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Grounded Planning: People-centred urban development practices in the Philippines
Grounded Planning: People-centred urban development practices in the Philippines. 11 July 2016. View the book on our Issu account.. issuu Widget Placeholder.…
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Borders and camps - Life at the edge of Europe
Borders and camps - Life at the edge of Europe. 30 June 2016. There is no doubt that borders are as contested, fragile and unstable as the political, legislative and normative agreements surrounding them. Following the results of the referendum,…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 182
The power of urban street art in re-naturing urban imaginations and experiences…
Development Planning Unit
Urban Infrastructure Projects and Displacement in Nigeria
Urban Infrastructure Projects and Displacement in Nigeria. 27 June 2016. The infrastructure backlog in Nigerian cities presents an enormous impediment to efforts to improve the well-being of the country’s urban residents. However, the land…
Development Planning Unit
Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia - DPU involvement
Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia - DPU involvement. 27 June 2016. This week Dr. Camillo Boano, Director of the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) and Urban Laboratory Co-Director and DPU PhD candidate Kisnaphol…
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Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City
Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City. 21 June 2016. For more information visit UCL Press. About the book. Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration,…
Development Planning Unit
Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda
Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda. 21 June 2016. From the 13th to the 17th June, 2016, the DPU and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL hosted a group of early career scholars discussing…
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Untamed Urbanisms
Untamed Urbanisms. 31 May 2016. Edited by: Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis and Mark Swilling. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative…
Development Planning Unit
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus. 31 May 2016. Funded by the ESRC, the Nexus Network brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners to develop a holistic…
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Reflexive Development Practitioners: The 3rd Wave of the DPU/ACHR/CAN Internship Programme Launched
Reflexive Development Practitioners: The 3rd Wave of the DPU/ACHR/CAN Internship Programme Launched. 31 May 2016. Learning by doing is at the core of promoting socially minded development practices. As part of a long-standing partnership between…
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