On May 5, Nobel Laureate Paul Romer sent a message to LOUD on The Second Annual Academic Conference of LOUD.

Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou—China’s mega-cities are well-known to urban researchers. But smaller, lower-tier cities and towns, where much of China’s population lives, are less understood. While big cities may outshine small cities in terms of investment, the Chinese government has identified the development of small towns and cities as a priority. As cities develop, close attention needs to be paid to infrastructure development, including clean water supply, concluded a recently published study.

On January 11, the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD) at NYU Shanghai hosted a joint seminar with Tokyo City University’s Urban Spatial Information Science Laboratory

Professor Kangning Huang from Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science received Google Award for Inclusion (AIR) Program.

When asked to summarize her four years in NYU Shanghai in a word, Elin Shi Yiling ’22 replies, “pandemic.” COVID-19 cast its shadow over three out of the Class of 2022’s