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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...

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...

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...

'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"...

A Taste of Hackney

'Recipes for success or failure: vegan chicken shops, designer bags and Tesco towers.' By Oveis Rezazadeh and Kameliya Staneva Written...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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...