Global Exchange
Global Exchange connects New York City’s civic community to the world’s foremost urban leaders and inspires creative change around shared challenges, from housing and infrastructure to health and resilience.
What can New York City learn from global cities to create safe, dignified, and stable homes for every New Yorker?
What can New York learn from cities taking “big swings” to confront their housing crises?
Hosted with New London Architecture and Kohn Pedersen Fox, our transatlantic exchanges bring together industry professionals in New York and London to share knowledge on key issues in both cities, from affordable housing policy to tall buildings.
What does the pandemic reveal about urban design, infrastructure, and governance? And how can we build a more just city for New Yorkers hardest hit by the public health and economic crisis?
Cities around the world are leveraging private development to build new neighborhoods, public spaces, transit networks and social housing.
In 2015, the Urban Design Forum explored China’s great urban migration. Over the last 30 years, more than 200 million people have migrated from the countryside to China’s cities, and officials plan to relocate another 250 million rural residents over the next decade. What are the consequences of this vast urban shift?
Join delegates from the Tokyo study trip in a conversation about applying lessons to New York City's housing landscape.
Join us for a conversation with Singapore’s Chief Urban Designer on how the city balances density with livability.
Join Urban Design Forum for a conversation on New Zealand's strategies to increase housing production through upzoning.
Join us to learn from Tokyo’s unique approach to housing and urban planning.
Join Urban Design Forum and the AIANY Housing Committee for a conversation about housing, transformation, and livability in Vienna with Maria Vassilakou.
Join the 2024-25 Global Exchange Fellows to explore "big swings" to address the housing crisis, inspired by cities across the world.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Urban Design Forum launched City Life After Coronavirus, a digital program convening Fellows and international experts to document global responses to the current crisis and to strategize a road to recovery for New York City. In April, we released a Call for Ideas to our network soliciting a […]
Posted — September 4, 2020
