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
Housing Crisis and Housing Cooperatives: Alternatives for Fairer Cities
Members of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC), together with HIC Vice President Guillermo Marzioni, took part in the event “Housing Crisis and Housing Cooperatives: An Alternative for the Construction of [...]
Adriana Allen Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the National University of Mar del Plata
We are proud to share that Adriana Allen, former President of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and a long-standing member of our global community, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate [...]
HIC’s Institutional Visit to Mexico: Alliances, Social Production of Habitat and Defence of the Right to the City
Guillermo Javier Marzioni – Vice-President of HIC 4 to 15 September 2025 Full report here From 4 to 15 September, HIC Vice-President Guillermo Javier Marzioni made an institutional visit to [...]
HIC Presidency’s Message for International Women’s Day: Centering Care and Feminism in the Struggle for human rights related to habitat
International Women’s Day & Women’s Month: Centering Care and Feminism This International Women’s Day & Women’s Month, we reaffirm that in the face of rising authoritarianism, conflict, and regressive policies [...]
Realising collective housing rights at scale at the International Conference in Bangkok
Reflection written by Adriana Allen, HIC Former President 2019-2023, on the 2024 Collective Housing International Conference that took place in Bangkok Because housing is not the end but rather the [...]
