News

• DPU co-led interdisciplinary research project receives UCL Science Plus Grant
  Congratulations to the DPU’s Prof. Haim Yacobi who will co-lead the successful proposal titled “Overcoming Syndemic Urbanism: Health, Vulnerability and Communities’ Resilience”.
• In Memory of Vanessa Watson
  It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Vanessa Watson, a valued and much admired colleague of the DPU community.
• DPU co-led interdisciplinary research project receives UCL Science Plus Grant
  Congratulations to the DPU’s Prof. Haim Yacobi who will co-lead the successful proposal titled “Overcoming Syndemic Urbanism: Health, Vulnerability and Communities’ Resilience”.
• Video launched from DPU co-led project on ‘Creative Practice and the Anthropocene’
  The Open University / UCL initiative encompasses conversations, creative outputs, engagements, and writings designed to critically explore the many ways that arts-based thinking and publicly engaged practice might intervene productively in the current environmental crisis.

Events

Publications

• Getting from Here to There: Informality and accessibility challenges in Bogotá, Colombia, by Luis A. Guzman and Daniel Oviedo
• Checkpoint urbanism: Violent infrastructures and border stigmas in the Juárez border region, by Ricardo Martén and Camillo Boano
• Students Reports MSc ESD/SLURC Learning Alliance Transformative strategies for a just Freetown Edited by Rita Lambert and Pascale Hofmann
• DPU Working Paper – No. 209, Environmental leapfrogging to pro-environmental behaviours. A case study of a structural strategy in Taipei, Taiwan
  

Blogs

• Decolonising urban sanitation through celebration, by Nelly M Leblond

• Tren Maya: high hopes and contested development in the Yucatan Peninsula, by Naji Makarem, Étienne von Bertrab and Alessio Koliulis

In the media

•    Can Zimbabwe achieve housing for all? DPU’s Adriana Allen participated in a panel broadcasted by Zimbabwe’s Television Network to discuss the country’s new national human settlements policy.

Digital media

• Reconceptualising the field: Learnings or Lessons from remote practice engagement
• Neoliberal Apartheid and the Infrastructure of Policing
  DPU Dialogues in Development, 7 Oct 2021