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Land value capture for infrastructure: Towards the redistributive city
Land value capture for infrastructure: Towards the redistributive city. 3 August 2015. Earlier this summer DPU hosted an international workshop to consider the potential of capturing the monetary value arising from changes in land use (‘land value…
Development Planning Unit
Habitat 3 National Reporting Processes: Locating the Right to the City and the Role of Civil Society
Habitat 3 National Reporting Processes: Locating the Right to the City and the Role of Civil Society. 30 July 2015. Coordinated by Alexandre Apsan Frediani with Rafaella Lima. In collaboration with Habitat International Coalition Habitat III Working…
Development Planning Unit
Building reciprocal rural-urban linkages through infrastructure investment and development
We have recently contributed a Topic Guide for DFID’s Evidence on Demand information hub.…
Development Planning Unit
DPU contributes to discussions on Medellin's Strategic Spatial Plan
DPU contributes to discussions on Medellin's Strategic Spatial Plan. 26 August 2014. From August 21st to October 8th the work of community organizations, NGOs and universities in Medellin, Colombia on development alternatives for District 8 -…
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
WUF7 conversations on the road to defining the Habitat III agenda for cities
Last week many members of the Development Planning Unit attended the 7th World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia.…
Development Planning Unit
Field research in Nairobi for collaborative 'Urban Zoonoses' project
The DPU has been playing an active role in the collaborative research project ‘Epidemiology, ecology and socio-economics of disease emergence in Nairobi (i.e Urban Zoonoses)’.…
Development Planning Unit
Urban Mobility and Poverty: Lessons from Medellin and Soacha, Colombia (Spanish version)
Urban Mobility and Poverty: Lessons from Medellin and Soacha, Colombia (Spanish version). 5 June 2013. Dávila, Julio D (ed), 2013, Urban mobility and poverty: Lessons from Medellín and Soacha, Colombia, London: DPU, UCL and Universidad Nacional de…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 148
Relations between economic inequality and political dynamics in contemporary China…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 146
Exploring 'difference' in place-making…
Development Planning Unit