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Urban Infrastructure Projects and Displacement in Nigeria
Urban Infrastructure Projects and Displacement in Nigeria. 27 June 2016. The infrastructure backlog in Nigerian cities presents an enormous impediment to efforts to improve the well-being of the country’s urban residents. However, the land…
Development Planning Unit
Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia - DPU involvement
Lanes and Neighbourhoods in Cities in Asia - DPU involvement. 27 June 2016. This week Dr. Camillo Boano, Director of the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) and Urban Laboratory Co-Director and DPU PhD candidate Kisnaphol…
Development Planning Unit
Painting connections: call for proposals
Painting connections: call for proposals. 23 June 2016. The Painting Connections project is looking for artists to produce work on the theme of “the sharing economy” for an exhibition in Hackney Wick at the end of July. The works, preferably…
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda
Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda. 21 June 2016. From the 13th to the 17th June, 2016, the DPU and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL hosted a group of early career scholars discussing…
Development Planning Unit
UCL IEDE represented at Lightfair International conference
UCL IEDE represented at Lightfair International conference. 17 May 2016. Navaz Davoodian and Jemima Unwin, UCL IEDE staff members, represented UCL at LightFair International in San Diego 26-28th April 2016. Their seminar was well received by the…
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
UCL-Energy seminar: 'Developing secure, environmentally sound city and national energy systems' with UCL-Energy lecturer Dr Mark Barrett and research associate Dr Ed Sharp
UCL-Energy seminar: 'Developing secure, environmentally sound city and national energy systems' with UCL-Energy lecturer Dr Mark Barrett and research associate Dr Ed Sharp. 03 May 2016, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm. Event Information. Location. G01 Central…
UCL Energy Institute
Knowledge Exchange Programme - Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre UK Visit
Knowledge Exchange Programme - Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre UK Visit. 21 March 2016. Over the last two weeks, the DPU has had the pleasure to welcome and host members of staff from the recently established Sierra Leone Urban Development Centre …
Development Planning Unit
Call for Papers and Participants: Global Urbanisms, Regional Specificities
Call for Papers and Participants: Global Urbanisms, Regional Specificities. 21 March 2016. There is a very active debate in urban studies at the moment, exploring the limits of universalist theorisations of the urban while at the same time seeking…
UCL Urban Laboratory
Jo Williams wins UCL Grand Challenges fund to set up UCL Circular Cities Research Hub
Jo Williams wins UCL Grand Challenges fund to set up UCL Circular Cities Research Hub. Dr Jo Williams, in conjunction with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has succeeded in winning the UCL Grand Challenge bid to set up a university-wide research hub…
The Bartlett School of Planning
Medellin in motion: Governmental technologies of city-model making
Medellin in motion: Governmental technologies of city-model making. 4 March 2016. ‘Urban Governance and its Discontents’ was the hot topic at the latest Oxford City Debates event hosted by the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities Througha…
Development Planning Unit