| Introduction to the Global Urban Lecture Series | Dr. Joan Clos – UN-Habitat |
| Street-led city wide slum upgrading | Claudio Acioly – UN-Habitat |
| Making room for a planet of cities | Shlomo (Solly) Angel – Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Slums: past, present and future | Eugenie L. Birch – University of Pennsylvania |
| Transforming cities with transit | Robert Cervero – University of California, Berkeley |
| Citizen roles in resilient cities | Ron Dembo – Zerofootprint |
| Incremental Housing – The new site & services | Reinhard Goethert – Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| The notion of prosperity | Mohamed Halfani – UN-Habitat |
| Participation in practice | Nabeel Hamdi – Oxford Brookes University |
| Handmade architecture as a catalyst for development | Anna Heringer – UNESCO Chair for Earthen Architecture |
| Pro-poor solid waste management | Marijk Huysman – Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies |
| A rights-based approach to urban development | Urban Jonsson – the Owls |
| Cities Prosperity Index | Eduardo Moreno – UN-Habitat |
| Urban Informality – Marginal or Mainstream? | Janice Perlman – The Megacities Project |
| How can we transcend slum urbanism in Africa? | Edgar Pieterse – University of Cape Town |
| Post-industrial dynamics and urban housing | Hugo Priemus – Delft University |
| Fostering resilience through community based innovation | Mary Rowe –Municipal Art Society of New York |
| Value Capture as a land based tool to finance development | Martim Smolka –Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
| From Agropolis to Ecopolis – heading towards regenerative cities | Stefan Schurig – World Future Council |
| On compact, integrated & connected cities | Raf Tuts – UN-Habitat |
| ۱۰ things designers need to work on | Christian Werthmann – Leibniz University Hannover |









