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Integrating Food into Urban Planning
Integrating Food into Urban Planning. 23 November 2018. Edited by Yves Cabannes and Cecilia Marocchino. The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that…
Development Planning Unit
BUDD alumni initiative selected as part of Athens' selection as European Capital of Innovation 2018
The initiative, Curing the Limbo, is coordinated by BUDD alumna Stefania Gyftopoulou with a Cases Review on Social Innovation in housing for refugees for the project currently being prepared by DPU's Camillo Boano and Giovanna Astolfo…
Development Planning Unit
Urbanisation and health in the 21st century: A Southern perspective
Urbanisation and health in the 21st century: A Southern perspective. 12 November 2018. A child plays next to an open sewer in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Unhealthy living conditions are an everyday reality for one in seven of the world’s population…
Development Planning Unit
Ecology of Desires: A closer look into the cooperative urban re-engineering
Ecology of Desires: A closer look into the cooperative urban re-engineering. 09 November 2018, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Availability. Yes. Organiser. Catalina Ortiz. catalina.ortiz@ucl.ac.uk. Location. LVMH Lecture Theatre…
Development Planning Unit
Walkable Santiago? Challenges for inclusive neighbourhoods in the XXI Century
Walkable Santiago? Challenges for inclusive neighbourhoods in the XXI Century. 08 November 2018, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. Alexander Macfarlane. alexander.macfarlane@ucl.ac.uk. Location. Room 2.01. Central House,…
Development Planning Unit
Post-War Syria: Reconstruction, Politics, and Justice
Post-War Syria: Reconstruction, Politics, and Justice. 08 November 2018, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. Yasmine Kherfi. yasmine.kherfi.17@ucl.ac.uk. Location. Roberts Building G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT in Roberts…
Development Planning Unit
Small places, big problems: Planning healthy environments in emerging African towns
Congratulations to Donald Brown who has successfully defended his PhD thesis…
Development Planning Unit
Brazil on fire? Protests, crisis and confrontations
Brazil on fire? Protests, crisis and confrontations. 02 November 2018, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. Alexander Macfarlane. alexander.macfarlane@ucl.ac.uk. Location. Room 403. DPU at Senate House, 4th Floor, Senate…
Development Planning Unit
DPU undertakes research comparing refugee resettlement schemes in the UK
In partnership with Citizens UK and under the supervision of Dr Andrea Rigon, MSc Social Development Practice students, Mahdi Alraie and Hannah Collins have analysed the new model of community sponsorship for the resettlement of refugees.…
Development Planning Unit
Comparative urban design: Border-Making Practices in Medellin and Beirut Book Launch
Comparative urban design: Border-Making Practices in Medellin and Beirut Book Launch. 18 October 2018, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm. Event Information. Open to. All. Organiser. Alex Macfarlane. alexander.macfarlane@ucl.ac.uk. Location. DPU@Senate House. 403…
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