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Prof John Tomaney
Professor of urban and Regional Planning
The Bartlett School of Planning
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2012
Research summary
John’s research has been principally concerned with
development of cities and regions as socioeconomic, political and cultural
phenomena and the role of public policy in the management of these. This work
has focused especially on questions of the governance of local and regional
economies, including questions of spatial planning. John’s work
contributes to debates about the relational and territorial conceptions of
place and space, which remain central to debates in planning, geography and the
social sciences more generally. An additional theme of work concerns the imaginative
representation of cities and regions in literature and art. John’s work is frequently
aimed at live policy debates and he has undertaken research for international
organisations and national, regional and local governments, NGOs and private
organisations. He has worked in several countries but has a particular interest
in urban and regional planning in the EU, UK and Australia.
Teaching summary
ENVS3043:
Regional Development, Planning and Policy in a Global Context
BENVGPL5:
Spatial Planning: Concepts and Contexts
BENVGPL4:
Pillars of Planning (Urban Economics)
BENVGTC1:
Planning Practice
Education
- Newcastle University
- PhD, Urban and Regional Studies | 1991
- University of Sussex
- MA, Urban and Regional Studies | 1987
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- BSocSci, Social Administration | 1985
Biography
Prof. John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Previously he was Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University. He has held visiting appointments in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne; Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney; CURDS, Newcastle University; Gran Sasso Science Institute; Manchester Business School and University College Dublin and is an Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (UK) and the Regional Australia Institute. He was educated at the London School of Economics, University of Sussex and University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He has published over 100 books and articles on questions of local and
regional development including Local and
Regional Development (2nd Edition, Routledge, 2017) and Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Routledge 2011) co-authored
with Andy Pike and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. He has undertaken numerous research
projects in the UK and elsewhere. Among the organisations for which he has
conducted research are: UK Research Councils, government departments in the UK
and elsewhere, the European Commission, the OECD and local and regional
development agencies and private sector and voluntary organisations and think
tanks in the UK and abroad. He has given evidence to Royal Commissions and
Parliamentary Committees in the