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Tiong Bahru: A Recipe for Transformation
Rapid commercial transformation in the neighbourhood has set the table for social change. But is gentrification on the menu? By Sean Lee...
Sean Lee & Lawrence Xi
Apr 23, 20217 min read


Building Bloomsbury 2025
The first-ever Building Bloomsbury Hackathon has come to an end, and what an incredible journey it has been! Over four days, UCL students...
Mar 163 min read
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Rootless: Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta
By Julian Gooneratne / Year 2 BsC Urban Planning, Design and Management Editors Note: Welcome to Post #2! We are planning to make shorter...
Jan 26, 20225 min read
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Rootless: belonging in an (un)planned world
By Julian Gooneratne / Year 2 BsC Urban Planning, Design and Management Editors Note: Julian graciously wrote about three cities he is...
Jan 15, 20224 min read
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'Shantytowns' Completely Eliminated: THE NEWER, THE BETTER?
Shanghai's Jing'an District has taken the lead in achieving the "Five-year Plan" to redevelop all '"dilapidated" houses under "Level 2"...
Nov 9, 20218 min read
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A Taste of Hackney
'Recipes for success or failure: vegan chicken shops, designer bags and Tesco towers.' By Oveis Rezazadeh and Kameliya Staneva Written...
Sep 21, 20217 min read
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Tiong Bahru: A Recipe for Transformation
Rapid commercial transformation in the neighbourhood has set the table for social change. But is gentrification on the menu? By Sean Lee...
Apr 23, 20217 min read
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Diverse Dalston: Good or bad?
By Bryan Goh and Jeremy Wong Written for the Cities and Social Change module, students are tasked to investigate a physical and social...
Apr 15, 20218 min read
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Cars and equ(al)ity: A look at transportation and social justice since the 20th Century
Written by Fola Olaleye The car played an important role in reshaping modern cities and offered a degree of freedom to people (as long as...
Mar 4, 20217 min read
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The 'Bi-polar' English Housing Market
Written by Alex Talbot The DSM-5 describes bipolar disorders as a group of brain disorders characterised by their tendency to cause...
Dec 12, 202011 min read
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Building Blocks: bridging big data and urban design
Written by Isabel Syrek Participate in building a new knowledge resource for students and staff at The Bartlett School of Planning Join...
Sep 29, 20204 min read
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Why data analytics should be taught to all planners
Written by Sean Lee I had a fruitful summer at Singapore’s JTC Corporation. A government-linked company (think QUANGO), it owns and...
Sep 21, 20204 min read
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My virtual working experience during the UK lockdown
Written by Gabriel Cooper Hey all, I’m Gabriel and I’m now going into my second year of studies (Urban Planning, Design and Management)....
Aug 24, 20205 min read
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Walkability
Written by Bryan Goh Like many bookworms, I have a severe addiction to buying books and reading them only a long while later. Jeff...
Aug 13, 20205 min read
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Introduction to Bartlett Urban Planning Society
Written by EXCO BUPS Committee Hi Everyone! We hope that you are doing well and keeping safe. Introduction With the ongoing COVID-19...
Jul 24, 20204 min read
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A city is not a tree, and nor is it an island: My call to arms for urbanists in an ecological crisis
Written by Henry Crabb (MSc Sustainable Urbanism) Many of us have spent lockdown admiring a raucous spring, watching life bounce into...
Jul 13, 20209 min read
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Summer Internship at the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) in Singapore | Bryan Goh
Hey everyone! I’m Bryan! A year 2 undergraduate pursuing Urban Planning, Design and Management. This summer, I completed a 2-month...
Nov 18, 20192 min read
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