Hic President Blog
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Fearless and Transformative Cities: Housing Stories from the Ground
The right to housing is under attack. Alarming levels of homelessness, forced evictions, unafford …
8 July, 2021
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Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat: Learning from HIC-AL School of grassroots urbanism
Authors Julia Wesely University College London, UK Corresponding author: julia.wesely@ucl.ac.uk A …
9 June, 2021
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FLACSO Roundtable: What styles of urban development could reduce the inequalities and socio-territorial vulnerabilities evidenced by the pandemic?
Intervention by Adriana Allen, President of HIC, at the FLACSO Roundtable: What styles of urban d …
3 June, 2021
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A conversation with HIC President on networked practices, knowledges and pedagogies for translocal housing activism
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13 December, 2020
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Video HIC President intervention during the collective conversation on Housing Rights: Looking back, looking forward
The right to adequate housing has become prominent in the human rights agenda, in the light of an …
3 November, 2020
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Adriana Allen on the need to listen to the communities and local and regional governments: Local and Regional Forum HLPF2020 -Subtítulos en Español
HIC President at the 3rd Local & Regional Government Forum #HLPF2020 speaks about all the eno …
14 July, 2020
About me
Adriana Allen
Adriana Allen is Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, where she leads the research cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanization and Resilience (EJUR). She is also the Bartlett's Vice-Dean International and is actively engaged in various initiatives promoting trans-local learning and enhanced advocacy and actionresearch capacity, both within UCL and internationally Originally trained as an urban planner in Argentina, she specialized over the years in the fields of housing, public health, urban environmental governance and political ecology. Adriana has over 30 years of international experience in research, postgraduate teaching, advisory and training services undertakings in over 25 countries across the Global South. Adriana Allen Bio