Next week: CRUNCH - From the City of Plans
Thu 16 May, 18:30–20:00

Ruth-Anne Richardson (African Futures Institute) and Professor Julio D Davila (@dpu_ucl) explore architectural knowledge production and exchange across global and cultural divides.
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/archi…

It's not just toilets and buildings - but they're important issues!🚽 🏗️
Check out the news round up from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) which includes urban informality, distorting decoloniality & climate resilience.
As well as toilets & architecture 😊
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Do come along to Bogota to this major international event. Apart from outstanding scholars in the field, there will be field visits and Bogota has much to show in terms of making transport more accessible and fair to all Luis A. Guzman Grupo SUR Uniandes

Book launch: 'Informal Settlements of the Global South' - Join us!

⏰ 15 May, 4-6pm
🚪 Room 403, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU

This book challenges current global perspectives on human settling, mobility, and placemaking.

Find out more👇
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Join DPU's Prof Julio D Davila at the 2024 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research from 17-20 June in Colombia, hosted by Facultad de Ingeniería Uniandes Uniandes to hear insights on how innovation is transforming urban landscapes.

Learn more + register⤵️
evento.uniandes.edu.co/en/wstlur-2024…

Co-organised by DPU's Prof. Haim Yacobi, join UCL Health of the Public for the event 'Urban Health: A Dialogue Across Disciplines' on 18 June to hear from a range of experts and explore how we can leverage UCL's strengths in urban health.

Learn more & register⤵️
eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-health…

Creating green spaces for healthier communities 🌳The Bartlett School of Planning is helping Islington Council to improve urban health and climate resilience. Read the full story by Prof. Professor Catalina Turcu in #TheBartlettReview ⤵️
bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/londons-pocket…

Did you earn your first degree from a UK University between 2019 & 2021, identify as a racial minority & were charged home fees? Then join our study on COVID-19 and Closing the Undergraduate Awarding Gap. Dr Kamna Patel

Learn more & register your interest: forms.office.com/e/Nwp6RQsYBd

our #YUPCities team working w The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) SDP students have analysed the work of 5 youth organisations in #Solo

learning from successes & challenges of each other

Amazing working w Kota Kita

with facilitation from Alexandre Apsan Frediani & Joana CatalyticAction

funded by Fondation Botnar

Gotten your tickets yet? Join us for our next #DPU70 event where we will examine how the work of David Satterthwaite has influenced The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) and the wider field of urban environmental debates and practices.

📅 29 May, 4:30-6:00pm

Learn more and register👇
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Missed our recent events or would like to listen to our insightful podcasts on urban planning and development?

Explore them all here: mixcloud.com/dpuucl/

Over 3/4 of Ghanaians make up to 10 daily trips on foot, but African cities aren’t welcoming places for pedestrians.

Dr Daniel Oviedo The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) urges city planners to work with residents to find solutions to make urban neighbourhoods walkable.

theconversation.com/walking-in-afr…

Dr Paroj Banerjee Paroj (পরজ) Shila from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) recently presented her work 'Houselessness, NIMBYISM and the ‘in-between’ state: locating discourse and practices on rights to the city and dispossessive urbanism’ at the Urban Affairs Association International Conference on Urban Affairs in New York.

Nurturing environmental justice in Bogota: The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) ESD co-learning for action journey begins with Hector Hugo Alvarez, Tatiana Ome, Andrés Sepúlveda Guaches Y Guarichas - Juventud En Resistencia & more!

Join us if you can on 7th May. We have fantastic speakers Manu Luksch mukul patel Senel Wanniarachchi mahvish 🌹 مہوش and Hana Morgenstern. We will be exploring geographies of counter archiving. This event is part of our Imagining Futures commissioned project. The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) Srilata Ufaque paiker

Join our 70th anniversary celebrations! Register now for the next #DPU70 hybrid event where we'll be discussing actions shaping #urban environmental trajectories in the global South with David Satterthwaite.

📅 29 May, 4:30-6:00pm

Learn more and register👇
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

If you missed our seminar on urban visioning and radical imaginations with Dr Thaisa Comelli from UCL's Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, you can listen here: mixcloud.com/dpuucl/urban-v…

Congratulations to PhD student Nihal Hafez نِهَالْ who has received the IJURR.org grant to support her dissertation on the intersection between changes of political regimes and heritage practices.

Read more: ijurr.org/ijurr-foundati…

Congratulations to PhD student Alban Hasson who has successfully defended his thesis on the contributions of Urban Agriculture (UA) practitioners in London in expanding the political space towards a democratic food regime.

Read more on his research👇 ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

The OVERDUE project, led by Prof. Adriana Allen (@allenDPUadriana) is helping to understand and address long-term sanitation injustices across African cities.

Read all about this in #TheBartlettReview ⤵️
bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/tackling-afric…