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.
HIC President Blog
Capsules to understand the rent crisis
II Encuentro Nacional de Alquileres is a multi-sectoral space to provide information and proposals that contribute to the public debate in the context of the elections at different levels of [...]
From Local Action to Global Impact: Accelerating SDG11 across HIC’s pillars
Our President Adriana Allen coordinated the production of five position papers on the Localisation of SDG 11, launched by the Global Task Force of Local and Regional Government and UCLG [...]
The HIC journey 2022
Dear HIC community, friends, and allies, This year we have celebrated our return to face-to-face interactions since the beginning of the pandemic. It has been a pleasure and an honour [...]
The UCLG GOLD report on global urban equality calls for transformative action and real change
This blog post by Alexandre Apsan Frediani HIC Board Representative in Europe and reseracher in IIED and Camila Cociña (researcher in IIED’s Human Settlements research group) has been originally published [...]