A5034208810- Night-time city culture
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Air Traffic Management and Optimization
- Architecture and Cultural Influences
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
University of Sheffield
2019-2025
University College London
2017-2023
City, University of London
2017-2019
London School of Economics and Political Science
2016
RAND Europe
2015
Mount Royal University
2012
UCLouvain
1997-2005
Federal Aviation Administration
1963
Abstract The growing interest in urban areas as sites for climate action has led to new ways of conceiving and planning the urban. As actions reshape existing understandings what cities are or ought be, they constitute modalities recent scholarship referred ‘climate urbanism’. This research framed urbanism a climate‐inflected iteration neoliberal development, geared towards mobilization ‘green’ private capital large‐scale infrastructural projects, focused on carbon metrics, conducive...
The notion of ‘liveability’ has endured for over 50 years within policy discourses, shaping urban strategy and planning across the world. This Debates paper examines current state liveability discourse. Liveability is unpacked to consider rhetorical work that it does frame problems, select order concepts build narratives shape action. discourse a dual role: defines normative goals city also reifies demands particular forms expert knowledge justify maintain its discursive power. power created...
As urban actors engage in climate action, their projects – from greening to changes energy systems reshape not just the built environment but also organization of social life. This new urbanism invites reimagine what it means be a climate-changed world. We propose articulation as critical theory that both exposes production further inequalities associated with responses change and provides radical forms practice for more progressive futures under change.
The crises that cities face-such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism-are tightly interlinked cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban a unique type of problem, which discrete solutions tackle each crisis independently are insufficient. Few scholarly debates address there is, to date, lack interdisciplinary insights inform governance responses. Combining ideas from complex adaptive systems critical studies, we develop set boundary concepts...
To date, critical work on real estate activities and the financialisation of urban development has focused mostly investor-developer-government interactions to highlight how investors' values, expectations objectives are enacted through regulatory fiscal reforms, which in turn affects cities built. However, less emphasis been put relationship between expertise, production particular forms. Yet, knowledge associated city visions by specific 'expert' professions have shown influence were...
Cities have gained prominence in global sustainability discourses. The United Nations '2030 Agenda' highlights at least four key agreements the need to engage local stakeholders as partners for implementation of policy objectives. As a result, rise 'cities agenda' has led not only an increased role cities politics but also reshaping knowledge-base underpinning international and their implementation. This paper argues that contemporary willingness move beyond "territorial trap" modern...
Abstract Background Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate access resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not reliable centralized networks both rural urban areas. Much research date on community has focused their deployment Europe North America. This paper advances these debates by looking at how can support transitions Africa. Specifically, it asks: what role play the transition East Southern Africa?...
The growing interest in urban night-time economies and transport policies presents an important context which to examine how mobility justice is conceived operationalised policy-making. Literature on exclusion documents the disadvantages experienced by different social groups advances theoretical frameworks for distributive accessibility. However, this literature has rarely considered politics of whether difference recognised planned policy, including issues deliberative (participation)...
There is increasing policy demand for real-time evaluations of research and capacity-building programmes reflecting a recognition the management, governance impact gains that can result. However, evidence base on how to successfully implement complex interventions in international development efforts scarce. therefore need reflective work considers methodologies context. This article shares learning from experience conducting participatory, real-time, ‘theory driven’ evaluation African...
Abstract Research on the geographies of finance for urban climate action has generated important insights into how agendas contribute to financialisation environments and strengthen position market actors in governance. However, by focusing a limited set financial instruments (e.g., green bonds, carbon credits), real estate developers, private investors, international organisations), projects large‐scale infrastructure), existing studies overlook heterogeneity relations, initiatives, that...
Recent work on financialization in urban political economy and economic geography has highlighted real estate developers as a point of analysis for understanding governance ongoing restructuring. This paper contributes to this literature by showing how an analytical entry focused risk mitigation can help better understand the position governance. In doing so, we call more geographically sensitive its influence developers' strategies specific places. Building two examples from Johannesburg...
Real-world data (RWD) is an umbrella term for different types of that are not collected in conventional randomised controlled trials. RWD the healthcare sector comes from various sources and includes patient data, clinicians, hospital payers social data. There already examples ways which research has contributed to provision, construction capture improve health outcomes. However, maximise potential these new pools sector, stakeholders need identify pathways processes will allow them...
This paper investigates urban governance empirically by applying social network analysis methods to data gathered through structured interviews in London and New York. We explore how decisions are made complex institutional environments inhabited various types of actors. Owing the time-consuming collection treatment processes, research zooms on transport. The comparative approach enabled detection different structural features networks shaping transport strategies both cities. perceived...
City-level data are needed to inform local strategies as well monitor progress towards the implementation of New Urban Agenda (NUA). Not only do cities need more data, they also information that is context sensitive and relevant policy needs. This paper reviews over 23 global urban initiatives, concluding landscape in its current form unable support monitoring NUA. Engaging a broader range stakeholders knowledge production necessary existing offer narrow understanding processes at play cities.
Abstract Our globalised and increasingly urban world demands an understanding of how ideas about to build cities travel become embedded in places. In this context, private actors operating across borders such as investors, real estate developers, international consultants, global construction companies engineering firms appear key agents change cities. However, developers’ interactions with local stakeholders their role territorialising financial strategies have been relatively...
Scholarly research has shown the importance of moments crisis, in particular direct aftermath urban crises, as opportunities to learn about vulnerabilities. However, if it is widely assumed that learning important, for resilience-building, we still know very little how such occurs a moment crisis. This paper starts addressing this gap, arguing crisis constitute specific type 'learning space'. proposition taken forward through analysis large-scale (social and humanitarian) city Cape Town. The...
Cities are more and embedded in information flows, their policies increasingly called assessment frameworks to understand the impact of systems knowledge underpinning local government. Encouraging a systemic view on data politics urban age, this paper investigates ecosystem which governments embedded. Seeking go beyond 'smart city' paradigm into overt discussion structures information-driven governance, it offers preliminary across ten case studies (Barcelona, Bogotá, Chicago, London,...
We are an international collective of Early Career Academics (ECAs) who met throughout 2020 to explore the implications COVID-19 on precarious academics. With this intervention, our aims voice commonly shared experiences and concerns reflect extent which pandemic offers opportunities redefine Higher Education research institutions, in a context ongoing precarity funding cuts. Specifically, we avenues build solidarity across institutions geographies, ensure that conduct urban research,...