the Global City Indicators Facility (GCIF) sponsored by the University of Toronto and the World Bank. In addition, the committee is working with United Nations-Habitat on the World Urban Campaign.

This committee’s main work is participating in a major research project on The Economics of Sustainable Urban Development (also known as the Stern Cities Program), in which GUD is working as a Global Partner with the London School of Economics, the OECD, the World Bank, the C40, University College London, the Global City Indicators Facility, and the Greater London Authority. Lord Nicholas Stern, an LSE Professor, is serving as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee. GUD Vice Chair Nicky Gavron is serving as the Chief Project Advisor, GUD Advisory Board member Dimitri Zenghelis, who teaches at LSE, is serving as the research project’s Economics Director, and GUD Chairman Marc Weiss has been advising this effort for the past three years.

Analyzing Global Urban Development Committee
Co-Chairs: Nicky Gavron, Peter Hall, and Patricia McCarney

Arthur Alderson

Rosa Alegria

Edward Blakely

Andrew Boraine

Cezar Busatto

Tim Campbell
JoAnn Carmin
Joseph Drew

Andrzej Flis

Colin Fudge

Shari Garmise

Emille van Heyningen

Davina Jackson

Kenneth Jackson

Calestous Juma

Jane Katz

Vinay Lall

Claudia Laub

Richard LeGates

Azim Manji
John McIlwain

James Nixon

Henrik Nolmark

Marielza Oliveira

Neal Peirce

Janice Perlman
Morgan Pillay

Christina Carvalho Pinto
Roy Priest

Jonas Rabinovitch
Craig Raborn
Marivel Sacendoncillo

David Satterthwaite

Terry Scaddan
Theo Schilderman

Joelle Schmitz
Kurt Schmoke

Erica Schoenberger

Nancy Sedmak-Weiss

Molly O'Meara Sheehan
Gholam Shiran
Gregory Squires

Richard Stren

Kaarin Taipale

Susan Wachter

Ramiro Wahrhaftig

Patrick Wakely

Rasna Warah
Emiel Wegelin

Marc Weiss

David Wilmoth
Nicholas You
Belinda Yuen
Robert Zdenek

Erla Zwingle

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