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SUMMARY:Environmental Affairs Symposium - Keynote Presentation
DESCRIPTION:The Urban Century: Cities\, Mega-Cities\, and Urban Innovatio
n \;Dr. Janice Perlman \;is the Founder and President of the Mega
-Cities Project\, a nonprofit organization geared toward sharing innovat
ive solutions to problems common to cities with over 10 million people.&#
160\; The Mega-Cities Project's goal is "to shorten the time lag between
ideas and implementation through experiential learning\, collective creat
ion of new knowledge\, and preparing the next generation of urban leaders
." \; The organization's personal network-based approach to dissemina
ting and scaling up local solutions has been adopted by UN-Habitat as an
Urban Best Practice. \; Dr. Perlman earned a BA from Cornell Univer
sity in Anthropology and Latin American Studies and a PhD from MIT in P
olitical Science. \; She was a professor of City and Regional Plannin
g at University of California\, Berkeley before founding the Mega-Cities
Project. \;She also coordinated an Inter-Agency Task Force on Nation
al Urban Policy under President Carter\; served as Executive Director of
Strategic Planning for the New York City Partnership\; and acted as Senio
r Advisor to the World Bank's Urban Projects Department. \; She is th
e author of The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de
Janeiro (University of California Press)\, winner of the C. Wright Mills
Award. \; Dr. Perlman received Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships
to complete her latest book\, Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge
in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press). \;
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The Urban Century: Cities\,
Mega-Cities\, and Urban Innovation
\;Dr. Janice Perlman \;is the Founder and President of
the Mega-Cities Project\, a nonprofit organization geared toward sharing
innovative solutions to problems common to cities with over 10 million p
eople. \; The Mega-Cities Project's goal is "to shorten the time lag
between ideas and implementation through experiential learning\, collecti
ve creation of new knowledge\, and preparing the next generation of urban
leaders." \; The organization's personal network-based approach to d
isseminating and scaling up local solutions has been adopted by UN-Habita
t as an Urban Best Practice. \; Dr. Perlman earned a BA from Cornel
l University in Anthropology and Latin American Studies and a PhD from
MIT in Political Science. \; She was a professor of City and Regional
Planning at University of California\, Berkeley before founding the Mega
-Cities Project. \;She also coordinated an Inter-Agency Task Force o
n National Urban Policy under President Carter\; served as Executive Dire
ctor of Strategic Planning for the New York City Partnership\; and acted
as Senior Advisor to the World Bank's Urban Projects Department. \; S
he is the author of The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics i
n Rio de Janeiro (University of California Press)\, winner of the C. Wrig
ht Mills Award. \; Dr. Perlman received Guggenheim and Fulbright Fell
owships to complete her latest book\, Favela: Four Decades of Living on t
he Edge in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press). \;
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