REP Research Roundup: November 2023
News from the Department of Real Estate & Planning
Research Engagement
Dr Emma Street and Victor Nicholls were part of a panel at the ‘New Towns’ All-Party-Parliamentary Group conference where they presented their work on Bracknell’s regeneration which has been an ongoing project since 2015. This was reported in Your Harlow.
Publications
Dobson, Mark and Parker, Gavin (2024) Slow planning? Timescapes, power and democracy Policy Press, Bristol, pp176.
ISBN 9781447367703 (In Press)
Description
A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practitioners, national and local politicians and policymakers involved in planning, academics and students studying planning and related disciplines.
It presents time as a pervasive form of power that is used to shape democratic practices, and questions ‘project speed’: where time to think, deliberate and plan has been squeezed. The authors demonstrate the many benefits of slow planning for the key participants, multiple interests and planning system overall.
PhD News
PhD Vivas
Thesis examined: Martha Cross – “Unlocking imagination through maps: exploring the spatial imaginaries of food systems transitions. A case study of the UK food partnership movement”
Supervisors: Richard Nunes (Real Estate and Planning and Mike Goodman (Geography and Environmental Science)