DPU Conference 'Thinking Across Boundaries: Re-Imagining Planning in the Urban Global South'

Registration is now open for the DPU60 Anniversary Conference. The event will be the highlight of a year of celebrations marking the DPU's 60 years of education, training, research, consultancy and knowledge sharing in urban and regional development policy and planning in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

A range of speakers drawn from academia, practice and community organisation will be brought together with DPU staff, past and present, students, alumni, and others to deliberate on critical issues that guide the field of development planning. The themes of the conference are:

• A future for urban development planning? Thinking across boundaries
• A future for urban development planning?  Approaches to urban inequality and informality in cities of the global south 
• Participation and contested practices in urban design and planning: rights, needs and urban imaginaries
• Re-imagining socio-environmental trajectories of change: Radical practices and approaches to environmental planning and governance
• Forging new relationships in governance and planning: the state, market and society in a post economic crisis world
• Urban Development and development assistance
• Gender, intersectionality and socially just futures: Planning in an era of social polarisation
• Positioning planning learning in an urbanizing world: the challenge of practitioner formation and the co-production of knowledge

The event will also see the launch of the 'DPU Reflections Working Paper Series' and 'The DPU's first 60 Years: A Short History' booklet.

Venues

2 July 2014: Darwin Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

3-4 July 2014: British Medical Association (BMA) House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP

Registration

Fees:

Registration includes buffet lunch and refreshments. Please note that spaces are limited, so sign up now to avoid disappointment. Registration will close on Wednesday 25 June.

Register now.