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This post was prepared by Balint Horvarth, Mateo Lu, Fernando Toro, Nada Sallam and Karlene Stubbs with editorial support from Tim Wickson and Barbara Lipietz
The international field trip is an integral component of the MSc Development Administration and Planning (DAP). After months of desk-based research in London, our cohort traveled to Kampala, Uganda, to understand how development initiatives are formulated and implemented in a specific context.
Prominent academic debates around violence in the city most often seem to be concerned with how structural economic and political drivers codify violence into the urban space. To appropriate Harvey鈥檚 terminology, with how urbanisation by dispossession 鈥� in other words marginalisation 鈥� of urban groups contributes to increasing crime rates and gangs-related violence.
In April 2018 the Syrian government modified and extended an earlier Damascus-only urban reconstruction decree (Decree 66), to now be applied nationwide in Syria. This new law (Law 10) allows the Syrian government to award contracts for reconstruction to national and international investors, and to compensate citizens in the form of shares in regulatory zones.
This is a short story from a contested place: the town of Kilkis, located 40 km鈥檚 away from the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) where, as in other rural areas in Greece, the economic crisis brought unemployment and depopulation. For its crucial location at the crossroads of migration routes,听Kilkis听has also been at the centre of the tragic events during the so called refugee crisis of 2015.
By Conrad Heine with Michael Walls
Authors: Leong, Matilda; Vo, Son Nam; Kim, Hayeon; Korsi Simpson, Paul; Korsi Simpson, Peter and Allen, Adriana (Cockle Bay Group from the ESD MSc practice module)
In the early hours of Wednesday, 25 April 2018, the residents of Kola Tree in Cockle Bay were awakened to the shouts of fire. The blaze took place in the informal settlement located in the Western coast of Freetown and affected 97 people. Although there were no casualties reported, rampant loss of property, possessions and livelihoods were claimed by the incident.
With more than forty-five participants, the workshop and training 鈥淧eople-centred design鈥� held at Yangon Technological University (YTU) between 13th-15th February brought together students, community architects and academics from Yangon, Mandalay, Bangkok and London, consolidating strategic partnerships and adding new layers of engagement between DPU, YTU, Silpakorn University and the Asian Coalition Housing Rights 鈥� Community Architects Network.
As part of the DPU summerLab workshop series, the workshop 鈥淚nhabiting Edges鈥� took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, during September 2017. The workshop was led by Camila Coci帽a and Ricardo Mart茅n (DPU) and Silvia Covarino (Girne American University), and aimed to explore and critically understand the history and politics of Cyprus鈥� borders, navigating the complexities of the last divided capital city in Europe.
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