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Preparing the Next Generation of Professors of Environmental Studies
In a recent article, Benjamin Cashore and Stephen Bernstein argue that doctoral programs in environmental schools, like Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, The…
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Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?
I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide ideas, analyses and organized settings in…
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Planners are No Long Generalists with a Specialty
There’s recent discussion in urban planning journals about the way professional city planners should be educated today. Almost fifty years ago, Professor Harvey Perloff at…
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Three Surprising Leadership Skills
MIT is looking ahead, trying to figure out what skills the next generation of scientists, engineers, applied social scientists, designers and managers will need. After…
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Do colleges and universities in America do more harm than good? Of course not!
I was shocked to learn that a substantial portion of American adults believe that colleges and universities do more harm than good. Really? What leads…
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Universities are underinvesting in efforts to improve the quality of teaching
My friend and colleagues, Michael O’Hare (a Professor at UC-Berkeley), points out in a recent paper entitled The 1.5% Solution: Quality Assurance for Teaching and…
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Consensus Building in the Age of Trump
What’s it like in The Age of Trump? What’s special about the Age of Trump? I would point to two things. First, our political leaders…
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Big Data, Urban Science and the Search for New Ways of Improving Life in the City
Imagine you had all the data you could possibly want about a city. I’m talking about real time readouts of all inputs and output, along…
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Contemplating the need for more peacebuilders
Peacebuilders are trained professionals who deal with conflict inside organizations and between individuals, groups, and organizations (including countries). They have, for a long time, made…
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We Need Science Diplomacy!
My colleague, Professor Paul Berkman, has launched a Science Diplomacy Center at Tufts University. This is a campus-wide initiative coordinated through the Fletcher School of…
The Consensus Building Approach
Larry Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT and Vice-Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His blog reports on the way consensus building and negotiation tools are being used to ensure more democratic decision-making. Larry is also founder and chief knowledge officer of the Consensus Building Institute.
