The Mansueto Institute co-sponsored the Neighborhood Innovation Summit on July 23 and July 24 in partnership with International House at the University of Chicago, bringing together youth participants ages 12-24 from the Englewood neighborhood to serve as Urban...
Cities in premodern Mesoamerica often thrived for hundreds of years, so why do most of us focus only on how these cities collapsed? A new paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Mansueto Institute and Department of Anthropology...
Christopher R. Berry, the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy and in the College, has been appointed faculty director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, effective immediately. Berry founded and currently...
Luís Bettencourt will step down as Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, effective June 30, 2023. Bettencourt, the inaugural director since 2017, will return to his research program full time and remain Professor of Ecology and Evolution in the...
Welcome back, We hope the year ahead will be very different from the difficult and frustrating experience of the last three. The pandemic is finally receding, and the university, along with society, is waking up to a new reality with many challenges but also some...
2021 in Review, and Looking Forward Growing Urban Educational ProgramsGraduate students receive the Certificate in Urban Science and Sustainable Development 'Urban Science' Textbook PublishedMansueto director Luís Bettencourt with his book Introduction to Urban...
