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DPU Working Paper - No. 197
Refugee women and the Right to Inhabit: Reconceptualising refugee women’s Right to the City in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon…
Development Planning Unit
BUDD alumni initiative selected as part of Athens' selection as European Capital of Innovation 2018
The initiative, Curing the Limbo, is coordinated by BUDD alumna Stefania Gyftopoulou with a Cases Review on Social Innovation in housing for refugees for the project currently being prepared by DPU's Camillo Boano and Giovanna Astolfo…
Development Planning Unit
DPU undertakes research comparing refugee resettlement schemes in the UK
In partnership with Citizens UK and under the supervision of Dr Andrea Rigon, MSc Social Development Practice students, Mahdi Alraie and Hannah Collins have analysed the new model of community sponsorship for the resettlement of refugees.…
Development Planning Unit
Refugee Self-Reliance and Humanitarian Action in Urban Markets
Refugee Self-Reliance and Humanitarian Action in Urban Markets. 23 June 2017, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. Location. Rendezvous Space, 1st Floor Save the Children UK, 1, St…
Development Planning Unit
'Human, Economic and Social Flows beyond Crisis' programme begins
DPU and the Humanitarian Affairs Team of Save the Children UK are delighted to announce their new programme "Human, Economic and Social Flows beyond Crisis: Understanding the Urbanitarian".…
Development Planning Unit
Faculty Materialisation Grant 2016 awarded to ‘Refugee Cities: the Actual Spaces of Migration’
We are delighted to announce that the DPU led interdisciplinary 'Refugee Cities' research project has received the Faculty Materialisation Grant 2016.…
Development Planning Unit
Borders and camps - Life at the edge of Europe
Borders and camps - Life at the edge of Europe. 30 June 2016. There is no doubt that borders are as contested, fragile and unstable as the political, legislative and normative agreements surrounding them. Following the results of the referendum,…
Development Planning Unit
Borders and camps - Setting an initial research agenda
Borders and camps - Setting an initial research agenda. 19 April 2016. Makeshift camps, created in various and dynamically changing locations across Europe (near and within cities, ports, forests, borders), have become an integral part of the…
Development Planning Unit
Is social integration the approach for connecting refugees and asylum seekers to cities?
Is social integration the approach for connecting refugees and asylum seekers to cities? 9 February 2016. In the face of increasing forced migration, cities have the imperative to deal with refugees and asylum seekers. Their presence in contemporary…
Development Planning Unit
A Playground for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon
A Playground for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon. 4 September 2015. DPU Alumni have spent the last year working to build a playground for Syrian refugee children living in Bar Elias, Lebanon. Riccardo Conti, Joana Dabaj and Laura Antona, former…
Development Planning Unit