Title
Lecturer in Urban Planning Studies
Department
Department of Geography and Environment
Biography
Alan has worked as a spatial planner in London where for a number of years he combined practice and academic work. He has considerable experience of community involvement in major planning applications and policy development. He has carried out policy focussed research on second homes for the Welsh Assembly Government and the Countryside Agency and on internal space standards in England and Italy (funded by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors). Alan is also interested in governance and planning and is currently part of a research team funded by the Norwegian Government to look at the decision making process informing the outcomes of compact city initiatives. Alan’s current research interests also include relational suburban places, in particular he is interested in how residents construct and maintain a sense of belonging in the suburbs. Until 2014 he is working with a team from Hosei University in Tokyo on an international comparative project which looks at policy responses to shrinking/declining suburban areas. His previous work on shrinking cities includes a comparative study of policy responses in Manchester and Leipzig which was completed for the Anglo-German Foundation.
Research interests and areas of supervision
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Community involvement and planning
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Planning and governance
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Suburbanisation
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Shrinking cities / suburbs
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Second homes
Selected recent publications
Gallent, N., Madeddu, M., & Mace, A., (2010) Internal Housing Space Standards in Italy and England. Progress in Planning 74, pp 1-52
Mace, A., (2009) Suburbanisation, in Kitchen, R., and Thrift, R., (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier Publishing
Mace, A., Hall, P & Gallent, N., (2007) New East Manchester: Urban Renaissance or Urban Opportunism? European Planning StudiesVol 15 No.1 pp51-66
Gallent, N., Mace, A. and Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2005) Second Homes: European Perspectives: UK Policy, London: Ashgate. ISBN 0 7546 4239 9, London: Ashgate. ISBN 0 7546 4239 9
Contact Details
E-mail: a.mace@lse.ac.uk|
Tel.: [44] (0)20 7955 6847
Fax: [44] (0)20 7955 7412
Room: STC 5.09