It is Week 2 of the new academic year and our students have moved on to the three-week Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements course. It started off with Post-Disaster Planning from…
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This week our third-time visiting professor Nabeel Hamdi is back at our campus to lead his workshop on Participatory Urban Planning. The Oxford Brookes professor, considered one of the earliest…
Next Monday at 12pm we welcome scholar Aditya Kumar, who will be give an open lecture on community based planning in managing disaster reconstruction, post-war reconstruction and slum upgrading. Kumar…
On June 6-8, in New York City, Planners Network and Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) will co-host “Beyond Resilience: Actions for a Just Metropolis, a progressive, practice-based planning conference that…
Disaster Risk Reduction in the Informal City by Cristina Castelao | Supervisor: Raquel Colacios Informal construction is the bulk of construction worldwide. However, in the curricula of the Schools of…
Peripheral Urban Renewal and Contemporary Social Responses: The case of Bon Pastor by Chris Govers | Supervisor: Dr. Carmen Mendoza The city of Barcelona has been undergoing a process of…
Role of Planning and Design in Turning a Culturally Divided City into an Inclusive Cosmopolis: Analyzing the Post-War Reconstruction in Beirut by George Kassab | Supervisor: Claire Colomb, PhD Civil…