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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on the issues around urbanisation, including urban poverty, environmental health and climate-related risks, often working with grassroots organisations whose participation in decision-making processes is vital in effecting change.

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Building transformative urban resilience for all

A programme of work understanding the nature of risk for people living in urban centres of the global South, in order to support community, city, national and global efforts to build resilience

Better cities are possible: achieving resilient, low-carbon and inclusive urban development

A series of articles exploring the critical shifts in governance, policy and action needed to transform informal settlements on a warming planet

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Man walking alongside a main road going through a small town in Uganda.

Measuring small towns – why definitions matter?

Insight, 27 November 2024

Aerial view of a cities with packed informal settlements in the foreground and skyscrapers in the background.

Climate resilience and informal settlements: the urgent need to focus on how power and knowledge interact

Article, 30 October 2024

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The SECURe framework: an approach to thinking about power and politics when using co-production interventions for urban resilience

Publication, 23 September 2024

A seated man talks to a group, while a women alongside watches on. Behind them is a board advertising DPU - the Development Planning Unit at UCL.

Fifty years shaping the urbanisation agenda

Impact story, 21 May 2024

A bearded man stands at a podium with a screen behind him.

Urban legend: one man, 50 years, countless seeds of hope

Long read, 13 May 2024

A tall metal water tower with several small brick buildings around it.

Community-led climate action: building equitable, resilient cities from the bottom up

Insight, 02 May 2024

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Urban resilience past, present and future: celebrating David Satterthwaite

Event on 14 May 2024

A view of Beijing across the river. There are trees and greenery in the foreground.

China's urbanisation conundrum: balancing economic growth and human wellbeing

Insight, 30 April 2024

Guangzhou street scene.

Is China’s rate of urbanisation too fast or too slow?

Insight, 15 April 2024

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Defending housing rights in Lagos. A historical perspective on state-citizen contestations and emerging opportunities for housing policy reform

Publication, 12 December 2023

Houses next to a canal.

Burgeoning growth of deltaic cities puts lives and livelihoods at risk

Insight, 09 October 2023

Houses on stilts along a river

Huge population growth in major river deltas puts tens of millions at increased risk from climate change floods

Press release, 26 September 2023

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Towards queer-centred urban development

Publication, 13 July 2023

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Enabling city resilience bonds

Publication, 26 June 2023

Row of motorbikes parked on the road.

The rise of the motorbike

Insight, 25 March 2022

A motorbike rides through a flooded road. A woman tries to cross the road from the left hand side pavement.

IPCC report signposts pathways to climate-resilient future for cities

Insight, 09 March 2022

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From protector to evictor of slum residents – reversal of roles for the judiciary

Insight, 24 February 2022

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The case for treating long-term urban IDPs as city residents

Publication, 14 September 2021

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New coalition to transform cities – and lives

News, 10 May 2021

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Urbanization and fertility decline: Cashing in on Structural Change

Publication, 01 December 2013

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More inclusive cities in East Africa: working with politics and informality

Publication, 01 February 2020

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Financing sanitation for low-income urban communities: Lessons from CCODE and the Federation in Malawi

Publication, 01 January 2016

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Is urbanization contributing to higher food prices?

Publication, 01 August 2009

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Urban ARK 1: Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge – A Research Agenda

Publication, 01 January 2017

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