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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…
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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…
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Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City
Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City. 21 June 2016. For more information visit MyAV·¶ Press. About the book. Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration,…
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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 MyAV·¶ hosted a group of early career scholars discussing…
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Untamed Urbanisms
Untamed Urbanisms. 31 May 2016. Edited by: Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis and Mark Swilling. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative…
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Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus
Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities – DPU at Urban Nexus. 31 May 2016. Funded by the ESRC, the Nexus Network brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners to develop a holistic…
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Reflexive Development Practitioners: The 3rd Wave of the DPU/ACHR/CAN Internship Programme Launched
Reflexive Development Practitioners: The 3rd Wave of the DPU/ACHR/CAN Internship Programme Launched. 31 May 2016. Learning by doing is at the core of promoting socially minded development practices. As part of a long-standing partnership between…
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Just sustainabilities - DPU contribution to UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report
Just sustainabilities - DPU contribution to UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report. 27 May 2016. UN-Habitat has just published the 2016 World Cities Report which is fully available online (). The report focuses on the emerging futures of urbanisation…
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Lessons for Fort McMurray's long road ahead to rebuilding – Cassidy Johnson on CBC Radio One
Lessons for Fort McMurray's long road ahead to rebuilding – Cassidy Johnson on CBC Radio One. 23 May 2016. Throughout May 2016 massive wildfires have been sweeping through western Canada leaving behind a trail of devastation. Beginning just…
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DPU at Pioneer Peripheries
DPU at Pioneer Peripheries. 13 May 2016. On Thursday 12 Mayand Co-director of the MyAV·¶ Urban Laboratory, spoke at an event in Rome organised by the association Temporiuso and the Italian Ministry of Culture and Heritage, General Directorate of Arts,…
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