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Re-imagining planning central to 2015 World Cities Report
Re-imagining planning central to 2015 World Cities Report. 14 October 2014. Reinvigorating planning and reinforcing political support for sustainable urban development will be among the key topics in the forthcoming World Cities Report 2015. The…
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
DPU at the UCL CALT Conference – 3rd April 2014
DPU at the UCL CALT Conference – 3rd April 2014. 7 April 2014. How do planners and ordinary citizens learn the city? How do we learn through maps and mapping? What capacities are activated / generated by such learning? Adriana Allen and Rita…
Development Planning Unit
'Contested Urbanism in Dharavi: Writings and projects for the resilient city' now free to download
Contested Urbanism in Dharavi: Writings and projects for the resilient city' now free to download. 2 April 2014. On the occasion of the 7th World Urban Forum in Medellin and DPU’s large presence at this event, the book "Contested Urbanism in…
Development Planning Unit
DPU part of side-event on Right to Housing at the 25th Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva
DPU part of side-event on Right to Housing at the 25th Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva. 17 March 2014. The guiding principles for Adequate Housing and Security of Tenure produced by UN Special Rapporteur in Adequate Housing and Human…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 168
Integrating the concept of urban metabolism into planning of sustainable cities…
Development Planning Unit
Launch of the Silk Cities platform
The DPU is delighted to announce the launch of Silk Cities.…
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
DPU Working Paper - No. 166
Nexus: New approaches to resourcing cities…
Development Planning Unit