Our statement welcoming UKRI exoneration of our colleagues is here The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) UK Research and Innovation

There's still time to grab your free tickets for our #DPU70 event with UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's Carolina Alves (Carolina Alves) discussing planning after capitalism. Join us this Wednesday online or in-person at 5:30pm. Michael Walls Alessio Kolioulis. Find out more & register: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Several BUDD and DPU alumni met at Limapolis 2124: Futures of the popular city. Organized by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Limapolis 2124 was an International and interdisciplinary design workshop.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Catalina Ortiz has been appointed as Director of UCL Urban Lab. She will take up her post in June 2024, and succeeds Professor Clare Melhuish, who has served a six-year tenure as Director since May 2018. ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/news…

Join us online or in-person on 9 April, 4:30pm for the book launch of 'High Stakes, High hopes'. The book tracks the building of urban theorising in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in South Africa. Find out more and register: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Term closure - Final group presentations Overseas Practice engagement Last Friday 15th, our students along with the @dap_dpu students, presented their findings before our trip to São Paulo, under the research project: Urban Struggles: Occupations as Radical Spaces.

Today, we are presenting the work of the group "Politics of transgressive Inhabitance" with the research question: How do the politics formed from individual and collective acts within the occupations in central São Paulo promote a new citizenship?

The DPU70 Special Edition is here✨ Themed 'Seventy Years of the DPU: Collective Visions for Change', the news issue focuses on the DPU's mission, vision, evolution throughout the years, the #DPU70 celebrations, and other highlights at DPU. Read it here⤵️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Last week, Prof. Camillo Boano met with some of the BUDD alumni from the Chilean Hub! We are very proud of the wider BUDD community that keeps enlarging and promoting just urban transformations across the globe!

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This Thursday 16th of May, BUDD students will be presenting the results of the Design Research in which they have been working for the Overseas Practice Engagement 2024 in São Paulo

Congratulations to all The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) students graduating today!🎉 Your hard work has paid off, and we can't wait to see where you'll go next!🎓✨

#DPU70 event: Fore-fronting Local and Regional Government Actions to Achieve SDG11 - Join us! ⏰ 12 June, 4:30-6:00pm Book your spot now to join us as we discuss upcoming challenges for the UN High Level Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development👇 ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Congratulation to all the BUDDies from the cohort 22/23 who graduated today! It was so nice to catch up with our now alumni and get to know about their exciting future plans! hashtag#DPU Dragons Power Up!.ucl hashtag#graduation hashtag#UCL @thebartlettucl hashtag#urbandesign hashtag#BUDD

We are delighted to welcome Dr Catalina Ortiz The Bartlett to the Urban Studies editorial team!

We are excited to announce this year's winners and runners-up of the annual DPU Short Film Competition 🎉 Congratulations to both student groups for their compelling and impactful films! Read more and watch the two films⤵️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/devel…

Check out the book chapter 'Displacement as Precarious Inhabiting: Care and Repair at the Urban Margins' written by BUDD's giovanna astolfo and Camillo Boano together with alumna Belen Desmaison as part of the book 'Beyond Houses'. link.springer.com/.../10.1007/97…

Congratulations to our BUDD members Catalina Ortíz and @giorgiotalocci for their promotions! Very well deserved!

UCL has announced its 2023-24 senior promotions. Congratulations to Urban Lab Director Catalina Ortiz, who is now Professor of Critical Urban Pedagogy, and Joe Penny (@penny_dropping), Programme Director for Global Urbanism MASc, now Associate Professor. ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/news/…

Congratulations to Dr @giorgiotalocci, Dr Donald Brown, and Prof Haim Yacobi for their paper being commended in the Planning Perspectives Prize 👏 Read their paper 'The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto' ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…