CityForm Network

Bramley, G. and Power, S. (2008)
Urban Form and Social Sustainability: the role of density and housing type, Environment and Planning B, doi:10.1068/b33129

Dempsey, N. (2008)
Quality of the built environment in urban neighbourhoods, Planning Practice and Research, 23(2): 247-262.

Dempsey, N. (2008)
Does quality of the built environment affect social cohesion?, Urban Design and Planning, 161(3): 105-114.

Dempsey, N. (2008)
The future city: is high-density the sustainable answer?, Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture, 16: 30-35.

Bramley, G., Dempsey, N., Power, S., Brown, C. and Watkins, D. (2008)
Social sustainability and urban form: evidence from five British cities, Environment and Planning A (in press).

Jenks, M. and Dempsey, N. (2007)
Defining the Neighbourhood: challenges for empirical research, Town Planning Review, 78(2):153-177.

Bramley, G., Brown, C., Dempsey, N. and Power, S. (2007)
Urban Form and Social Sustainability: planning for happy, cohesive and 'vital' communities? The Vital City' European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10th Anniversary Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 12-14 September 2007.

Dempsey, N. (2007)
Are high quality neighbourhoods socially sustainable? Methodological challenges of unpacking multidimensional concepts, The Vital City' European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10th Anniversary Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 12-14 September 2007.

Jenks, M. (2005)
Presentation and evidence given to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) for their study on the Urban Environment, Carlton Terrace, London, June 2005.

Bramley, G. and Power, S. (2005)
‘Urban Form and Social Sustainability: the role of density and housing type’, European Network for Housing Research, Reykjavic, Iceland, June 2005.

Bramley, G., Power, S. and Dempsey, N. (2006)
‘What Is ‘Social Sustainability’, And How Do Our Existing Urban Forms Perform In Nurturing It?’, Global Places, Local Spaces, Planning Research Conference, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London 5th April to 7th April 2006.

Dempsey, N., Jenks, M. and Bramley, G. (2006)
Defining the neighbourhood: empirical challenges, Global Places, Local Spaces, Planning Research Conference, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London 5th April to 7th April 2006.

Bramley, G., Brown, C., Power, S. and Dempsey, N. (2006)
‘Urban Form and Social Sustainability: cross-disciplinary contributions to concepts & measurement of relationship', Royal Geographical Society conference, London, August 2006.

Dempsey, N., Brown, C. and Bramley, G. (2007)
‘Focussing on social sustainability: what residents tell us about urban form', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Bramley, G., Brown, C., Power, S. and Dempsey, N. (2007)
‘Urban Form and Social Sustainability: calibrating the relationship for existing urban areas', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Bramley, G., Brown, C., Power, S. and Dempsey, N. (2007)
‘Urban form, social sustainability and neighbourhood housing markets', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Dempsey, N. (2007)
‘Do quality places put smiles on faces? Assessing the relationship between the quality of the built environment and social cohesion', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Jenks, M.
'The Sustainable City - Myth or Reality?', Oxford Civic Society, St Anne's College, Oxford, 8th February 2006

Bramley, G., Brown, C., Dempsey, N. and Watkins, D. (2007)
'Planning for Happiness: Evidence on the Social Dimension of Urban Sustainability', RIBA Futures Fair, London, 2nd May 2007.

Bramley, G., Brown, C., Dempsey, N. and Power, S. (2007)
Urban Form and Social Sustainability: planning for happy, cohesive and 'vital' communities?, European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10th Anniversary Conference: The Vital City, University of Glasgow, 12th-14th September, 2007.

Dempsey, N (2007)
Are high quality neighbourhoods socially sustainable? Methodological challenges of unpacking multidimensional concepts, European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10th Anniversary Conference: The Vital City, University of Glasgow, 12th-14th September, 2007.

McKenzie, C. (2006)
One Great Planet, One Great Fight to win the UK title in Socially Sustainable Urban Form, poster presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAA) Science Festival, Norwich, 4th-8th September.

Retailing and the City: an investigation into the relationships between urban form and retailing in Edinburgh
Allison Orr, Charlotte MacDonald, Chris Leishman, and Colin Jones

Jones, C. and MacDonald, C. (2004)
‘Sustainable Urban Form and Real Estate Markets', Annual European Real Estate Society Conference, Milan, Italy 2004.

Jones, C., Leishman, C. and MacDonald, C. (2005)
‘Urban Form and Local Housing Markets', Annual European Real Estate Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2005.

Jones, C., Leishman, C., MacDonald, C. and Orr, A. (2007)
‘Sustainable Urban Form, Real Estate Markets and Public Policy', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Jones, C. , Leishman, C. and MacDonald, C.
Sustainable Urban Form and Residential Development Viability' to be presented at the Housing Studies Association Conference, York, April 2007.

Orr, A. M., MacDonald, C., Leishman, L. and Jones, C. (2007)
'Retailing and the City: an investigation into the relationships between urban form and retailing in Edinburgh', European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10th Anniversary Conference: The Vital City, University of Glasgow, 12th-14th September, 2007.

Ferguson, N.S., Carreno, M. and Stradling, S. (2005)
‘Travel Choices in Scotland – the effect of local accessibility on non-work travel', European Transport Conference, Strasbourg. 3rd – 5th October 2005.

Woods, L. and Ferguson, N.S. (2006a)
'A multilevel analysis of travel behaviour and accessibility', 38th Annual UTSG Conference, Dublin. 4 – 6th January 2006.

Woods, L. and Ferguson, N.S. (2006b)
‘How ‘life history' influences current household travel behaviour', Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Paris. 28th Sept – 1st October 2006.

Woods, L., Ferguson, N.S. and Wall, R. (2007)
‘The Influence of Residential Built Form on Household Travel Behaviour: an analysis using retrospective panel data', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Ferguson, N.S. and Woods, L. (2007)
‘Investigating the relationship between residential location and activity participation', to be presented at the Thinking Spaces for Making Places: Planning Research Conference 2007, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 10th April to 12th April 2007.

Frey, H., Ferguson, N.S., Bagaeen, S.G. and Woods, L. (2006)
Suburbia reconsidered: form, mobility and sustainability, Built Environment, 32(3): 250-266.

Bagaeen, S. and Woods, L. (forthcoming)
Sustainability in the city region: Towards a new way of thinking, planning and managing in Glasgow (further details tbc).

Paper presented at the first NCUEB meeting, University of Bath.

Papers planned on the GIS Approach to Site Survey in ‘Environment & Planning B'; ‘Computers, Environments & Urban Systems'.

Paper planned on Results of Energy Survey in ‘Energy and Buildings'.

Davies, R.G., Barbosa, O., Fuller, R.A., Tratalos, J., Burke, N., Lewis, D., Warren, P.H. and Gaston, K.J. (2008) City-wide relationships between green spaces, urban land use and topography, /Urban Ecosystems/, doi 10.1007/s11252-008-0062-y

Fuller, R.A., Tratalos, J. and Gaston, K.J. Regionally declining birds are disproportionately abundant in a major UK city, (journal tbc).

Gaston, K. J., Fuller, R.A., Loram, A., MacDonald, C., Power, S. & Dempsey, N. in press. Urban domestic gardens (XI): Variation in urban wildlife gardening in the UK. Biodiversity & Conservation. doi 10.1007/s10531-007-9174-6

Tratalos, J., Fuller, R.A., Warren, P.H., Davies, R.G. & Gaston, K.J. in press. Urban form, biodiversity potential and ecosystem services. Landscape and Urban Planning. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.05.003

Tratalos, J., Fuller, R.A., Evans, K.L., Davies, R.G., Newson, S.E., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gaston, K.J. in press. Bird densities are associated with household densities. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01390.x

Davies, Z.G., Fuller, R.A., Loram, A., MacDonald, C., Power, S., Dempsey, N. and Gaston, K.J. Urban domestic gardens (XII): who participates in wildlife gardening? (journal tbc).

Barbosa, O., Davies, R.G., Fuller, R.A. & Gaston, K.J. in press. Biodiversity and housing morphology. Report, (journal tbc).

Fuller, R. (2007) 'Feeling the pinch of compact cities', BBC News: The Green Room, online article, available online

Dr. Richard Fuller appeared on Radio 4's The Material World, discussing Urban Ecology with Quentin Cooper on 14th June 2007, details available online

Fuller, R.A., Warren, P.H., Armsworth P.R., Barbosa, O., Davies, R.G., Tratalos, J. & Gaston, K.J. (2006) 'Separating the effects of different components of urbanization on avian assemblages', North American Ornithological Congress, Veracruz, Mexico, 3 - 7 Oct, (2006)

Fuller, R.A., Tratalos, J., Warren, P.H., Davies, R.G., Pepkowska, A. & Gaston, K.J. Environment and Biodiversity. Book chapter (book tbc).

Prof. Mike Jenks
Sustainable urban form: towards an integrated approach

Dr. Sergio Porta
New approaches to measuring urban form

Prof. Kevin Lomas, Dr. Mark Rylatt
Domestic energy study

Prof. Colin Jones
The influence of density on residential development viability

Dr. Hildebrand Frey, Dr. Samer Bagaeen
Urbanising Suburbia Plus Project: Suburban intensification

Prof. Glen Bramley
Urban form and social sustainability

Dr. Carol Dair, Dr. Katie Williams
Sustainable Lifestyles Plus Project: initial research findings

Dr. Neil Ferguson
Accessibility and sustainable transportation

Dr. Richard Davies et al
Urban form and ecological gradients as predictors of ecosystem performance and the availability of green space

Dr. Katherine Irvine, Dr. Richard Fuller
Valuing Open Space Plus Project: Ecological and psychological perspectives on the biodiversity of urban green space

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