After a brief hiatus, Professor Yvonne Rydin is back with our first episode in 2021. Yvonne interviews another of our research students, Jingyi Zhu, about her research. Read about Jingyi's work on her thesis 'Exploring the role of public space in Shanghai’s urban transformation: Visionary narratives and everydayness in the quest for global excellence' on her profile page on our website:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/jingyi-zhu

Jingyi Zhu: Public Space in a Chinese City; the case of Shanghai

This month Yvonne speaks to Prof John Tomaney, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at BSP, and Ross Forbes, Programme Director of the Durham Miner's Association. Up for discussion are left behind places, cultural heritage and deep place research methodologies as well as a couple of specific places and their links.

You can read the UCL report 'Sacriston: towards a deeper understanding of place' via the BSP website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/about-us/bartlett-planning-podcast

The Redhills site mentioned in the podcast is here: https://redhillsdurham.org

John Tomaney and Ross Forbes: Researching cultural heritage and place in Durham

In the second of our series of three looking at disability, ableism and inclusion we focus on inclusive design.

Yvonne speaks with Julie Plichon from the Planning Policy team within the London Borough of Islington, Matthew Carmona (Professor of Planning and Urban Design at BSP) and Pablo Sendra (Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Design at BSP).

LB Islington's Inclusive Design pages including their supplementary planning document:
https://www.islington.gov.uk/planning/planning-policy/supplementary-planning-documents/inclusivedesign

Disability and Urban Design

In our final episode of our three part series looking at issues of disability, able-ism and inclusion, we broaden the discussion by interrogating the word 'inclusion'. 

How is inclusion defined? How inclusive is planning? What challenges does the history of inclusion in planning pose for teaching? Dr Michael Short and Dr Yasminah Beebeejaun offer their ideas.

See The Bartlett's 'Race and Space' document: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/race_and_space_pdf_final.pdf

Inclusive Planning

This term we are showcasing three of our post-doctoral fellows within the school of planning.

For the second epsiode of this series, Yvonne is joined by Dr. Yuerong Zhang, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the BSP.

Yuerong discusses her research and recent publication in which she and her co-authors explore the temporal aspects that can prevent older Londoners from accessing healthcare.

Go to our website to see Yuerong's profile and read the publication 'Exploring the temporal variations in accessibility to health services for older adults: A case study in Greater London': https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/about-us/bartlett-planning-podcast

Yuerong Zhang: Health Services and Accessibility for the Elderly

In the third and final episode of our research fellow mini series, Yvonne interviews Dr Alice Earley about her research into urban regeneration, gentrification and community enterprises. 

What are the nuances of, and interrelations between, regeneration and gentrification? How can regeneration happen without gentrification? What are community enterprises and why are their roles in this important?

Read more about Alice here:https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=EARLE06

Alice Earley: Community enterprise, community assets and regeneration

This month, Yvonne speaks with Weikai Wang, one of our Post-doctoral Fellows, funded by a European research council grant held by Professor Fulong Wu. Weikai explains his research into how China can tackle the urgent environmental, social and political problem of air pollution.

Weikai's profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=WWANH06
China Urban website: https://chinaurban.org/

Weikai Wang: Tackling Air Pollution in China

This month Yvonne speaks with Dr Ying Wang, another Post-doctoral Fellow funded by a European research council grant held by Professor Fulong Wu. 

Ying outlines her background before discussing her research into community participation and self-governance in Chinese neighbourhoods.

Ying Wang: Community participation and self-governance at the neighbourhood scale in China

This month Yvonne is joined by Elisabete Cidre, Professor of Urban Design and Historic Cities and Elena Besussi, Lecturer and Director of the BSc Urban Design & Management programme and BSc Urban Studies. 

Together, they discuss the challenges and joys of teaching planning.

What are the challenges and joys of teaching in Planning? Elisabete Cidre and Elena Besussi

Maria Lee is a Professor of Law in the School of Laws at UCL and coeditor of a new collection of papers, 'Taking English Planning Law Seriously', available on UCL Press.

Why do we need a book telling us to take planning law seriously? What do legal scholars have to offer and gain from exploring planning law? Yvonne and Maria discuss.

Find the book here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/192304

Professor Maria Lee: Taking Planning Law Scholarship Seriously

Yvonne talks to Professor Mike Raco, Chair of Urban Governance and Development and Dr Frances Brill, Honorary Lecturer, about their new book ‘London’. 

At the beginning of this episode Yvonne recommends the book to everyone who lives or works in London. It tells the story of how London came to be the city it is today and raises some important questions about planning and the wider governance.

The book is available on the Agenda Publishing website: https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/london/?k=9781788213059

Prof Mike Raco and Dr Frances Brill: How London came to be the city it is today

Yvonne interviews Dr. Heeseo Rain Kwon, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning.

Rain is currently implementing an urban growth model prototype as part of the “Future Urban Growth Lab” project led by Dr Tommaso Gabrieli.

Useful Links:

Rain's profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=HSKWO93

Mapping the Landscape of Behavioral Theories: Systematic Literature Review: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0885412219881135

Matching Behavioral Theories and Rules with Research Methods in Spatial Planning-Related Fields
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08854122231157708

Modelling Behaviour for Spatial Planning with Dr. Heeseo Rain Kwon

Yvonne interviews Dr Gareth Fearn, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, about his paper ‘From post-political to authoritarian planning in England, a crisis of legitimacy’ which he co-authored with with Simin Davoudi (Newcastle University). 

Drawing on research into the case of shale gas fracking, the paper examines a shift in planning practice towards a more top-down, antagonistic system which limits political dissent and public participation – as a precursor to the government’s more recent attempts at planning reform.

Link to paper: https://rgsibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12501

From post-political to authoritarian planning in England with Dr Gareth Fearn

We are delighted to kick off the 2023-24 series with an illuminating discussion about codesign infrastructure with our own Dr Tse-Hui Teh, lecturer in urban design and planning. Tse-Hui speaks about her new book ‘Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities’, which she coauthored with Sarah Bell, Charlotte Johnson, Kat Austen, and Gemma Moore. 

Codesign is a collaborative approach that involves diverse stakeholders in shaping transformative changes. It goes beyond traditional design roles, including people and entities often left out, to create more inclusive and effective solutions. 

Tse-Hui and Yvonne explore why this is such a challenging process, using the estate of Kipling Garden in Southwark as a case study.

Links 

Hui's profile: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/dr-tse-hui-teh  

Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities on UCL Press: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/186914#:~:text=Sarah%20Bell%2C%20Charlotte%20Johnson%2C%20Kat,Moore%2C%20and%20Tse%2DHui%20Teh&text=Co%2Ddesigning%20Infrastructures%20tells%20the,up%20solutions%20to%20global%20crises.

Codesigning Infrastructures with Tse-Hui Teh. Can community collaboration create liveable cities?

In the second episode of the 2023-24 series, Yvonne speaks with Lauren Andres, Professor of Planning and Urban transformations at The Bartlett School of Planning. 

Lauren is the Global and UK lead for the PANEX-Youth project which aims to understand how young people, particularly those living in monetary poor households, have adapted during the pandemic and assess the wider impact of such processes of adaptations in South Africa, Brazil and the UK (England).

To do so, the team uses a nexus approach, focusing on food, education, and play/leisure, embedded within a wider understanding of the living settings (local places) and home/personal contexts (household composition and home/personal life). The findings of the research aim to support global recovery and renewal, and to enhance the resilience of society in a post-pandemic world.


Links 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/news/2023/jun/how-have-young-people-adapted-during-pandemic-prof-lauren-andres-leads-research

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/people/lauren-andres

https://panexyouth.com/

Not at risk? Examining the impact of the pandemic on young people with Lauren Andres

Yvonne speaks to her co-authors, Dan Durrant, Lecturer in Infrastructure Planning at BSP and Christian Lamker, Assistant Professor Sustainable Transformation and Regional Planning at the University of Groningen, about their recent commentary piece, ‘The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth’. 

The piece explores how planning tools can adapt for a post-growth future, focusing on housing and infrastructure examples. Discover how planners can address urgent needs beyond the growth paradigm. 

Links 

Read the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2023.2198876  

Dan Durrant's profile: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/people/dr-dan-durrant 

Yvonne Rydin's profile: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/prof-yvonne-rydin 

Christian Lamker's profile: https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.w.lamker/?lang=en

The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth

Links 

Explore the profound effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on work, travel, living and leisure patterns in our latest episode. With a European lens, we delve into how remote work and tourism shifts have boosted the desire for short-term rentals and second homes in picturesque rural, coastal, and urban areas. Claire outlines the pandemic's acceleration of existing counter-urbanisation trends, impacting housing availability and costs across Europe, drawing on work published with BSP colleague Nick Gallent. Join us as we navigate the policy complexities of regulating privately-owned housing and suggest exciting directions for future research. 

Post-COVID-19 mobilities and the housing crisis in European urban and rural destinations. Policy challenges and research agenda by Claire Colomb and Nick Gallent: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02697459.2022.2119512  

Claire's profile: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/people/professor-claire-colomb

Post covid-19 mobilities and the housing crisis in Europe with Prof Claire Colomb

Professor Michael Hebbert discusses the role of figure-grounds, highly simplified images of the built environment based on ground plans.

Read Professor Hebbert's full article, 'Figure-ground: history and practice of a planning technique' in the Town Planning Review here: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1533039/

Michael Hebbert: What are figure-grounds and how can they help planners?

Dr Jo Williams, Director of the UCL Circular Cities Hub discusses her work on relating ideas on the circular economy to urban planning.

Read Jo's paper 'Circular Cities' here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0042098018806133

Circular Cities Hub: https://circularcities.wordpress.com/

Jo Williams: Circular Cities

Dr Pablo Sendra discusses his research on community activism against the demolition of social housing estates and the relocation of residents.

Pablo Sendra: Community-led social housing regeneration

Episode 4 of our COVID-19 focused mini-series.

In this mini-series, Yvonne Rydin talks to colleagues and discusses the implications of the current COVID-19 crisis.

In the final episode Dr Michael Short, Senior Teaching Fellow in Planning, discusses how the crisis may or may not alter our views on density in cities. Will the fact that we are staying at home change how we feel about public and private spaces in the future? What will the impact on urban planning be?

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