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DPU Dialogues in Development
31 December 2025, 2:30 pm–3:30 pm
The DPU's Dialogues in Development lecture series
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Organiser
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Alexander Macfarlane
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The DPU hosts a lecture series titled Dialogues in Development in which a diverse range of speakers working in the field of urban development are invited to share and discuss their work.
Dialogues in Development events range from panel discussions, individual talks, book launches and film screenings amongst other event types.
Please keep an eye on the events page for details of upcoming and past events. In the meantime you can view or listen to video recordings and podcasts of previous events below.
A full list of upcoming events can be found here.
- 2023-24
Towards an Inclusive Social Protection Among Pastoralist Communities in the Horn of Africa
Zeremariam Fre, Bereket Tsegay, Agenla Raven-Roberts, John Wibberley, chaired by Dr Lulsegged Abebe
6 Dec 2023theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
Oren Yiftachel, Faranak Miraftab and Catalina Ortiz, chaired by Chandrima Mukhopadhyay
29 Nov 2023Social Housing in the 2020s: Delivery and Management Models for a Just City
Raquel Rolnik and Massimo Bricocoli, moderated by Alan Gilbery
20 Sept 2023
- 2022-23
Commoning amidst Disasters and Dysfunctional States: Actors and Governance of the Urban Recovery of Beirut
Mona Harb
16 Jun 2023Architecture of the Territory: Constructing National Narratives in the Arab World
Hosted by Hanadi Samhan
8 Jun 2023State-sponsored Violence and Development: Ethiopia, Palestine and Ukraine
Hosted by Michael Walls
6 Jun 2023Compressed Natural Gas Buses in India: Seeing through the Air Pollution Lens, Darkly
Madhav Badami, chaired by Julio D. Dávila (DPU)
1 Jun 2023Governmentality and urbanism: Reflections on five decades of change in China
Prof. Le-Yin Zhang (DPU) and Prof. Fulong Wu (Bartlett School of Planning), chaired by Prof. Julio D. Dávila (DPU)
7 Mar 2023Designing child-friendly cities: play spaces outside playgrounds
Dr Andrea Rigon
8 Feb 2023Perpetual Emergency: A Personal Journey of Climate Change, Conflict and Famine in Somalia
Dr Emmanuel Osuteye and Nuradin Aden Dirie
2 Feb 2023Artefacts of Resistance: Creating Archives of Transnational Protest Movements
Dr Raktim Ray
20 Jan 2023East Jerusalem intensified planning during Pandemic
Rami Nasrallah
9 Nov 2022Book introduction of Patriarchal Hierarchy; Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan
Kambaiz Rafi
8 Nov 2022Book launch of 'Cities for Human Development: A Capability Approach to City-Making'
Alexandre Apsan Frediani
21 Oct 2022DPU Book launch - The Value of a Whale On the Illusions of Green Capitalism'
Adrienne Buller
5 Oct 2022
- 2021-22
DPU Book launch - Somewhere to Live: Rising to the global urban land and housing challenge
Geoffrey Payne
30 May 2022Planning for equitable futures
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
14 March 2022Book launch - Youthquake: Why African Demography Matters
Edward Paice
3 March 2022Researching development planning during pandemics: ethics, methods and impacts
Hosted by Camillo Boano
26 Jan 2022Co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement
Hosted by Andrea Rigon
2 Dec 2021Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order
Hosted by Haim Yacobi
7 Oct 2021- 2020-21
Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order
Hosted by Juliano Fiori
14 July 2021Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in environmental justice debate
Hosted by Cassidy Johnson
17 June 2021Book launch of Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South
Hosted by Michael Walls
10 June 2021De-Planning Cyprus: A Socio-Ecological Vision
Hossein Sadri
29 April 2021Trajectories of spatial violence in Southeast Asian cities. Report launch
Hosted by Catalina Ortiz
9 Mar 2021Teaching southern architecture and urbanism within a changing western higher education context
Ola Uduku
4 Feb 2021Debating resilience: complexity, contradictions and optimism
Hosted by Prof Cassidy Johnson and Dr Julia Wesely
18 Jan 2021Decalogue for Participatory Slum Upgrading in pandemic times
Hosted by Dr Catalina Ortiz
10 Dec 2020City Unfinished: Lima and reflexions on longitudinal film
Hosted by Dr Rita Lambert
2 Dec 2020Integrated studies on the emergence of zoonoses in urban settings
Hosted by Prof Haim Yacobi
12 Nov 2020Healing and rebuilding Beirut: Lessons from a city demanding political and social change
Hosted by Prof Hai Yacobi
15 Oct 2020- 2019-20
Climate change and urban deltas: Design research for adaptive strategies across scales
Kelly Shannon
13 Feb 2020From DPU to Local Government: Inclusive economic development in theory and in Islington
Cllr Asima Shaikh
16 Jan 2020The urban challenges of implementing SDGs in the social uprising in Latin America
Mr. Elkin Velasquez Monsalve
10 Dec 2019Urban transformations, transport and health: The case of Transmicable in Bogotá
Dr Luis Angel Guzman
20 Nov 2019Social and Spatial Justice: The Home as a Contact Zone in Israel - Palestine
Professor Tovi Fenster
16 Oct 2019- 2018-19
Displaceability – the new foundation of urban citizenship?
Oren Yifachel
23 May 2019Climate change and urban planning in the Caribbean: Planning for sustainability
Arturo Samper
28 February 2019Lives through an extending urbanism
Professor AbdouMaliq Simone
30 January 2019State-building in Somalia: federalism, security and development
Nuradin Dirie
15 January 2019Walkable Santiago? Challenges for inclusive neighbourhoods in the XXI Century
Dr. M. Geraldine Herrmann-Lunecke and Dr. Jorge Inzulza-Contardo
8 November 2018Post-War Syria: Reconstruction, Politics, and Justice
Michael Walls, Sawsan Abou Zainedin and Ibrahim Olabi
8 November 2018Brazil on fire? Protests, crisis and confrontations
Jean Tible and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
2 November 2018Accessing justice and addressing urban inequalities through community paralegal services in Nigeria
Andrew Maki
4 October 2018- 2017-18
Socio-spatial processes in Mexico City. Academic views and citizen perceptions
Effi Bournazou
24 May 2018Partnering higher education institutions for social and environmental justice in the Global South
Dr Joseph Macarthy, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC), Dr Andrea Rigon (DPU)
14 November 2017Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Dr. Eyal Weizman13 November 2017
India: the urban transition – a case study of development urbanism
Henrik Valeur
12 October 2017- 2016-17
Urban Futures and Climate Change in India: impacts and implications
Aromar Revi
24 May 2017Towards an autonomy of housing
Dr Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, John F.C. Turner
21 February 2017The SDGs: a tool for peacebuilding in Colombia
Felipe Castro
7th February 2017The Holy City of Makkah. Growth, Informal Areas and Urban Identity
Dr Muhammad Kadhim
1 December 2016Informal Institutions Shaping Refugee's Cities. Lessons From Lebanon
Dr. Nasser Yassin
28 November 2016The 'New Urban Agenda' and the potential for change
Dr. Barbara Lipietz, Prof. David Satterthwaite, Dr. Le-Yin Zhang and Prof. Adriana Allen
22 September 2016- 2015-16
Reducing relocation risk: Emerging issues
Yves Cabannes, Arabella Fraser, Colin Marx, Julian Walker, Emily Wilkinson
August 2016The story of the Urban Resource Centre, Karachi
Arif Hasan
March 2016Nature in the city: Bengaluru in the past, present, and future
Harini Nagendra
March 2016Medellin: An urban citizen project
Jorge Perez
February 2016Urban development in Sierra Leone
Dr. Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Dr. Joseph Macarthy
February 2016- 2014-15
Contested urbanism - learning from London, Stokholm and Jerusalem
Dr. Jonathan Rokem
June 2015Pro-poor city-wide sanitation: Reflections from Dar es Salaam
Mwanakombo M. Mkanga, Husna Seif Shechonge, Ruth McLeod, Pascale Hofmann
March 2015A Somali nation-state: History, culture and Somaliland's political transition
Dr. Michael Walls
February 2015HIV/AIDS in informal settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa: Views from practice
Caroline Kabiru, Heriana Mwakipunda, Mirjam van Donk
January 2015