DPU60 CONFERENCE
Thinking Across Boundaries: Re-Imagining Planning in the Urban Global South

London, UK
REGISTRATION DEADLINE CLOSED
DPU | Bartlett Development Planning Unit
UCL

The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), UCL, has the pleasure of inviting you to their 60th Anniversary Conference, 2-4 July 2014. The conference, is the highlight of a year of celebrations marking the DPU's 60 years of education, training, research, consultancy and knowledge sharing in urban and regional development policy and planning in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR DPU60 ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE

VENUES:
2 July 2014 | Darwin Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
3-4 July 2014 | British Medical Association (BMA) House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP

THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE
A range of speakers drawn from academia, practice and community organisation will be brought together with DPU staff, past and present, students, alumni, and others to deliberate on critical issues that guide the field of development planning.

The conference will focus on the following themes:
• A future for urban development planning? Thinking across boundaries;
• A future for urban development planning? Approaches to urban inequality and informality in cities of the global south;
• Participation and contested practices in urban design and planning: rights, needs and urban imaginaries;
• Re-imagining socio-environmental trajectories of change: Radical practices and approaches to environmental planning and governance;
• Forging new relationships in governance and planning: the state, market and society in a post economic crisis world;
• Urban Development and development assistance;
• Gender, intersectionality and socially just futures: Planning in an era of social polarisation;
• Positioning planning learning in an urbanizing world: the challenge of practitioner formation and the co-production of knowledge.

SESSIONS & SPEAKERS
• A future for urban development planning? Thinking across boundaries;
• A future for urban development planning? Approaches to urban inequality and informality in cities of the global south;
• Participation and contested practices in urban design and planning: rights, needs and urban imaginaries;
• Re-imagining socio-environmental trajectories of change: Radical practices and approaches to environmental planning and governance;
• Forging new relationships in governance and planning: the state, market and society in a post economic crisis world;
• Urban development and development assistance;
• Gender, intersectionality and socially just futures: Planning in an era of social polarisation;
• Positioning planning learning in an urbanizing world: the challenge of practitioner formation and the co-production of knowledge;
• Welcome and closing session.

For more information about the speakers please see the Event Flyer directly (pdf), or download the file from the download column.

REGISTRATION FEES
• Delegates | £170
• DPU Alumni & UCL Staff | £80
• Students | £60
• DPU Associates | Free

INFO & CONTACT
DPU60 Conference website

• Julia Wesely
E. | julia.wesely.13@ucl.ac.uk

The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
34 Tavistock Square - London - WC1H 9EZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1111 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 1112