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MSc Social Development Practice Awarded UCL Teaching Innovations Grant
The MSc SDP programme has been awarded a Teaching Innovations grant from UCL to undertake the project entitled ‘Engaging Leaders for Social Change: An Action-Learning Platform’.…
Development Planning Unit
Publication Launch. Regeneration and Well-Being in East London: Stories from Carpenters Estate
Publication Launch. Regeneration and Well-Being in East London: Stories from Carpenters Estate. 15 March 2013. Photo by Alexandre Apsan Frediani. The MSc Social Development Practice Programme is pleased to announce the launch and publication of the…
Development Planning Unit
DPU at the Asian Housing Rights Summit
DPU at the Asian Housing Rights Summit. 26 February 2013. William Hunter, DPU Teaching Fellow on the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development is currently attending and representing the DPU at the annual UPCA/ACHR/ACCA Regional Meeting being…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Kick-starts Junior Professionals Programme with ACHR in Southeast Asia
DPU Kick-starts Junior Professionals Programme with ACHR in Southeast Asia. 29 January 2013. This week the first class of the DPU/ACHR Junior Professionals Programme met in Bangkok along with Dr. Camillo Boano, director of the MSc Building and Urban…
Development Planning Unit
UN-HABITAT Best Practices Award to a Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) Alumni
UN-HABITAT Best Practices Award to a Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) Alumni. 22 January 2013. Camila Cociña , BUDD alumni (2011-12) and co-founder of the Chile-based NGO Reconstruye, has been selected as one of the 100 "Best…
Development Planning Unit
Meta-narratives of Phillippine Urbanism
In September 2012 the DPU’s MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) launched a ‘live’ case study project, “Meta-narratives of Philippine Urbanism”.…
Development Planning Unit
Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in the slopes of Bogotá hills, Colombia.
Mapping popular resistance and dwelling practices in the slopes of Bogotá hills, Colombia. 20 November 2012. The 'Heuristics' research platform interrogates the political agency of mapping and maps through two strategies. The first one called…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 149
Revisiting the links between education equality and inclusive citizenship…
Development Planning Unit
Exploring new partnerships in Asia
Exploring new partnerships in Asia. 15 September 2012. Camillo Boano and William Hunter have just returned from the Philippines where they visited various communities across Manila, Iloilo City and Davao City. Supported by the Homeless People's…
Development Planning Unit
DPU summerLab: Rome 2012
DPU summerLab: Rome 2012. 14 September 2012. The second annual summerLab Rome-Occupation City is now underway in the Italian capital once again ran in collaboration with Francesco Careri of Stalker/Roma Tre University. Camillo Boano, William Hunter,…
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