Daniela L. Constantin, Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and Fulbright Alumna, has recently participated in the Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC) meeting entitled “The City 2.0: Smart People, Places, Planning”, hosted by Professor Edward Glaeser, Harvard Kennedy School - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The meeting was jointly organised by Harvard University, the Regional Science Academy, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) - the Netherlands, the Centre for the Future of Places – Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden and the Ax:son Johnson Foundation – Sweden.

Professor Constantin presented the paper “Smart Solutions to City Resilience Challenges” (co-authored with Dr. Cristina Serbanica) in a session with Professor Carlo Ratti from M.I.T. – Cambridge, MA, chaired by Professor Peter Nijkamp from Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS).

The research undertaken for this paper was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS - UEFISCDI, within the PNCDI III project ”ReGrowEU - Advancing ground-breaking research in regional growth and development theories, through a resilience approach: towards a convergent, balanced and sustainable European Union”.

More details can be found at http://www.regionalscienceacademy.org/site/2019/11/10/the-city-2-0-smart-people-places-planning-in-boston/