Geoff Vigar
Geoff Vigar is Senior Lecturer at School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University. Currently he is the Director of Global Urban Research Unit at the university.
Research interests
His research focuses on strategy development and implementation in land-use and
transport planning, and the role and incorporation of social and environmental issues into governance practices in particular. His research centres on how governance
Research projects
- Development of Regional Transport Strategies in England including participant observation of the preparation process in North East England.
- SINGOCOM: Social innovation in territorial development funded through the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme.
Publications
- with Porter,G., (2005), Regional Governance and Strategic Transport Policy: the case of North East England, European Spatial Research and Policy, 12(1) pp89-108.
- with Graham,SDN., and Healey, P., (2005), Searching for the City in Spatial Strategies, Urban Studies, 42(8), July. view abstract/article
- with Haggett, C. (2004), Tilting at Windmills, Town and Country Planning, October, 73 (10), pp288-290.
- (2004), Researching Wind Energy Developments: Perspectives from Planning Theory, Working Paper for ESRC Tilting at Windmills project, Newcastle University: Newcastle.
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