Aseem Inam is Associate Professor of Urbanism at The New School in New York City and Fellow at the Center of Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of two peer-reviewed books, Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities, and Designing Urban Transformation. He is also the author of several journal articles and book chapters on the institutional dynamics of city-building, the critical future of urbanism, and Las Vegas as a prismatic city. As an activist-scholar-practitioner, he has practiced in Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, Haiti, Morocco and the United States.