Planning at the University of Liverpool
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Planning at the University of Liverpool
@livuniplanning.bsky.social
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New open access publication of mine looking at how land value capture instruments support mega-transport projects focusing on Crossrail and GPE in Paris. We find these instruments can be used in different ways are an important part of wider funding packages.
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The changing tracks of land value capture in constrained policy contexts; A comparison of London’s Crossrail and Grand Paris Express
Land value capture is often vaunted as having significant potential to fund public infrastructure, including mega transport projects like urban metro …
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June 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🚨New paper 🚨 I asked senior councillors with highways/transport responsibility across the UK how social media interactions affected their decision making on cycling.

🧵The core findings were:

1) That social media doesn't massively alter decision-making

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Does social media influence local elected leaders? A study of online engagement methods through the lens of cycling policymaking in the United Kingdom
Social media can be sold as a way to improve grassroots citizen engagement, yet the ways in which it affects decisions made by local elected leaders are less well understood. This study examines th...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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What a view from the Roxby Building this morning.
January 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Brilliant to see our Team engaging with Government at the highest level!
Very pleased to be part of a roundtable with the Govt. Chief Scientific Officer and the Minister for Climate. It is apparently the first time that social science experts have been invited to advise on public engagement with grid transformation. We’re hoping it will become the norm.
December 17, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Well done to all our graduates!
@livuniplanning.bsky.social Well done to all our Planning at the University of Liverpool graduates who graduated yesterday at the December University of Liverpool graduation ceremony! Students from all our programmes passed across the stage at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
December 11, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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At a time when local government funding and planning in England under a new government is in the news, this new chapter with @alexnurse.bsky.social, Sebastian Dembski, and Chris Couch takes a 'long view' on nearly half a century of regeneration policy in England.
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Talking about Regeneration – some reflections on 50 years of policy in England
This chapter reflects on nearly half a century of urban regeneration policy in England. It begins by discussing the genesis of regeneration policy in the ‘urban crisis’ of the 1970s and 19...
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December 4, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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New paper with @oliviersykes.bsky.social on what Labour's early actions on Levelling Up tell us about the direction of travel for English Governance and devo.

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November 18, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Hello. Although we're the world's oldest planning school, we're new here!

We'd appreciate any help in getting us on our feet.
November 16, 2024 at 12:40 PM