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Discussions on Habitat III pick up speed at 14th World Social Forum
Discussions on Habitat III pick up speed at 14th World Social Forum. 24 March 2015. Civil society groups are currently discussing their expectations of the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) at…
Development Planning Unit
Learning Lima: Collaborative action-learning through mapping
Learning Lima: Collaborative action-learning through mapping. 15 October 2014. Learning Lima [] is an action-learning platform set up in September 2012 as a collaborative undertaking between DPU (Adriana Allen and Rita Lambert) and a number of…
Development Planning Unit
DPU running ‘Sustainable Cities’ summer school for UCL’s Global Citizenship programme
DPU running ‘Sustainable Cities’ summer school for UCL’s Global Citizenship programme. 9 June 2014. During the first two weeks of June the DPU is running a summer school for 60 UCL undergraduate students focused on the theme of ‘Sustainable…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 168
Integrating the concept of urban metabolism into planning of sustainable cities…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Windsor Workshop on land use in Dar es Salaam
DPU Windsor Workshop on land use in Dar es Salaam. 31 October 2013. This week has seen DPU’s annual workshop for students at Windsor. Each year, students from each of our MSc programmes, as well as the PhD programme, travel to the Cumberland Lodge…
Development Planning Unit
Implementing the Habitat Agenda. In Search of Urban Sustainability
Implementing the Habitat Agenda. In Search of Urban Sustainability. 4 November 2011. The Habitat Agenda was adopted at the second United Nations conference on Human Settlements 'The City Summit' in Istanbul in 1996, when governments of the world…
Development Planning Unit
Guidelines for Strategic Environmental Planning and Management of the Peri-Urban Interface
Guidelines for Strategic Environmental Planning and Management of the Peri-Urban Interface. 4 November 2011. These guidelines comprise three short volumes, a flyer, and a poster. They seek to provide a basic understanding of the processes involved…
Development Planning Unit
The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas
The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas. 4 November 2011. A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers written by some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the field of urban sustainability. The…
Development Planning Unit
Sustainable Urbanisation: Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas
Sustainable Urbanisation: Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas. 4 November 2011. The World’s development and environmental communities came together for the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. This summit produced a comprehensive vision for the future…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 133
What Crisis? Challenging the Urban Water Challenge of the Twenty-First Century…
Development Planning Unit