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 we learn from global cities to make every New Yorker’s commute safe, fast, and reliable?
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 us for a conversation with Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, about the city’s sustainable transit network, Transmilenio, and major achievements in the public realm.
Join us for a conversation about London's Elizabeth Line with Neill McClements, architect at Grimshaw and a key member of the line-wide design team.
Join us for a conversation about community power and land rights in Rio de Janeiro with Tarcyla Fidalgo, together with New York City housing movement leaders.
Join us for a conversation about Mexico City’s Lake Texcoco Ecological Park with architect and landscape urbanist Iñaki Echeverria.
Join the 2025-26 Global Exchange Fellows to explore "big swings" to address New York City’s housing crisis, inspired by cities across the world.
Join us for an information session about our 2026-2027 Global Exchange Fellowship, Fast Forward.
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
