Urbanisation, Planning and Development
The 50th year of the MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies MSc (RUPS) was celebrated recently at the LSE, which over its history has educated over 600 students, from all around the world. Many of these have gone on to make significant contributions in the fields of planning, architecture and academia. It was therefore an exciting occasion…
On 23 September 2016, UPD cluster research student Meredith Whitten is participating in the Association for Public Service Excellence’s Parks & Open Spaces seminar held at City Hall. Meredith’s presentation, “Reconceptualising green space: Planning for urban green space in 21st-century London,” highlights her research in Inner London from an academic perspective. All of the other…
Announcing LSE Summer School Courses taught by the Cities Research Cluster Staff Several members of the Cities Research Cluster staff are to teach urban courses as part of LSE’s summer school programmes in London, Cape Town and Beijing. A brief outline of each course is presented below. You can find out more about the application details by…
Event Summary Inclusionary approaches to urban planning: lessons in poverty reduction from South Africa (Speaker: Professor Sue Parnell, University of Cape Town) Summarised by Dr Gareth A. Jones Academics rarely have much that is positive to say about urban planning in South Africa. Through colonial and apartheid eras, planning was often regarded and frequently shown…
Dr Antoine Paccoud Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE Researcher at Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) Email: a.m.paccoud@lse.ac.uk About Antoine’s research is concerned with bringing human geography into conversation with the ideas of contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou, and in doing so, to show that this philosophy can be compatible with…
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