A5075967410- Night-time city culture
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Geological formations and processes
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
- New Zealand Economic and Social Studies
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- State Capitalism and Financial Governance
- Legal and Policy Issues
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Regional resilience and development
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Architecture, Modernity, and Design
University College London
2017-2024
City, University of London
2019
Durham University
2000
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...
There is growing interest in the ways that value understood context of projects and within project-based settings. Recent studies emphasise multiplicity project various settings as perceived by different actors. Drawing on previous work front-end, this study expands idea early definition phase. To end, draws from empirical data infrastructure provision, including semi-structured interviews with a set highly experienced senior level informants extensive knowledge familiarity planning...
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)...
Northumberland lies in the transition between Holocene emergence and submerg- ence is thus a critical zone for testing models of isostatic rebound. We have collected data from this area to reconstruct relative sea-level changes lateral coastline movements last 14000 y. These are deposits tidal marsh, back-barrier wetland terrestrial environ- ments producing 47 index points 12 sites. There no unequivocal evidence Late Devensian sea levels above present reliable restricted 26 m 12.5 9.0-2.5...
Expert technical knowledge has a central role in decision-making for urban transport and is subject to public scrutiny major investments. This paper examines how expertise produced contested by advocacy groups Auckland, New Zealand. A network of advocates emerged, garnering considerable influence as "experts" on planning. In response the perceived over-reliance outdated approaches transport, mobilised alternative using blogs social media. Internet platforms enabled extend sphere online,...
Infrastructure has grown rapidly as an alternative asset class, yet many of the complex processes that transform public infrastructures into lucrative financial assets are poorly understood. This article examines investments by infrastructure debt fund, to show how innovations expand and diversify class finding new ways generate returns from infrastructures. is emerging sector where private funds create extending loans or bond financing physical The analysis uses assetization a conceptual...
Literature on the financialisation of infrastructure gives limited attention to public banks. Since banks are key state institutions enable and shape financialisation, more research is needed show how they mediate processes amidst evolving social, political economic pressures. To address gap in existing literature, this article develops a case study UK Infrastructure Bank examine bank enables whilst maintaining credibility with United Kingdom's neoliberal-nationalist regime. The findings...
Infrastructure systems are critical to support sustainable and equitable urbanisation, infrastructure is becoming more prominent within urban spatial strategies. However, the fragmented governance delivery of plans projects create a challenging environment embed planning goals across planning, operation systems. There significant uncertainty around future needs complex ways that infrastructures influence socio-spatial relations political-economic processes. Additionally, knowledge different...
Access to finance is a central dimension of global responses climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals, for local national governments looking scale up infrastructure investment improve quality life, economic development resilience. However, there persistent misalignment between major sources finance—namely pension funds, sovereign wealth insurance companies, family offices or foundations—and opportunities invest in public assets. The financial crisis 2008–2009 exposed critical...