The second video in The #GlobalPOV Project series is an exploration of ethical consumerism and fair trade interventions.

NYTIMES -- NEARLY 700 miles of walls now separate the United States and Mexico...these barriers are having a significant and lasting effect nonetheless: they are harming communities on both sides of the border.

Professor Meric Gertler was named the 16th President of the University of Toronto. He is one of the world’s foremost urban theorists and policy practitioners.

Ricardo Cardoso, who is pursuing a doctorate in City and Regional Planning with support from the Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship was the Third Place winner of the 2013 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest.

SFGATE -- Senator Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, introduced the California Homes and Jobs Act, SB391, which would bring in about $525 million annually for affordable housing by imposing a $75 recording fee on real estate documents

Shared is a space for creative people to work and collaborate together, founded by award-winning author/artist/designer Marilyn Yu (MCP '06).

Michael Dear, professor of City and Regional Planning and author of Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide (Oxford University Press), discusses the border between Mexico and the US in a blog post at the OUP blog

"The top ten schools produced almost half (46%) of all planning faculty (out of approximately 850 total faculty)...UC Berkeley is the clear leader followed by Cornell, MIT, and UCLA."

Sahra Mirbabaee, a student in the Urban Studies Program, posted a short version of her paper from Professor Ananya Roy's Global Poverty class on the [polis] blog