Mr Michael Edwards

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Profile

Biography

Education: PPE (mostly economics and statistics) in Oxford 1961-4 and then Town Planning at UCL 1964-6.  Employed in Nathaniel Lichfield and Associates and in that capacity worked on the Milton Keynes Master Plan, other new settlements, retail schemes and cost benefit analysis. Joined the UCL staff in 1969.

Full publications list and blog at  http://michaeledwards.org.uk

Founder member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA) and of the Planners Network UK (PNUK)

Research Summary

Works on relationship between property markets and planning, mainly in UK and Europe. Active on London planning, most recently supporting community groups in challenges to the 2009 and Draft Replacement London Plan (supported by UCL Public Engagement Unit)
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Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship focuses on the land and housing crisis in the UK, working with Bob Colenutt (University of Northampton)
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Research outputs

Towards a joined-up London 2000 -
Sacred Cow or Sacrificial Lamb? Will London's Green Belt have to go? 2000 -
Property markets and the production of inequality 2000 Edwards M
King's Cross Partnership: Evaluation of baseline data 2000 Edwards M,Mutale E
Planificazione e comunicazione a Londra 2000 Edwards M
Biss: retrospect and prospect 1999 Edwards M
London's spatial economy: the dynamics of change 1999 Hall P,Edwards M,Robson D
Confirming conforming conventions 1997 -
Editors Introduction in Proceedings of the Biss - International Summer School on the Production of the Built Environment 1997 Edwards M
Impact and cost benefit analysis 1997 Edwards M
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Research activities

Community Participation in city-wide planning: Comparing London and Johannesburg