REP Research Roundup: December 2023
News from the Department of Real Estate & Planning
Research Engagement
With housing growth and a new generation of New Towns high on the national agenda, Emma Street and Victor Nicholls, were invited to take part in a conference in East Kilbride organised by the New Towns All Party Parliamentary Group on 17 November 2023. Emma and Victor spoke about the lessons learned from their extensive research into Bracknell town centre’s regeneration, with a particular focus on strategic and operational themes ranging from political and corporate management, partnerships, and more practical matters such as public realm design and animating town centre spaces.
More informaiton and links to their reports
Research Awards
Mark Dobson - Royal Town Planning Institute
Title: Timescales in planning (South-East and RTPI research fund)
Total bid: £10,000
Research Applications
Kathy Pain - Principal Investigator; Submitted to the Economic and Social Research Councils
Title: Soft, Smart Thinking Space: Value-Creating Network for Territorial Cohesion and Levelling Up
Total bid: £405,046.31
Richard Nunes - Co-investigator; Submitted to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Title: PLANET-NZ: Planning Land Use for Appropriate and Nationally Viable Establishment of Net Zero
Total bid: £3,390,063
Publications
Dobson, Mark and Parker, Gavin (2023) 'Do the right thing': Planning at the intersection of the 'culture wars' Town and Country Planning, 92 (6), pp. 381-386
Abstract
Long-standing tenets of good planning, such as public health, accessibility and sustainability, are moving into the crosshairs of the culture wars as the values underpinning planning and development choices are being increasingly contested using populist tropes. The paper discusses the implications for the practice and implementation of planning.
PhD News
Thesis Deposit
Oladiran, Olayiwola Oladipo (2020) Essays on migration and housing. PhD thesis, University of Reading.
DOI 10.48683/1926.00114245
Conference Presentation
Wylie, Adele (2023) Ecofeminist kitchens: reimagining professional kitchens as spaces of sustainable foodwork, Stockholm Gastronomy Conference, Stockholm University, 23, November.