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Mission Statement

The Global Urban Lab is a communication and action platform, which is part of the TU Delft | Global Initiative. Our goal is to bring visibility and articulation to TU Delft staff and students doing work on urbanisation in the Global South (Low and Middle Income Settings). Next to hosting discussions, lectures and events, the Global Urban Lab predominantly wants to connect and build knowledge: serving as a platform throughout all faculties, schools, and departments for researchers and practitioners to meet, learn and collaborate in a transdisciplinary manner.

Global

In a context of social, political and environmental unrest, there is an urgent need for developing alternative solutions and relations on a global scale. Therefore, the Global Urban Lab wants to share alternative views and knowledge without the traditional Global North centrism, in order to create a positive collaboration between di!erent areas of the planet.

Urban

From a wider perspective, the idea of “urban” includes a broad multiplicity of sites, forms and scales, from the most remote settlements up to global metropolises. This approach sees urbanisation as a process, not as a goal or fixed category, that overcomes and increasingly diffuses the traditional divide between ‘the rural’ versus ‘the urban’.

Lab

The platform aims to actively seek the connection outside of the academic realm, proposing itself as a space for experimentation and action, informing public, private and civic initiatives of innovative research happening at TU Delft.

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Report: The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19

Published on: 15.01.2021

The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19

We have released the report to The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19

The report summarises the three-part event which took place in June 2020:

- Perspectives from the Global South
- The Green New Deal
- Housing in Africa

This is one of many Urban Thinkers Campus events created in partnership with UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)'s World Urban Campaign.

Take a look at the report here.

Find out more about the UTC here.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/65198122/the-new-urban-normal-urban-sustainability-and-resilience-post-covid-19

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Report: The New Urban Normal: Urban Sustainability and Resilience Post COVID-19

Published on: 15.01.2021

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MANIFESTO FOR THE JUST CITY

BOOK LAUNCH: Manifesto for the Just City

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