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October 7, 2020

Chair of Urban Economy Forum, Reza Pourvaziry, Architect with Masters from Iran, Participates as a Speaker at the Gulf Sustainable Urbanism Book Launch Event

To honor the publication of the Harvard Gulf Sustainable Urbanism Book, Harvard University and Msheireb Properties hosted a program of Virtual Panels, beginning with an initial introductory event on Wednesday 7th October, 2020. 

This Launch was followed by two virtual online ‘super-panels’ composed of leading experts, who presented the salient lessons gleamed from the past that can be very relevant today, either directly or through careful interpretation. For that reason, this groundbreaking body of research knowledge has the potential to become an invaluable source of guidance when making holistic, sustainable decisions for the future urbanism of the Gulf region

On October the 21st, Reza Pourvaziry, was honored to be given a speaker role at the virtual online  super panels.  Mr. Reza Pourvaziry, based on his perception as an architect, talked about 3 main topics: urban values,  the use of proper and relevant scales of space in cities, and relevant urban architecture that is related to lifestyles of people. The streams were published on Gulf Sustainable Urbanism's official website, please click here to view the videos.