A special congratulations to our faculty member and visiting professor Reena Tiwari, who received an Australian National Award for Teaching Excellence for 2013. The Australian Awards for University Teaching recognize…
The annual AESOP congress organized by the Association of European Schools of Planning as a platform of exchange in the fields of research, education and practice in urban planning is…
The villas of Buenos Aires, also referred to as villas miserias, are informal settlements found in Argentina, mostly around the largest urban settlements. The term was adopted from Bernardo Verbitsky‘s…
Just recently, our guest professor Sergio Palleroni gave us the head’s up on this new publication titled The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World, a compilation of articles from…
How can we engage communities? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How does the researcher journey…
Last Friday, the Curry Stone Foundation named three winners of its 2013 Curry Stone Design Prize: Studio TAMassociati/Emergency of Venice and Milan for their health care facilities in war-torn areas;…
Last week students had the opportunity to learn from one of the development field’s pioneers of participatory planning, Nabeel Hamdi. This week we welcomed another heavyweight from the field, who,…
Next Thursday, October 31st, the retired senior lecturer from the Development Planning Unit (DPU) of the University College London, Ronaldo Ramírez, will be giving a talk at the Department of…
Some of the world’s top urbanists are gathered today at Rio de Janeiro’s City Transformations, the 12th Urban Age conference hosted by LSE Cities at the London School of Economics…
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) has announced the winner of the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge and the award goes to…Ecovative, a materials science company that has developed a new class…