PUBLICATIONS
ETHOS
Architecture, Urban Design and Planning are highly skilled fields. Far too often, decisions remain in the hands of a few but have an impact on the lives of many. Informing the public about the barriers and conflicts within the various fields of the industry is a good start whilst we prepare for a more participatory and inclusive planning system. Informed people can make informed decisions.
I have published many articles in professional journals, public interest websites and national newspapers.
PUBLICATIONS
Apr 18, 2024 - The Glass-House Community Led Design: People, Planet, Place
Winter, 2024 - Urban Design Journal, Issue 169 (p.34-38): Nottingham: Achieving Design Quality on the Ground
Apr 18, 2023 - A Beginners’ Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, sustainable design - Routledge
2022 - Social Value in Practice: CH:13 - Delivering social value of place through planning - (Ed. Raiden et.al.) ISBN 9780367457150
Oct 21, 2021 - Engineering Sustainability (ICE Richard Trevithick Award): Co-creating social value in placemaking: the grand balancing act - ISSN 1478-4629 | E-ISSN 1751-7680
Oct 2021 - UDG Journal, Issue 160 (p.16-17): The ABC of Quality, sustainable design: Accountability, Balance, Collaboration
Mar 2021 - IHBC Context: Understanding Context
Mar 2021 -IHBC Context Vox Pop: Laura Alvarez
Dec 5, 2020 - The Daily Telegraph Supplement: Six steps to meaningful housing reform
Jun 23, 2020 - The Daily Telegraph: Our housing crisis needs a national crusade
Oct 21, 2019 - Planning Jobs: Applying the new national design guide
Oct 16, 2019 - Planning Jobs: Understanding the value of heritage in defining the identity of place
Sep 9, 2019 - Planning Jobs: The art of clearly communicating planning terminology
Jul, 2019 - UDG Journal Issue 151: Nottingham’s politicians champion design quality
Apr, 2019 - UDG Journal, Issue 150: Understanding Local Distinctiveness
2019 -Community Organisers Journal: Engagement & Local Policy
Dec, 2019 - UDG Journal: Nottingham’s Urban Room: The Legacy of the Urban Design Conference 2014
Feb 18 - 2018 - The Independent: How to make healthy buildings in an era of mass migration
Jun 15, 2017 - The Conversation: Grenfell fire aftermath: how 20th-century buildings can be made safer, not more dangerous
Apr 4, 2017 - The Conversation: A place to live, work and play: why mixed-use developments are making a comeback
2017 - RIBA: The Design Companion - Advisor
Oct 31, 2016 - The Conversation: Seven simple ways to create healthy, happy neighbourhoods
Jul 15, 2016 - The Conversation: If nature is so good for us, why aren’t all public green spaces accessible?
Jun 2016 - Sustainable Cities and Society: The role of social network analysis on participation and placemaking
May 25, 2016 - The Conversation: You don’t have to build up or move out to tackle urban density
Mar 26, 2016 - The Sunday Times: Interview by Alison Coleman: Rebuilding UK's run-down urban spaces.
2016 - Nottingham Post: Hollygirt pupils celebrate opening of 'living playground' - By Tom Norton
2016 - BBC News (online) - Quoted by Jennifer Harby in her article: Industrial England: Pictures of our past and present
2016 - UDG Journal, Issue 137: The Laws of the Indies: 17th Century urban design guidelines for colonial Latin America
2009 - UDG Journal, Issue 139 Co-Editor: Latin America
2016 - UDG Journal, Issue 139: The Place Alliance Big Midlands Meet
Dec 14, 2015 - The Conversation: Here’s how we can learn to fall in love with shocking buildings
Jun 2015 - Conference Paper: A Bifocal-Ecological Approach for Enhancing Social Resilience in Neighbourhoods
Apr 2015 - Conference Paper: The Social Value of Place: An Appraisal Method for Sustainable Neighbourhood Development
Oct 2014 - Conference paper: A Bifocal Approach for Framing Social Resilience
May 2014 - Conference paper: The Resilience Timeline: A Tool for Framing Community Resilience and its Application on Empirical
2012 - UDG Journal, Issue 123: Designing Place
2012 - UDG Journal, Issue 123: Sustainable Drainage Systems and Urban Design
2012 - UDG Journal, Issue 123: The Urban Design Interview: Laura Alvarez
2010 -UDG Journal, Issue 115: Public Art in the East Midlands
2009 - UDG Journal, Issue 110: Is Urban Renaissance Failing Humanism?