DPU, University College London

Investigations of formal and informal systems of communication flows and negotiation channels that support development in urban communities and improved governance, and of the role effective communication in making urban partnerships work.

Contact Details
Babar Mumtaz
Email: b.mumtaz@ucl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1111
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 1112

Adriana Allen
a.allen@ucl.ac.uk
urban and regional political ecology studies; urban and peri-urban environmental planning and management

Dr Robert Biel
r.biel@ucl.ac.uk
how communities adapt to globalisation; development at the level of the international system itself; commons regimes in urban agriculture

Dr Julio Dávila
j.davila@ucl.ac.uk
service provision governance in the peri-urban interface; metropolitan governance, subsidies and basic services; the dispersal of manufacturing in metropolitan regions

Caren Levy
c.levy@ucl.ac.uk
urban planning methodology; gender policy and planning; training and organisational development.

Michael Mattingly
m.mattingly@ucl.ac.uk
the role of peri-urban interface land in the livelihoods of poor people; neo-customary land delivery systems; capacity building in local government

Dr Sheilah Meikle
s.meikle@ucl.ac.uk
impact of economic growth on poor people; impact of energy use on the livelihoods of poor people; energy use by poor people

Babar Mumtaz
b.mumtaz@ucl.ac.uk
housing finance; urban management

Michael Safier
m.safier@ucl.ac.uk
urbanisation and regional development; the cosmopolitan culture of cities

Prof Patrick Wakely
change p.wakely@ucl.ac.uk
interaction among low income communities and local government; the role in development and governance of information management and communication; the management of institutional

Dr Le-Yin Zhang
le-yin.zhang@ucl.ac.uk
China’s financial reform and the reform of its state-owned enterprises; privatisation experience in transitional economies