The 5th World Urbanisms Seminar focused on design responses to climate change taking place in Leuven from 28-30 June 2018, is accepting abstracts from doctoral students in the field of…
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The lasting legacy of patriarchy has it that the study of gender inequality is essentially a story of female discrimination. All you have to do is look at the headlines…
“In terms of access to housing and right to the city, the question is, how do you help poor people access enough power to lay claim to space?” This week…
UCL’s Bartlett Devleopment Planning Unit, with whom we partnered last year for their DPU Summer Lab in Barcelona, has published a pamphlet showcasing the reflections that emerged during the four…
Although access to clean, safe water is a basic human right, one in 10 people still drink water from unprotected sources. The global water crisis is such that its effects…
For those with an interest in bottom-up spatial practices, Teddy Cruz is a familiar name. For over two decades, the Guatemalan-born architect has researched conflict zones and cross-border urbanism, most…
The final draft of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), a 20-year roadmap to sustainable urban development agreed upon at the Habitat III conference in Quito last week, features the word…
You would be hard-pressed to find an architect or urban planner who doesn’t have at least a handful of these titles resting proudly on their bookshelf. After all, when it…
“Participation” is the buzz word when it comes to socially responsible design, but what does it take to achieve genuine community engagement in the production of spaces? And what does…
Our visiting faculty member Reena Tiwari was recently featured by cultural geographer Kevin S. Fox from Connecticut on his hour-long radio program Geographical Imaginations, “brief expeditions into the geographies of…