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Urban Infrastructure Projects and Displacement in Nigeria
Urban Infrastructure Projects and Displacement in Nigeria. 27 June 2016. The infrastructure backlog in Nigerian cities presents an enormous impediment to efforts to improve the well-being of the country’s urban residents. However, the land…
Development Planning Unit
Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia - DPU involvement
Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia - DPU involvement. 27 June 2016. This week Dr. Camillo Boano, Director of the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) and Urban Laboratory Co-Director and DPU PhD candidate Kisnaphol…
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Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda
Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda. 21 June 2016. From the 13th to the 17th June, 2016, the DPU and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL hosted a group of early career scholars discussing…
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Knowledge Exchange Programme - Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre UK Visit
Knowledge Exchange Programme - Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre UK Visit. 21 March 2016. Over the last two weeks, the DPU has had the pleasure to welcome and host members of staff from the recently established Sierra Leone Urban Development Centre …
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Medellin in motion: Governmental technologies of city-model making
Medellin in motion: Governmental technologies of city-model making. 4 March 2016. ‘Urban Governance and its Discontents’ was the hot topic at the latest Oxford City Debates event hosted by the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities Througha…
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Urban Change in Iran
Urban Change in Iran. 14 January 2016. Edited by: Arefian, Fatemeh Farnaz, Moeini, Seyed Hossein Iradj (Eds.). ISBN: 978-3-319-26115-7. 'Urban Change in Iran' is based on updated versions of exerpts from the conference, hosted by DPU/UCL, that led…
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Urban Change in Iran
Urban Change in Iran. 13 January 2016. The book 'Urban Change in Iran' is now published. The book is based on updated versions of excerpts from the conference, hosted by DPU/UCL, that led to the start of the 'Silk Cities' initiative. The book…
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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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DPU and Njala University Joins Forces to Set Up the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre
DPU and Njala University Joins Forces to Set Up the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre. 20 November 2015. DPU and Njala University joins forces to set up the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre. The end of October marked the start of activities at…
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Urban Pamphleteer #5 - DPU contributions
Urban Pamphleteer #5 - DPU contributions. 22 September 2015. UCL Urban Laboratory has published the fifth edition of the Urban Pamphleteer, this issue focusing on Global Urban Higher Education, with a number of contributions from DPU researchers and…
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