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UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities (GCSC): Outcomes
GCSC Publications
2012
UCL Lancet Healthy Cities Commission
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Stemming the Flow

Stemming the Flow: A New Direction for Climate Change Governance
A poster presentations from the Carbon Governance Project that considers the links between energy governance and climate change governance.
The presentation considers the tensions between the two regimes and argues that a more integrated approach is required to avoid conflicting agendas and to create synergies in policy making.
2011
Urban Water Poverty
A special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
A special issue of IJUSD covering Urban Water Poverty was edited by Adriana Allen (DPU) and Sarah Bell (CEGE). The special issue built on work supported by the UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities: a Public Panel discussion (pdf) and an Expert Symposium, led by Adriana Allen and Sarah Bell
This publication brings together diverse interdisciplinary perspectives seeking answers to the following questions:
- What do we know about urban water poverty and how to tackle it?
- What additional conceptual frameworks can shed light into the way in which water material and immaterial flows produce cities and accumulation and deprivation within them?
- What needs to be done differently if we are to put this knowledge into practice up to and beyond 2015?
More information about the special issue of the IJUSD
More information about the supporting events can be found on the Urban Water Poverty Project Page.
Adriana Allen is a Senior Lecturer at UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU) and Co-director of the Environment Institute theme on Sustainable Cities
Sarah Bell is a Senior Lecturer at UCL Civil, Geomatic & Environmental Engineering (CEGE) and Co-director of the Environment institute theme on Water Security
Food Junctions Cookbook

The Food Junctions Cookbook ties people together through a common interest in food, and represents a genuine collaboration between UCL, London’s local communities and beyond.
The Food Junctions Cookbook is more than a recipe book, it includes things to cook, but mixes in practice, politics and pleasure. Some 70 contributors share their ‘living recipes’ for things to eat, things to think about and above all things to do. Get yourself ready to try some of these living recipes: how to taste wine, open up a catering co-op, deal with food waste, prevent children obesity, make delicious dishes from wild plants and grow food in the city.
This Cookbook is another step on a collective journey that began with Food Junctions in 2010, which explored the significance of food, culminating in a festival that celebrated food in and as community, and shared new ways of thinking about what we produce and consume.
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*The book is sold on a not for profit basis: proceeds from sales are used to continue this project and to support local communities around London.
GCSC Reports
2010
2009
palette – The UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities launch publication (pdf 9MB)
perspectives – academic viewpoints from palette
Complete set (pdf 1MB)
- Prof Yvonne Rydin: Learning to Change
- Prof Matthew Gandy: Less Speculation, More Imagination
- Prof Mark Maslin: Future Vision of a Sustainable Zero-Carbon World
- Prof Mark Tewdwr-Jones: Governing London: World city, local tensions
- Prof Iain Borden: Sustainability and Architectural Design
- Dr Sarah Bell: Engineers' Identity Crisis
- Prof Tadj Oreszczyn: Our Innate Ability to Think of New Ways to Use Energy
- Adriana Allen: Sustainable Cities or Sustainable Urbanisation?
- Caren Levy: Urbanisation without Social Justice is not Sustainable
- Prof Michael Batty: How Big Can a City Get?
GCSC Events
2012
2.30, 30 May 2012
Shaping Cities for Heath: Complexity and the Planning of Urban Environments in the 21st Century
Lancet and UCL Commission
Denys Holland Lecture Theatre, UCL Faculty of Laws
More details about the UCL launch event for the UCL Lancet Commission's report
Watch Professor Yvonne Rydin's summary of the Healthy Cities Commission
Visit the dedicated website for the UCL Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities
Read the UCL Lancet report "Shaping Cities for Health"
Visit the Lancet Commission's page for the report
19 March 2012
London’s Energy Future
- London's Energy Future page on the London 2062 website
- London's Energy Future page on the Future of London
Download presentations
- Energy in London, 2062—Prof. Paul Ekins (PowerPoint)
- London's Energy Future—Peter North (PowerPoint)
- London's role in the UK energy system of 2062?—Bob Lowe (Powerpoint)
- London needs to be more like Copenhagen—Bob Fiddik (PowerPoint)
4 April 2012
London’s Housing Challenge
- London's Housing Challenge page on the London 2062 website
- London's Housing Challenge page on the Future of London
Download Presentations
- London's Housing Challenge 2062—Will McKee
- London 2062 housing—Sofie Pelsmakers
- London 2062—David Baptiste
20 April 2012
The Future of the London Economy
- Page for The Future of the London Economy on the London 2062 website
- Page for The Future of the London Economy on the Future of London website
Download Presentations
- London economy in 2062: Starting points, end point—Michael Edwards
- London 2062: The Future of the London Economy—Mark Kleinman
- London 2062: The Future of the London Economy—Jurgen Essletzbichler
23 April 2012
The Future of London's Transport
- Page for The Future of London's Transport on the London 2062 website
- Page for The Future of London's Transport on the Future of London website
Download presentations
- Crossrail and the Future of London Transport—Ian Lindsay (pdf)
- Pathways and Strategic Choices London 2062: Transport—Robin Hickman (pdf)
- London 20602–Transport for London—Richard de Cani (pdf)
- London 2602—Peter Hall (pdf)
2011
UCL–Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities Symposium
The Global Carbon Project: Anticipating the evolution of CO2 trends
Heritage and Climate Change: Protection at any cost?
2010
Planet U(CL): Embedding Sustainability in Universities
Lessons and Guidelines Drawn for Other Divided Cities
Urban Water Poverty – workshop
2009
UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities: Launch
The Age of Stupid – screening and panel discussion
Invisible – screening and panel discussion
Growing a New Piece of City: Designing a legacy for 21st-century London – panel discussion
Just Enough: Sufficiency and the cultural imagination – one-day symposium
UCL Energy Institute Launch
Climate Change: The biggest global-health threat of the 21st century
The UCL–Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change
City Visions – UCL Urban Laboratory Launch
Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice – Disaster risk reduction conference held in November 2009
GCSC Related Outcomes
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