UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities

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.

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

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.

*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.

UCL Grand Challenges Report 2008–2010 (pdf)

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?

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

• Launch event blog
• Watch the panel presentation video
• Watch the Q&A video

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)

The Ingredients of a Zero Carbon Zero Waste City: Evolving a ZEDquarter with examples from the ZEDfactory

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?

• summary and presentations
  

Planet U(CL): Embedding Sustainability in Universities

Lessons and Guidelines Drawn for Other Divided Cities

Cities Methodologies

The Future of Urban Studies

Return of the Slum

Urban Water Poverty – workshop

• expert presentations
  

UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities: Launch

• videos

Cinema & Climate Change

The Age of Stupid – screening and panel discussion

• UCL News
  

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

• podcast

Climate Change: The biggest global-health threat of the 21st century
The UCL–Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change

• film
• podcast
• BBC Today programme interview

City Visions – UCL Urban Laboratory Launch

• video

Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice – Disaster risk reduction conference held in November 2009

• Conference summary
• Special issue of Natural Hazards Review

Urban Constellations

Urban Constellations edited by Prof. Matthew Gandy (UCL, Geography) is an essay collection brings together a range of cutting-edge international scholarship on cities, urbanization and urban culture.  For more information and to purchase the book please visit the Jovis website.

• For more information and to purchase the book please visit the Jovis website.

The Third Industrial Revolution

Blog from Will McDowall (Research Associate, UCL Energy Institute) covering Jeremy Rifkin's lecture accompanying his book The Third Industrial Revolution.

Watch video here:

Urban Reflections

Urban Reflections: Narratives of Place, Planning and Change by Prof Mark Tewdwr-Jones (UCL Bartlett:Planning) looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change.

• For more information and to buy a copy please visit the Policy Press website.