Maintaining safety, managing data and promoting SHLC during Urban October
Welcome to the September edition of the SHLC Bulletin!
Whilst COVID-19 conditions and restrictions are different in every city it is vital that we ensure all researchers and project staff remain safe. Safety and security of fieldworkers and participants should always be our first priority. With this in mind, fieldwork for the household survey pilot must not commence until additional research ethics requirements regarding COVID-19 risks are completed, and it is safe for fieldworkers to enter the field. If you any questions, please contact Keith Kintrea.
Thank you to Alasdair Stewart for preparing the data management guide for the household survey. It is important that this document supports each in-country context, so please read through the documents and send any comments and feedback to Alasdair.
Congratulations to Debolina Kundu on editing the book Developing National Urban Policies, and special mention to David Everatt and Mario Delos Reyes and their teams for contributing chapters.
Urban October, starting tomorrow, is the UN-Habitat's annual celebration of urban sustainability, and it is an excellent opportunity to raise our profile to a captive audience interested in learning more about sustainable urbanisation. As you know, we would like to use Urban October as a moment to publish the RTP-2 research, so please respond quickly to the copy editors comments so production can progress in time to publish in the coming weeks. Alongside our RTP-2 research summaries, we are excited to be hosting a Virtual Panel Event chaired by UN-Habitat exploring the theme 'Housing for All' and a suite of blogs. Please follow along and share our outputs across your networks. And of course, if you have any outputs and activities you would like to share, please do let us know.
As always, if you have any news or have read a research article you would like to share with the rest of the team, remember to send updates to our project team to be included in the next SHLC Bulletin: [email protected].
Take care and, as always, stay safe!
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Cities at the Epicentre of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Density Matters
In this article for HSRC’s ‘Review’, Ivan Turok says urban density is an important consideration in the coronavirus pandemic, but knee-jerk reactions by the government, companies and citizensare damaging.
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New Book: Developing National Urban Policies
This book, edited by Debolina Kundu with contributing chapters from SHLC researchers in India, South Africa and the Philippines, analyses past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe. |
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Why Democracy Matters for Development in Africa
In this blog, Graeme Young says “the idea that political and economic inclusion go hand in hand is under considerable strain” and calls for continued emphasis and defence of democracy for development. |
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Register for Virtual Panel Event: Housing for All During COVID-19 and Beyond
How can housing policy help to deliver more sustainable and inclusive urban development? Register for the Urban October virtual panel event and hear contributions from SHLC’s very own Josephine Malonza alongside other international researchers and policy makers. |
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10 Major Changes in the New Kigali Master Plan
As it seeks to accommodate its rising population, the city of Kigali recently launched a new city master plan to be implemented from 2020 up to 2050. What are the biggest changes?
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Help us Promote SHLC During #UrbanOctober
UN-Habitat’s month long Urban October celebrations provides an excellent opportunity to tell the world why sustainable neighbourhoods matters. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and please comment and share with your wider networks.
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"The housing pressures in Cape Town are so great that people have resorted to invading undeveloped private and public land because there is not enough space in existing informal settlements and backyard dwellings. These spontaneous land grabs are happening far from transport connections and in areas completely lacking in public services. It is a highly unsatisfactory way of building a city, but people are desperate and the authorities are generally powerless to prevent such invasions."
Credit: Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council
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Do you have a photo from your research you'd like to share? Email your photo and description to [email protected] to be featured in the next bulletin.
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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.
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