Global Urban Development

Global Urban Development (GUD) is a worldwide non-profit policy organization founded in 2001, consisting of a rapidly growing network of more than 500 dynamic and well-known urban leaders from many different countries representing a wide range of occupations and institutions. GUD has offices in Barcelona, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Prague, Rehoboth, San Francisco Bay Area, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington, DC. We conduct education, research, and action to promote policy ideas that help generate more equitable urban planning and more sustainable urban development throughout the world. To further these goals, we publish the state-of-the-art Global Urban Development Magazine on our website, and we engage in projects in partnership with a wide variety of international organizations.