Mailing address
Not in Residence
Gund Hall
48 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Stephen J. Ramos
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-2984
Fax: 617-495-0446
Email: sramos@gsd.harvard.edu
Experience
Stephen Ramos is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where his research focuses on large-scale trade infrastructure in rapidly urbanizing contexts, specifically looking at the case of Dubai. He holds a B.A. in English and Spanish Literature from Gettysburg College, an M.S. in Community and Regional Planning and an M.A.in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has held multiple head teaching fellow positions at the Graduate School of Design and Harvard College and is the principal instructor for the Urban Planning and Urban Design curricula for the GSD summer Career Discovery Program. Recent publications include Policy Brief 4 "Sinews of Growth: Generative Infrastructural Urbanism in Dubai" for the Dubai School of Government and "Prototype and Replication in Dubai Urbanism," co-authored with Peter G. Rowe for the forthcoming book The Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press 2008). His professional practice includes work with the Fundación Metrópoli in Madrid, the International Society of City and Regional Planners in Barcelona, along with NGO work in Central America.
May, 2008
Generative Infrastructural Urbanism in Dubai
Policy Brief
By Stephen J. Ramos, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In a policy brief published by the Dubai School of Government in May 2008, DI fellow Stephen Ramos gives his recommendations on how the most recent round of infrastructure planning in Dubai will spatially impact the city's form and functionality, and how the Emirate can best prepare for these changes.
