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Prof Caren Levy
Professor of Transformative Urban Planning
Development Planning Unit
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 1st Oct 1988
Research summary
Teaching summary
MSc Teaching
DEVP0029: Urban Development Policy. Planning And Management: Strategic Action In Theory And Practice
DEVP0032: Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
DEVP0050: Gender in Policy and Planning
Supervision of PhD students – research topics
Preventing and Mitigating Urban Violence in LatinAmerica: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Role of Multilateral Development Institutions
The Emergence of a Slum Assemblage:Generative Processes and the Socio-spatial Morphology of a Mumbai SquatterSettlement
A Gendered Spatial Analysis of the Relationshipbetween Women’s Productive Work and Women’s Autonomy in the Household:Understanding Women’s Agency in Public and Private Space in Bangkok, Thailand
Empowerment and Gender in the Workplace:Experiences in Accounting and IT Firms in Mexico
Gender and Class in Welfare Organisations: The caseof Egyptian Private Voluntary Organisation
Sustainability of urban social projects: the caseof the Social Investment Fund in Chile
Architecture for the Urban Poor, the 'NewProfessionalism' of 'Community Architects', and the Implications forArchitectural Education: Reflections on Practice from Thailand
Education
- University of Cape Town
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 1973
Biography
I am a urban development planner with over 35 years’ experience of teaching,research, capacity building and consultancy. I work on urban planning, community-led developmentand governance with a focus on housing, infrastructure and transport, and landmanagement in urban areas in the Global South. I have a special interest inthe institutionalisation of social justice in policy and planning, particularlyrelated to the crosscutting issues of gender, diversity and the environment. Witha strong commitment to contributing to transformative practice, my research, teaching and consultancy explores and develops innovative approaches to planning methodology, planningeducation and capacity building, as well as to mainstreaming social justice inorganisational development. I work in London and in a range of cities inAfrica, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East with communities, governmentsand international organisations. I am currently Principal Investigator on a 4year GCRF supported research and capacity building programme, Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW),which works with 13 partners in 12 countries across Africa, Asian and LatinAmerica. I am a former Director of theBartlett DPU (2005-12) and Vice Dean International for the Bartlett Faculty of the BuiltEnvironment (2012-2019).