Celebrating Pride Month 2025 at UCL 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Pride Month takes place in June – a month-long celebration and acknowledgement of LGBTQ+ communities and culture. 🔗 Read more on events happening this month plus key resources:

The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development 🏛️ . 📅 07–08 July 2025.📍 @UCLchildhealth. The conference will return to London in 2025 to place Chinese cities in a changing world and engage with a wider urban studies community. 🔗 Register:

💬 "We have to hand power back to people where they live.". Catch up on the latest BSP Public Lecture on 22 May by @KiMcGuinness, Mayor of the @NorthEast_CA, on the role of devolution in restoring local political agency. 🎥 Watch the recording:

🏆 The research paper 'Social Infrastructure and ‘Left Behind Places’' has been been awarded the 2025 Best Paper Award by @regstud. Congratulations to the co-authors across @UCL and @DurhamMiners. 🔗 Read more on the research:

📉 “More and more things are thought about simply through their financial value and less about their use value.” – Prof Mike Raco. As billionaire landlords reshape London’s West End, the city is at risk of being "hollowed out". 📖 Read in the @guardian:

Final report of the ADAPT4 project released 📄. Led by Prof Lauren Andres in collaboration with Université Paris-Est, ESPI-Paris, and Tokyo University, ADAPT4 tackled the question of how cities can rapidly adapt to future pandemics. 🔗 Read the report:

How can universities and communities collaborate for real impact? 🤝. Join us for a panel discussion and open debate on the benefits and challenges of university–community collaborations in urban planning research on Friday 04 July. 🔗 Register:

Congrats to our BSP colleagues on their 2024–25 promotions (effective 01 October 2025)! 🌟. 👏 Dr Jonas De Vos.👏 Dr Pablo Sendra .👏 Dr Michael Short.👏 Elena Besussi .👏 Dr Dan Durrant .👏 Dr Chris Foye .👏 Dr Tse-Hui Teh . 🔗 Read the announcement:

Exploring planning deregulation's consequences 🔍 🏘️. Missed our insightful session with Prof Ben Clifford in March? Don't worry! You can still catch up on the discussions about ‘permitted development’ and its problematic issues. 🎥 Watch the recording:

RT @TheBartlettUCL: Are you an overseas student planning to apply for a UCL master’s programme starting in 2025 & will need a visa? 🧳🎓. Sub….

Collaborations with China 🌏🤝. BSP were honoured to welcome a delegation from @Tongji_Uni & Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations to explore research in artificial intelligence, urban governance and cities. 🏙️ . 🔗 Read the news story:

Can AI help fix the UK’s planning backlog? 🤖🏗️ . BSP Professors Lauren Andres and Mike Raco explore how AI could revolutionise urban planning in the UK in a special UCL Policy Lab blog. 👉 Read the blog:

Book launch: Adaptable cities and temporary urbanisms 📚 . BSP's ‘Critical Dialogues in Comparative Urbanism’ Research Cluster will host the launch and round table discussion of Lauren Andres' new monograph. 📅 25 June 2025, 10:00 am–1:00 pm. 🔗 Register:

📢 Key UCL appointments to REF 2029 expert sub-panels to assess research quality across the UK. Research England has appointed BSP's Prof Nick Gallent as Chair of the Architecture, Built Environment and Planning unit of assessment. 🔗 Read the UCL news:

Research from BSP supports The London Assembly report on social value 📄. It finds that existing social value is still too often neglected during redevelopment, with research and evidence from BSP academics. 🔗 Read the news story:

Greenfield Planning in Tanzania 🌍. Led by Dr Martina Manara alongside @LSEnews, @GWtweets and @The_IGC, the research explores how greenfield planning can offer well designed alternatives to informal settlements in growing cities. 🏙️. 🔗 Read more:

Final report of the ADAPT4 project released 📄. Led by Prof Lauren Andres in collaboration with Université Paris-Est, ESPI-Paris, and Tokyo University, ADAPT4 tackled the question of how cities can rapidly adapt to future pandemics. 🔗 Read the report:

📗 New book alert!. BSP PhD student Suzanne Ghadanfar co-edits 'Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World', bringing together diverse perspectives on rebuilding communities in the Muslim world. 🔗 Read the news story and order now:

The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development 🏛️ . 📅 07–08 July 2025.📍 @UCLchildhealth. The conference will return to London in 2025 to place Chinese cities in a changing world and engage with a wider urban studies community. 🔗 Register:

Book launch: Adaptable cities and temporary urbanisms 📚 . BSP's ‘Critical Dialogues in Comparative Urbanism’ Research Cluster will host the launch and round table discussion of Lauren Andres' new monograph. 📅 25 June 2025, 10:00 am–1:00 pm. 🔗 Register:

RT @blogged_env: Can zero-carbon development be delivered through the existing English legal and policy planning framework? Paper by Willia….