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Cities and Social Justice

The Cities and Social Justice Concentration at GPIA offers a unique interdisciplinary curriculum that provides students with the necessary analytic and practical skills to understand and productively engage with urban processes in a globalizing world. The coursework and practical training within the Cities and Social Justice Concentration enables students to focus on a diversity of topics and issues affecting urban centers, including urban development and infrastructure, urban governance, citizenship and human rights, media and culture, environment, and sustainability.

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For the first time in history most of the world’s inhabitants reside in cities. Urban centers are where change is happening – in the economy, finance, technology, culture and the environment. The rapid and unprecedented transformations force policy-makers, citizens, and communities to understand how they are linked together, and how they can be managed to promote …

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Core Faculty Robert Buckley Ph.D. University of Kentucky Michael Cohen Ph.D. University of Chicago Margarita Gutman Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires Antina von Schnitzler Ph.D. Columbia University   Students  

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