Sonia Roitman was invited to give a lecture for Urban Planning students from the International Master Program on Urban Planning and the International Bachelor in Urban Planning at Universitas Gadjah Mada, in Indonesia. The lecture was well attended, by 40 participants in person and 60 participants via Zoom. It was a great start of the … Continue reading
The African Urbanisms Conference is starting today in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference is jointly organised by the University of the Witwatersrand (known as ‘Wits’) and the Technical University Berlin (TUB). The conference theme is ‘Critical Engagements, Transformative Practices, Alternative Futures’. Delegates from all over Africa and other countries outside Africa will be presenting and … Continue reading
Sonia Roitman was invited to give a guest lecture to the students from the Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The lecture was on the impacts of floods for the local communities in three countries of the Global South: Samoa, Uganda and Indonesia. The objective of the … Continue reading
New publication alert: UQ|UP’s Sonia Roitman and Peter Walters write on urban informality in the Global South. This chapter provides an in-depth conceptual discussion on urban informality as a logic of organisation in the Global South that requires overcoming binary conceptual approaches, interwoven with research findings on informality in cities located in the Global South. … Continue reading
UQ|UP Sonia Roitman has been discussing with colleagues from urban studies, sociology, architecture and planning at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ) the urban growth of Querétaro in Mexico. This city is located in the centre of the country and is experiencing one of the fastest rates of urban expansion in Mexico. The city gets … Continue reading
Join us for an online public lecture on Friday organised by Rusli Cahyadi from BRIN Indonesia (UQ Graduate). Three researchers will be presenting their work on informal settlements in Pontianak (Yustina Octifanny), Islamic values and urban planning in Banda Aceh (Sylvia Agustina), and the use of public space in kampung in Semarang (Wakhidah Kurniawati). The work is … Continue reading
Urban mobility must tackle an over-reliance on automobiles, which has led to both sprawl and inequity of access to amenities and opportunities, if it is to re-invent itself. Citizens, particularly in the Global South, are already spending on informal, often unregulated private transport. To learn about this and more, listen to: The Oblique Life Global … Continue reading
Today we heard the sad news of Prof Vanessa Watson’s passing. Vanessa was one of the most influential scholars on urban planning in the Global South. Based at the African Centre for Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town, she has been an inspiration for many of us at UQ|UP over the years. In 2013, the … Continue reading
Congratulations to Gillian Cornish who has recently completed her PhD in Planning at UQ. The title of her thesis is ‘Settling into a New Place: Livelihood recovery and belongingness of households forced to relocate in Yangon, Myanmar‘. This thesis examines the recovery process of people who were forced to relocate from central Yangon, Myanmar, to the city’s outskirts … Continue reading
Foods and beverages packaged in plastic are manufactured in developed economies or regional manufacturing hubs and sold globally, including into small island developing states. Research has shown that for SIDS, an increasing dependence on these imported products has resulted in changing food cultures. Increased packaged F&B consumption also contributes to environmental and other human health … Continue reading