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The DPU produces engaging blogs written by staff, students, alumni and partners on a range of relevant and topical subjects
Covid-19, urban mobility and social equity
Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.
Gaza and the COVID-19 “Crisis”: Breaking the cycle of structural vulnerability first
Co-authored by Haim Yacobi, Michelle Pace, Ziad Abu Mustafa and Manal Massalha
Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.
‘Stay at Home’: Housing as a pivotal infrastructure of care?
Co-authored by Catalina Ortiz and Camillo Boano
Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.
“people survive difficulty by coming together as communities of care, not pulling apart in a retreat into individualism” OluTimehin Adegbeye, 2020
“Housing is a condition to the right to life” Laia Bonet, 2020
Urban economics in the time of Covid-19: What happens when the thing that makes cities great also makes them dangerous?
Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.
Many of the world’s most iconic cities are in lock-down. Bustling public places have emptied overnight. As the images below show, Times Square (New York) is eerily quiet, traffic disappeared from the streets of Shanghai. Even the pigeons are staying away from St. Mark’s (Venice).
The Politics of Making Disability Visible in Community-led Urban Research
Last Tuesday 11th February, we held the event titled “The Politics of Making Disability Visible in Community-led Urban Research” as part of the Dialogues in Development series at The Bartlett Developing and Planning Unit (UCL). The aim was to share reflections and learnings from the action-research project “Community-led solution: Assistive Technologies in Informal Settlements” – an on-going research project in four low-income urban communities: two in Freetown (Sierra Leone) and two in Banjarmasin (Indonesia).
How Research Creates More Inclusive Spaces: Bar Elias, Lebanon
Co-authored by Joana Dabaj
Originally published by UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
Housing, displacement and the elderly: intersectional spatial narratives from Tareek el Jdeede, Beirut
By Monica Basbous, Nadine Bekdache and Camillo Boano
Transmedia Storytelling: Activating Urban Learning for Slum Upgrading
By Dr. Catalina Ortiz and Gynna Millan
A research collaboration between The Bartlett DPU staff, UN-Habitat, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Cities Alliance, the Municipality of Medellin and six grassroots organisations part of Movimiento de Pobladores and Sandelion – a local transmedia production organisation- to co-design a digital platform that helps to learn about slum upgrading strategies.
Therapy Gardens – Urban Green Space and Better Health
There is an growing body of scholarship that supports the cultivation of green spaces in urban environments as a vital part of healthcare and wellbeing provision in cities and communities (Pearson and Craig 2014; Wyles et al. 2017). According to the constitution of the World Health Organisation health is ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. In other words, it includes both physical and psychological wellbeing.
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