Dr. Claire Colomb
Reader in Planning and Urban Sociology
Claire Colomb (B.A. Hons, Ph.D., MRTPI) is Reader in Planning and Urban Sociology in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her background is in sociology and politics (with a first degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris – Sciences-Po) and urban and regional planning (with a PhD in Town Planning from University College London, the Bartlett School of Planning). Her research interests cover European spatial planning and comparative urban & regional planning; and urban governance, public policies and urban social mobilisations in European cities. She is the author of Staging the New Berlin (Routledge, 2011), European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation (Routledge, 2010, with S. Dühr and V. Nadin) and editor of Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City (Routledge, 2016, with J. Novy).
Recent London posts
Market maturity and investment in London’s Student Accommodation sector
No longer ‘alternative’? One of the most startling findings from the London team’s exploration of investment into residential real estate was the significant volume of capital flowing into the purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector. Research on investment...
Planning for residential ‘value’ in London?
Image by David SamuelIn a seminar for the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, London WHIG team member Nicola Livingstone reflected on findings from a recently published paper that explores planning for ‘value’ through densification. The paper...
The Geographies of Viability Planning
In a recent new publication Whig researchers Jess Ferm and Mike Raco explore the geographies of viability-driven planning reform in England.Drawing on interviews and fieldwork in London and the North East region, the paper reflects on the variable outcomes and...