Africa: Building Cities: Immersive Field Course

This second year elective takes students into the field to assess and report on the opprtunities in the next decade for the private finance and delivery of public infrastructure in the Global South.  In January of 2016 and 2017 the cities studied were Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In January of 2015 the cities were Lima, Peru and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  40 students work in 8 teams of 5 people each, presening pairwise comparisions of cities.  Eight sectors are studied:  Fossil energy, renewable energy, intercity transit, urban transit, water/sanitation, solid waste/waste to energy, telecomms, and commercial real estate.