Ms Caren Levy
The Development Planning Unit conducts world-leading research and postgraduate teaching that helps to build the capacity of national governments, local authorities, NGOs, aid agencies and businesses working towards socially just and sustainable development in the global south. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment.
Profile
Biography
Urban development planner working on planning, community-led development and governance, with a focus on housing, infrastructure and transport in urban areas in the global South. She has a special interest in the institutionalisation of social justice in policy and planning, particularly related to the cross-cutting issues of gender, diversity and environment. In these fields, she has 25 years experience of teaching, research, training and consultancy in mainstreaming social justice in organisational development, and exploring innovatory approaches to planning methodology, planning education and capacity building. She works both in London and abroad for governments and international organisations, including UN Habitat, ILO, EU, DFID, SDC, SIDA, and in-country, including Egypt, Namibia, India, Sri Lanka, Chile and Brazil.
Research Summary
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Research outputs
| Travel choice reframed: "deep distribution" and gender in urban transport | 2013 | Levy C |
| Commonwealth Capacity Building for Planning: Review of Planning Education Across the Commonwealth | 2011 | LEVY C,Mattingly M,Wakely P |
| House Of Commons Inquiry Into Urbanisation And Poverty: Evidence Presented By The Development Planning Unit, UCL | 2009 | LEVY C,Cabannes Y |
| Urbanisation Without Social Justice is Not Sustainable | 2009 | LEVY C |
| Gender justice in a diversity approach to development? The challenges for development planning | 2009 | LEVY C |
| Review of SDC Gender Training, 1997-2005 | 2007 | LEVY C |
| Planning and housing in the rapidly urbanising world | 2007 | LEVY C |
| Training Impact Evaluation (TIE): Final Report | 2006 | LEVY C,Kyrou E,Walker J |
| Towards Gender Equality: Capitalization of SDC Experience in Gender Mainstreaming | 2005 | LEVY C,Taher N,Vouhé C,Walker J |
| Tracking a Learning Alliance to Manage Risk | 2004 | LEVY C,Satterthwaite D |
Research activities
| HIV and AIDS and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) |
| Local governance, urban mobility and poverty reduction. Lessons from Medellín, Colombia |