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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…
Development Planning Unit
Gender, climate change and urbanisation: Revisiting the links
There is a growing body of work exploring the relationship between gender and climate change, gender and urbanisation, and the links between urbanisation and climate change.…
Development Planning Unit
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…
Development Planning Unit
The Prospects and Challenges of the SDGs in Asian Cities
The Prospects and Challenges of the SDGs in Asian Cities. 24 February 2016. Experiencing the largest wave of urbanisation in human history, a majority of Asia’s overall population will be living in urban areas by 2030. Effective urban management…
Development Planning Unit
DPU involvement at the 'Limiti Urbani/Urban Limits' workshop
DPU involvement at the 'Limiti Urbani/Urban Limits' workshop. 7 December 2015. The DPU’s Camillo Boano, MSc BUDD Director and Co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory was invited to participate in a workshop organised by UNIVERSUD and the Faculty…
Development Planning Unit
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
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China. 5 February 2015. In contrast to the popular imagination of being procedural or even the ‘enemy of business’ under neoliberal attack in the West, planning in China was resurrected after…
The Bartlett School of Planning
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China. 5 February 2015. In contrast to the popular imagination of being procedural or even the ‘enemy of business’ under neoliberal attack in the West, planning in China was resurrected after…
The Bartlett School of Planning