Graduate students from MAURD program attend a high-level discussion entitled “The Future of Cities: An Integrated Approach to Urban Challenges” at United Nations on Tuesday, 10 February 2015, organized by The New York Office of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization(CSU), and the American Institute of Architecture(AIA).

One of the International high-level panelists was David Klingberg, CEO of David Lock Associates (Australia). After his speech at the UN on Smart Cities, Mr. Klingberg was invited to NYIT to give a lecture on planning process and reviewed MAURD student work.