Cuz Potter

International Development and Globalization
Columbia University
New York, NY



Cuz Potter (MSUP, MIA, Columbia University, 2003) is pursuing his doctorate in urban planning at Columbia. Before returning to school, he worked as an editor and translator for the South Korean Ministries of Environment and Labor in Seoul. In New York, he has consulted for a variety of entities, including the Manhattan Borough President's Office, Herrick, Feinstein, LLP, and CIVITAS. He also has co-written a chapter entitled "The Heights: An Ivory Tower and Its Community" (in University as Developer, M.E. Sharpe, 2004) with Peter Marcuse and "A Tale of Three Northern Manhattan Communities" with Richard Bass for the Fordham Urban Law Journal (January 2004). For the World Bank he has published a study of slums entitles, "Inside Informality: Poverty, Jobs, Housing and Services in Nairobi's Slums" (Report No. 36347-KE with Sumila Gulyani and Debabrata Talukdar). In the summer of 2007, Socio-Economic Review published "Regional economies, open networks and the spatial fragmentation of production" (co-authored with Josh Whitford). Broadly interested the role of industrial districts within the global trade network, his current dissertation research focuses on the role of infrastructure in structuring the commodity chains that constitute the world system of cities.

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