Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres
A study of the relationship between morphology, sociability, economics and accessibility

Research Staff

Dr Laura Vaughan (Principal Investigator) has been working with the 'Space' research group - one of the largest multi-disciplinary architectural research groups in the UK - since 1993. She is currently the Director of the MSc Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in Urban and Suburban Settlement Patterns. In the past two years Dr Vaughan has piloted research into the spatial form of suburbs and suburban towns. email | website

Dr Muki Haklay (Co-investigator) is a Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information Science (GIScience) in the department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL and teaches on the MSc in GIScience at UCL. Dr Haklay has been working with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) since 1989, and has developed innovative solutions in GIS throughout his academic career.email | website

Dr Sam Griffiths (Research Fellow) has expertise in space syntax, urban morphology and historical methods. His academic background is in urban history and he gained his doctorate, researched at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, from the University of London. email

Dr Kate (Catherine) E. Jones (Research Fellow) has an MSc in Geographical Information Systems and a PhD in modelling health inequalities, both from UCL's Department of Geography. Before joining the SSTC project team she worked for three years on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT) and UCL Department of Geography implementing GIS and Geodemographic tools for health care. email

 

Contributors

The following students and interns have all made important contributions to the project's development:

Alejandra Celedon Forster (2007) - MSc dissertation research into scaled definitions of centrality in Greater London's suburbs.

Noémie Grémeaux (2007) - performing spatial analysis of socio-economic variables across London and its suburbs, using census and land-use data.

Fergus Martin (2008) - testing for the existence of 'clone towns' in London suburbs.

Guillaume Olive (2008) - development of an historical GIS (HGIS) working environment for London and its suburbs using maps from 4 historical periods.

 

Project contacts: email: sstc@ucl.ac.uk - telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 1833 - general enquiries: contact us

EPSRC reference: EP/D06595X/1