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Urban Africa Risk Knowledge: Urbanisation, poverty and disaster risk in sub-Saharan Africa
Urban Africa Risk Knowledge: Urbanisation, poverty and disaster risk in sub-Saharan Africa. 10 March 2015. DPU is a key part of a research consortium that has been awarded £3.3 million from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and…
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Policymakers attend student presentations on tackling economic development in London
Policymakers attend student presentations on tackling economic development in London. 25 February 2015. On the first Friday of February students from the MSc Urban Economic Development delivered the findings of a series of mini consultancy…
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DPU summerLab 2014 pamphlet now out - free download
The DPU summerLab 2014 series pamphlet is now available online.…
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Alumni Internship Programme Gets Underway in the Philippines
Alumni Internship Programme Gets Underway in the Philippines. 28 January 2015. Phase II of the Junior Professional Internship Programme run by the DPU in association with ACHR (the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights) and CAN (the Community…
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Alumni project tackling urban recycling featured at New York MoMA
Alumni project tackling urban recycling featured at New York MoMA. 21 January 2015. BUDD alumna Marisol Garcia (2010-11) with Ciudad Emergente, a collective practice based in Santiago (Chile), is featured as an example of Tactical Urbanisms for…
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Tracing peri-urban pathways to Water Justice
Can alternative water supply arrangements fill in the gap of peri-urbanisation without infrastructure in Kolkata, Cochabamba and Dar es Salaam?…
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Looking Back, and now Looking Forward into 2015 and beyond
Looking Back, and now Looking Forward into 2015 and beyond. 15 January 2015. We are delighted to share with you an ongoing project that began during our anniversary year. Looking Back, Looking Forward is a series of interviews recorded with former…
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The Curtain Falls on DPU60
The Curtain Falls on DPU60. 22 December 2014. As the calendar year approaches its end, so too do we draw the curtain on our 60th Anniversary celebrations. We formally closed DPU60 on Wednesday 10th December in an event where speakers from our four…
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Reflections on COP 20 - or was it COP -10?
Reflections on COP 20 - or was it COP -10? 15 December 2014. The 20th Conference of Parties in Lima represents the latest attempts by national governments from across the world to define a common purpose, enshrined in legislation, to combat the…
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Climate Change Governance in Cities: Why Experimentation is Essential
Climate Change Governance in Cities: Why Experimentation is Essential. 10 December 2014. An Urban Politics of Climate Change, a timely new book by Vanesa Castán Broto and co-authors Harriet Bulkeley and Gareth Edwards, is now available. The book…
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