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Habitat III conversations continue: Prepcom 2 in Nairobi
Habitat III conversations continue: Prepcom 2 in Nairobi. 16 April 2015. The second session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) is convening this week in Nairobi.…
Development Planning Unit
ISH Director undertakes Impact Fellowship at BIS
ISH Director undertakes Impact Fellowship at BIS. 17 March 2015. Professor May Cassar, Director of UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage (UCL ISH), is to undertake an eighteen-month secondment in the Research Base of the Department for Business,…
UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage
Parliament launch for UCL-Energy time of use tariff report
A UCL-Energy report on consumer demand for time of use electricity tariffs was launched yesterday in Parliament.…
UCL Energy Institute
Reflections on COP 20 - or was it COP -10?
Reflections on COP 20 - or was it COP -10? 15 December 2014. The 20th Conference of Parties in Lima represents the latest attempts by national governments from across the world to define a common purpose, enshrined in legislation, to combat the…
Development Planning Unit
From Consensus to Representation: Democratic transition in the Somali Horn
From Consensus to Representation: Democratic transition in the Somali Horn. 4 December 2014. Somaliland, an unrecognised nation-state in the Horn of Africa, is under pressure to ‘ democratise’. But what does this mean in practice? In hisexamines…
Development Planning Unit
Making Sense of HIV/AIDs in Informal Settlements in sub-Saharan Africa
Making Sense of HIV/AIDs in Informal Settlements in sub-Saharan Africa. 13 November 2014. From 30th – 31st October 2014, we hosted a workshop which focused on Conceptualising the interactions between HIV and AIDS and urban informal settlements in…
Development Planning Unit
Community Action and Planning
Community Action and Planning. 10 September 2014. A new book by Professor Nick Gallent, head of The Bartlett School of Planning and Professor Daniela Ciaffi, University of Palermo. With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups…
The Bartlett School of Planning
#162. From master plans to city development strategies
162. From master plans to city development strategies. 1 July 2014. Up to the twentieth century, city self-government and self-financing was historically the norm. Then both a major slump and two world wars impelled in Europe the centralization of…
Development Planning Unit
UCL-Energy researcher presents to House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee
UCL-Energy researcher presents to House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee. 17 March 2014. UCL-Energy and UCL ISR researcher Will McDowall has given evidence at the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee on low carbon…
UCL Energy Institute
DPU Working Paper - No. 162
From master plans to city development strategies…
Development Planning Unit