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Africa Regional Dossier published - key issues and propositions raised by civil society
Africa Regional Dossier published - key issues and propositions raised by civil society. 26 July 2016. The regional reporting process has been one of the key spaces for deliberation towards the production of the Zero Draft of the ‘New Urban…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 182
The power of urban street art in re-naturing urban imaginations and experiences…
Development Planning Unit
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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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Seminar for the Challenges of Chinese Cities’ Governance
Seminar for the Challenges of Chinese Cities’ Governance. 9 March 2016. With the most tremendous wave of urbanisation in human history, effective urban management is needed to address the unparalleled growth of Asian megacities. Urban Knowledge…
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