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Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City
Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City. 21 June 2016. For more information visit UCL Press. About the book. Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration,…
Development Planning Unit
Untamed Urbanisms
Untamed Urbanisms. 31 May 2016. Edited by: Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis and Mark Swilling. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative…
Development Planning Unit
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus. 31 May 2016. Funded by the ESRC, the Nexus Network brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners to develop a holistic…
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Just sustainabilities - DPU contribution to UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report
Just sustainabilities - DPU contribution to UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report. 27 May 2016. UN-Habitat has just published the 2016 World Cities Report which is fully available online (). The report focuses on the emerging futures of urbanisation…
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The Challenge of Sustainable Housing in Livable Cities - DPU at European Habitat III
The Challenge of Sustainable Housing in Livable Cities - DPU at European Habitat III. 22 March 2016. The Habitat III European Regional Meeting took place in Prague between 16th and 18th March 2016. It covered the fifty-six Member States of the…
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The role of community media in the pursuit of sustainable urban development
The role of community media in the pursuit of sustainable urban development. 18 March 2016. What role does media play in urban development? How are crucial urban issues being reported to citizens? Is the urban journalist another key stakeholder in…
Development Planning Unit
The Prospects and Challenges of the SDGs in Asian Cities
The Prospects and Challenges of the SDGs in Asian Cities. 24 February 2016. Experiencing the largest wave of urbanisation in human history, a majority of Asia’s overall population will be living in urban areas by 2030. Effective urban management…
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Bringing Back the ‘Productive City’
Bringing Back the ‘Productive City’. 15 December 2015. Habitat III, a U.N. summit on human settlements that will take place in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016, is causing much excitement among urban professionals across the globe. The third of…
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Habitat 3 National Reporting Processes: Locating the Right to the City and the Role of Civil Society
Habitat 3 National Reporting Processes: Locating the Right to the City and the Role of Civil Society. 30 July 2015. Coordinated by Alexandre Apsan Frediani with Rafaella Lima. In collaboration with Habitat International Coalition Habitat III Working…
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7th International i-Rec Conference and Student Competition
7th International i-Rec Conference and Student Competition. 06 July 2015–08 July 2015, 12:00 am–12:00 am. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. Location. UCL. Disasters and crises are occurring more…
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