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DPU staff attend Asia Pacific Urban Forum 7 in which grassroots leaders call for inclusive planning
From 15-17 October 2019 in Penang, Malaysia, delegates across civil society, government, business, and academia gathered for the 7th Asia Pacific Urban Forum (APUF), with DPU / KNOW researchers Barbara Lipietz and Stephanie Butcher in attend…
Development Planning Unit
DPU PhD student defends thesis on potential of mobile money for rural poverty reduction in Nigeria
Congratulations to DPU PhD student, Maryam Lawal, who has successfully defended her thesis titled 'A Capabilitarian Account of the Potential of Mobile Money for Rural Poverty Reduction in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria'…
Development Planning Unit
DPU alumni speak at the Strelka ‘Future Architect conference’ in Moscow, Russia
Fantastic work by DPU alumni Joana Dabaj and Riccardo Luca Conti, co-founders of CatalyticAction charity, who have received the Bronze LafargeHolcim award for sustainable construction for their project “Pavilion re-claimed for refugee education”…
Development Planning Unit
DPU’s Prof. Adriana Allen joins team to produce UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook Report for Cities
DPU's Prof Adriana Allen joins a team of international experts to produce UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Report for Cities, and will act as a co-leader of the final chapter that examines pathways for bold city action towards…
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DPU's Catalina Ortiz participates at 2019 World Human Rights Cities Forum
Dr Catalina Ortiz was invited to the 2019 World Human Rights Cities Forum, held in the city of Gwangju, Korea (Sept 30 – Oct 3), to be part of the Special Session on the Right to Housing in Asia.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU collaborate with SDI and urbaMonde to launch a mobile phone photography competition
The competition, #ChangeOurPicture, is open to anyone who lives in an informal settlement in Africa.…
Development Planning Unit
KNOW Dialogues in Urban Equality #11 - Trajectories of sanitation poverty in Dar es Salaam
KNOW Dialogues in Urban Equality #11 - Trajectories of sanitation poverty in Dar es Salaam. 01 October 2019, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. David Heymann. 07734376547. Location. 115 Galton LT. 1-19 Torrington Place,…
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DPU staff participate at the RC21 conference in Delhi
The 2019 edition of the conference, held in Delhi, titled “In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures” featured contributions from DPU’s Dr Catalina Ortiz and Prof. Camillo Boano as well as DPU PhD…
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‘Map-making by City-makers’: DPU research nominated for UCL’s #MadeAtUCL initiative
We are excited that the action-research conducted in Lima as part of ReMapRisk and cLIMA sin Riesgo has been selected as “one of the top 100 stories of disruptive discoveries from UCL” and will be exhibited at the #MadeAtUCL festival on 5th…
Development Planning Unit
Knowledge for disrupting risk in Freetown- MSc ESD and SLURC collaborative outputs launched online
We are happy to share the outputs produced by the co-learning alliance between SLURC and the Practice Module of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development fieldwork in the form of thematic policy briefs and videos.…
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