DPU Consultants

The DPU associates are a group of consultants who have all been members of the academic staff of the Development Planning Unit at University College London. They do research and training in the specialist field of urban planning for development.
In 2006 their coordinator approached us with a request to build a site which could be used as a simple store-front to raise their professional profiles and publicise their areas of expertise.
DPU supplied the page design and we set up a simple site structure which could easily handle a growing list of consultants. The site is now completely managed by DPU themselves.

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DPU Associates

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