The LOEB Fellowship

Matt Nohn alias Rapid Urbanism is an artist and designer, as well as an urban economist and development planner.

As an artist he excels in advanced environmental design, residential architectures, and urban habitats and cities. As an urban economist and development planner, he provides high-level strategic advice for local SDG implementation in climate-smart, inclusive, and fiscally responsible urbanization solutions to UN, World Bank, EU, GIZ/KFW, C40, BMGF, and private and civic sectors. As a Loeb Fellow at Harvard he advances the Rapid Urbanism Framework, and as the CEO of the non-profit Initiative for Advanced Urbanization and Artificial Intelligence he develops the Rapid Urbanism Explorer AI for addressing the land, location, infrastructure, housing, livelihood, mobility, and environment conundrum.

Matt has 20+ years of work experience in 40+ countries spanning across all world regions. Starting his career as a bricklayer in 1995, he holds degrees in Advanced Environmental Design (Harvard), Public Policy & Macroeconomics (Harvard), and Architecture & Planning (TU Darmstadt). His work is, inter alia, published on http://www.rapidurbanism.com/resources.