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2024 DPU Short Film Competition winners announced
Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of this year's DPU Short Film Competition.…
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Displacement as Precarious Inhabiting: Care and Repair at the Urban Margins
Book chapter in Beyond Houses. Architectural Thinking and Practice for Climate, Disaster and Forced Displacement Crises.…
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DPU alumni-founded charity CatalyticAction completes project empowering adolescent girls in Lebanon
CatalyticAction, founded by alumni from the Development Planning Unit (DPU), has concluded its pilot project in Beirut, Lebanon empowering adolescent girls by involving them in the co-design and construction of public spaces.…
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Religious Actors and Land Markets
DPU and UCL Department of Geography invite you to join us for a workshop where we seek to unpack religious actors’ practices within land markets and question some of the assumptions in the field of urban planning about the ways land is valued and…
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Religious Actors With or Against The State in City Making & Urban Planning
Please join us for the Urban Studies Foundation-funded seminar series, on the role of religious actors and organisations in the production of cities in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.…
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Time to Walk the Talk: Forefronting Local and Regional Government Actions to Achieve SDG11
Join us for a DPU70 Dialogues in Development report launch event, chaired by Professor Michael Walls.…
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(Local) actions shaping urban environmental trajectories in the global South
Please join us for this DPU70 Dialogues in Development Session in which we will examine how the work of our Visiting Professor David Satterthwaite has influenced the DPU and the wider field of urban environmental debates and practices.…
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Disaster Prevention and Management special issue: liberating disaster studies
Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 33 Issue 3…
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Book launch of 'Informal Settlements of the Global South'
Join us for a conversation between Gihan Karunaratne and Henk Wildschut and Nishat Awan about Gihan's newly published book Informal Settlements of the Global South (Routledge, 2024).…
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Lilongwe: City report
ACRC Working Paper 2024-13. Manchester: African Cities Research Consortium, The University of Manchester.…
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