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Tales from Many Cities: A collection of housing stories published as part of DPU module
These housing stories have resulted in a mini-series of blogs revealing the complex ways in which personal and political aspects of shelter provision interweave over time, and impact on multiple aspects of people’s lives.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD student successfully defends thesis on urban design for reconstruction in Port-au-Prince
Congratulations to Rachel Valbrun who has successfully defend her thesis that in Port-au-Prince, the disregard for underlying limitations of land access has encouraged built environment design interventions that perpetuate vulnerability.…
Development Planning Unit
Advocating for just sanitation across urban Africa
We are pleased to share the outputs from the MSc ESD/OVERDUE Learning Alliance, in which students and partners have developed advocacy strategies on four key overlooked links to advance just sanitation…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD student successfully defends thesis on the politics of the making of the temporary urban
Congratulations to Marisol Garcia González who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled 'The politics of the making of the temporary urban. Narratives of Santiago’s contemporary practices.'…
Development Planning Unit
DPU research projects selected amongst UCL's REF 2021 impact case studies
Congratulations to DPU's Michael Walls, Adriana Allen, Emmanuel Osuteye, Cassidy Johnson and Rita Lambert whose research projects were amongst the twelve REF 2021 impact case studies submitted by The Bartlett that were deemed to be 'internationally…
Development Planning Unit
Our home is on fire: climate emergency and the pandemic
A ‘(Post)Pandemic Planning in the South(s)’ event hosted by the Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and Resilience (EJUR) research cluster…
Development Planning Unit
Stories of Spatial Violence in Asian Cities
Stories of Spatial Violence in Asian Cities. 10 June 2022, 9:30 am–10:30 am. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. Shoko Sakuma. shoko.sakuma.16@ucl.ac.uk. Location. Virtual event. YouTube Widget Placeholder. Displaceability is a concept…
Development Planning Unit
DPU participation at the 11th World Urban Forum
The DPU had a presence at the Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF11) in Katowice, Poland, which was held between 26–30 June 2022. Find out about the events in which DPU participated.…
Development Planning Unit
Community-Led Housing and Regeneration in Liverpool - MSc UDP video outputs launched
In May 2022, following five months of desk-based research, students and staff from the MSc Urban Development Planning programme travelled to Liverpool for a nine-day immersion into the world of community-led housing and regeneration.…
Development Planning Unit
Book launch - Somewhere to Live: Rising to the global urban land and housing challenge
Book launch: ‘Somewhere to Live: Rising to the global urban land and housing challenge’ by Geoffrey Payne, Practical Action Publishing, 2022.…
Development Planning Unit