Dr Iqbal Hamiduddin
Lecturer in Transport Planning and Housing
Iqbal Hamiduddin (B.A. Dunelm, Ph.D UCL) is Lecturer in Transport Planning & Housing in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London), where he is Course Director for the Housing & City Planning MSc programme. His specific research interests are on housing development processes, transport and land use interactions, and community-led planning. He has been PI, Co-I or a team member of ten research projects spanning the fields of transport, planning for housing, governance of planning, and rural development. Recent outputs include the edited volume Self-Build Homes (with Michaela Benson, UCL Press, London) and the co-authored books New Money in the Countryside (with Nick Gallent, Meri Juntti, Nicola Livingstone and Phoebe Stirling; Palgrave, London) and Introduction to Rural Planning (with Nick Gallent, Meri Juntti, Sue Kidd and Dave Shaw; Routledge, London).
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...