DPU Blogs

The DPU produces engaging blogs written by staff, students, alumni and partners on a range of relevant and topical subjects

Our full collection can be found on our blog site.

Has the pandemic reinforced what we know about disaster risk management?

Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.

The possibility of emerging infectious diseases impacting on our societies is increasing, as our relationship with nature is changing due to climate change, land use change, and humans encroaching on the habitat of wild animals. Additionally, the global spread of emerging infectious diseases is more possible due to the increase in world travel, the global transport of food and intensive food production methods.

29th May 2020

Chile: Protect the campamentos!

Co-authored by Francisco Vergara Perucich and Camillo Boano

Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.

11th May 2020

Covid-19, urban mobility and social equity

Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.

4th May 2020

Gaza and the COVID-19 “Crisis”: Breaking the cycle of structural vulnerability first

Co-authored by Haim Yacobi, Michelle Pace, Ziad Abu Mustafa and Manal Massalha

Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.

21st April 2020

‘Stay at Home’: Housing as a pivotal infrastructure of care?

Co-authored by Catalina Ortiz and Camillo Boano

Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.

“people survive difficulty by coming together as communities of care, not pulling apart in a retreat into individualism” OluTimehin Adegbeye, 2020

“Housing is a condition to the right to life” Laia Bonet, 2020

6th April 2020

Urban economics in the time of Covid-19: What happens when the thing that makes cities great also makes them dangerous?

Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.

Many of the world’s most iconic cities are in lock-down. Bustling public places have emptied overnight. As the images below show, Times Square (New York) is eerily quiet, traffic disappeared from the streets of Shanghai. Even the pigeons are staying away from St. Mark’s (Venice).

1st April 2020

The Politics of Making Disability Visible in Community-led Urban Research

Last Tuesday 11^th February, we held the event titled “The Politics of Making Disability Visible in Community-led Urban Research” as part of the Dialogues in Development series at The Bartlett Developing and Planning Unit (UCL). The aim was to share reflections and learnings from the action-research project “Community-led solution: Assistive Technologies in Informal Settlements” – an on-going research project in four low-income urban communities: two in Freetown (Sierra Leone) and two in Banjarmasin (Indonesia).

26th February 2020