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From the guttermost to the uttermost and back (2022)
Journal Article

This article comprises an auto-ethnography of my life’s journey: I entered town planning fifty years ago and am now over seventy. It is a personal testimony of how my social class, gender, religion, education, personal characteristics, family and inn... Read More about From the guttermost to the uttermost and back.

The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities (2022)
Book Chapter

Policy initiatives to tackle the effects of rapid urbanisation, to promote sustainable and healthy cities and to encourage economic development are often characterised by a belief in technological solutions. There is typically emphasis upon physical... Read More about The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities.

How environmentalism includes and excludes women: Planning, the personal and the planet (2021)
Book Chapter

Are we still not there yet? Moving along the gender highway (2019)
Book Chapter

This book comprises a collection of international contributions, particularly from Scandinavia, on the extent to which gender has been integrated into transport planning

Gender and Religion in the City (2019)
Book

this book comprises a collection of 15 chapters by a range of contributors covering the main branches of Christianity, plus Islam, secularism and paganism, The book seeks to investigate how gender, urban space and religion interact in shaping urban s... Read More about Gender and Religion in the City.

Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space (2019)
Journal Article

The trend towards desegregated women’s and men’s toilets, including installing Gender Neutral Toilets (GNTs), and the implications of revisions to the Gender Recognition Act for women-only spaces, have brought into focus the pre-existing lack of fema... Read More about Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space.

How inclusion can exclude: The case of public toilet provision for women (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Ingenta. Our built environment is required to meet human needs at the most basic of levels. If our pavements and roads aff ord our movement across the built environment's landscapes, then provisions should also be in place to meet the needs of... Read More about How inclusion can exclude: The case of public toilet provision for women.

Pentecostals and planners (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Before considering the value of community space, we need to ask ‘what is community?’ According to a range of sociological sources (Greed and Johnson, 2015: pp 271-3 and chapter 14), a community may be defined either as a group of people that have som... Read More about Pentecostals and planners.

Sacred spaces in urban environments (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter investigates how religion has shaped architecture and urban form, with particular reference to the place of women in the city, and the division between sacred and profane, and looks at the situation in pre-Christian, Christian, secular a... Read More about Sacred spaces in urban environments.

Taking women's bodily functions into account in urban planning and policy: Public toilets and menstruation (2016)
Journal Article

In this paper, it is argued that public toilets policy is a town planning issue, crucial to creating sustainable, efficient, accessible and equitable cities. Ways of integrating toilet provision into city-wide strategic planning policy and local urba... Read More about Taking women's bodily functions into account in urban planning and policy: Public toilets and menstruation.

Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’ (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment Sustainability objectives are central to modern urban planning. Originally, sustainability had three components, environmental sustainability, economic well-being and social equality: plan... Read More about Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’.

Christianity and planning: Pentecostal churches, occasional paper (2016)
Report

This occasional paper investigates the problems that churches have in trying to get planning permission. Particular problems arise in the case of ethnic-minority churches, including African-majority churches in London. A range of examples are given i... Read More about Christianity and planning: Pentecostal churches, occasional paper.

Ensuring green infrastructure for all (2015)
Book Chapter

Acknowledging and accommodating religion in urban planning policy (2015)
Book Chapter

Planning sustainable transport around people’s needs (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reviews sustainability-driven spatial planning policy from the perspective of ordinary citizens as they seek to travel, live and work, and carry out their daily lives within the sustainable city. The original definition of sustainability c... Read More about Planning sustainable transport around people’s needs.

Taking women’s bodily functions into account in urban planning and sustainability (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper discusses global sanitation issues, in relation to girls and women with reference to toilet provision, menstruation and urbanization. Whilst over 2 billion people lack adequate toilet provision, water supply, sanitation and for that matter... Read More about Taking women’s bodily functions into account in urban planning and sustainability.

Book review: Bathroom (2015)
Journal Article

Gender equality and developing world toilet provision (2015)
Book Chapter

Public toilet provision, gender and menstruation (2014)
Journal Article

Planning in the UK: An Introduction (2014)
Book