SHLC Bulletin

Introducing the SHLC Bulletin!

It gives me great pleasure to introduce our first SHLC Bulletin. In each Bulletin we will be sharing the latest publications, events and blogs from across the whole SHLC team as well as sharing the news and views from the sustainable communities sector. The SHLC Bulletin is intended to be an internal update keeping all SHLC team members up to speed on current and upcoming research, events and more. 
 
Do you have an article you want to promote? A new member of your team you would like to introduce? Have you read a recent paper you think would be useful for the SHLC team to read or is there an upcoming conference we should keep a look out for? Please share with our project team to be included in the next SHLC Bulletin: [email protected].

Time passes very quickly, we are now more than 18 months into our project. Looking back at what we have already accomplished, from the workshops in Glasgow to the recent fieldwork in Rwanda, I feel very proud to have the chance to work with so many wonderful colleagues from very diverse cultural backgrounds to address global urban challenges. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to the SHLC family and thank you for your input into and hard work on this very complex, but exciting project.

SHLC Research, Events and Blogs

Research:

• Cities as Platforms for Progress: Local Drivers of Rwanda’s Success 
• Tanzania: National Urban Policies and City Profiles for Dar es Salaam and Ifakara
• The Philippines: National Urban Policies and City Profiles for Manila and Batangas
• Bangladesh: National Urban Policies and City Profiles for Dhaka and Khulna
• India: National Urban Policies and City Profiles for Delhi and Madurai
• Rwanda: National Urban Policies and City Profiles for Kigali and Huye
• South Africa: National Urban Policies and City Profiles for Johannesburg and Cape Town

Events:

• Online Seminar: An Introduction to Creative Research Methods
• Seminar: Counter-mapping for Urban Social Justice 
• Public Lecture: The Future of Urban Research in Bangladesh

Blogs: 

• Picture This: Exploring Neighbourhoods in Johannesburg and Cape Town
• Studying Cities from the Inside Out: Why Partnership and Interdisciplinarity Matters
• A Powerful Idea that can Inspire Community Driven Development in Bangladesh
• Rwanda’s Clean CBDs Pique the Interest of South African Leaders
• Rwanda’s Neighbourhoods: In the Eyes of Two Bangladeshis

Picture of the Month

News and Views from the Sustainable Communities Sector

Do you have a resource you would like to share with the rest of the SHLC team? Email relevant research, articles, news and events to [email protected] for inclusion in the next SHLC update.

Research and Policy:

• Urban Planning – Call for Papers. Cogitatio Press.
• UN Habitat. 2019. How to Formulate a National Urban Policy: A Practical Guide. Prof. Debolina Kundu from SHLC partner National Institute of Urban Affairs is a contributing author.
• Glaster, G. C. 2019. Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves. University of Chicago Press.
• Orum, A. M. 2019. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446
• Deboulet, A. 2019. Rethinking Precarious Neighborhoods. Agence Française de Développement.
• Alex Schafran, Conor McDonald, Ernesto Lopez Morales, Nihan Akyelken & Michele Acuto. 2018. Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: urbanization and control as economic sectors. Regional Studies. 52:12, 1708-1719, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1464136
• Connell, R., Pearse, R., Collyer, F., Maia, J. M., & Morrell, R. 2018. Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge. The Sociological Review, 66(1), 41–57. DOI: 10.1177/0038026117705038

News and Opinion:

• P607-B Clark ‘green city’ to displace Aeta communities. By Inquirer.Net.
• Competing Imperatives in Rwanda's Education System. By Lonzen Rugira, Pan Africa Review.
• First UN-Habitat Assembly opens in Nairobi and elects President. By UN Habitat.
• Humans v the city: the staggering scale of Chongqing – in pictures. By The Guardian.
• ‘Population Mountains: a Story About How to Perceive the Population of Cities’. By Matt Daniels.
• Girls’ education in Bangladesh: A promising journey. By The World Bank. 
• Sustainable Urban Development - Where Sustainability Meets Practice. By World Urban Campaign. 

Upcoming Events:

• 26 September 2019: Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures International Conference
• 19-21 November 2019: Smart City Expo World Congress
• 27-30 November 2019: 15th International Asian Urbanisation Conference – Urban Futures: Critical Transformations in Asian Cities