Megacities: Global Slums and the Urbanization of Poverty

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Folarin Gbadebo-Smith

Robert Neuwirth

Janice Perlman

Cynthia Smith

Panelists:

Jessica Bidgood, Hector Josue Collantes Luna, and Sarah Freeman
EPIIC 2007-08 EPIIC Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University; Student, University of the Pacific, Lima; and
Cofounder of Engineers without Borders, Institute for Global Leadership and School of Engineering, Tufts University

Folarin Gbadebo-Smith
Chairman, Ikoyi/Obalende Local Government Council, Lagos, Nigeria; Mason Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University; Honorary Consul, Royal Kingdom of Thailand in Nigeria

Piyali Kundu and Aly Pittman
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University

Robert Neuwirth
Author, Shadow Cities, A Billion Squatters: A New Urban World; Journalist, The Nation, The Village Voice, Newsday, The New York Times, Metropolis and City Limits; Former Community Organizer

Janice Perlman
Founder and President, Mega-Cities Project; Author, Marginality from Myth to Reality: Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2005 and The Myth of Marginality: Urban Politics and Poverty in Rio de Janeiro; Coordinator, President Carter’s Neighborhood Task Force on National Urban Policy; Former Executive Director, Strategic Planning, New York City Partnership

Cynthia Smith
Exhibit Curator, “Design for the Other 90%”; Manager, Travel Exhibitions, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Juror, UNESCO Shelter Me Competition

Introduction of Cynthia Smith and Design for the Other 90%
Tim Fitzsimons
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium

Moderator
Elizabeth Gross
EPIIC 2007-08 Colloquium