TIWWL: Philip Lawton on Why Cities Need Connected Thinking And Planning To Work
This is Where We LiveShow Notes
Dr Philip Lawton is Assistant Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin and someone with a keen interest in shaping sustainable cities and towns. His work has explored the impact of gentrification, the tension between commerce and citizens and the developing model of new urban towns like Adamstown, home to 25,000 people in west Dublin.
Helen Shaw catches up with Philip for This is Where We Live to chat about cities at the junction where Pearse Street meets Trinity College Dublin and they wandered through a campus which dates back over 400 years but which, like Dublin itself, is constantly reinventing itself.
You can find out more about Philip Lawton's research work at:
phillawton.wordpress.com/
www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=lawtontp
Uneven development, suburban futures and the urban region: The case of an Irish ‘sustainable new town’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0969776417694679
The Repackaging of Dublin: The Relevance of the ‘Urban Growth Machine’?https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321624510_The_Repackaging_of_Dublin_The_Relevance_of_the_%27Urban_Growth_Machine%27
And you can find him on twitter @PhilLawton
www.thisiswherewelive.ie/
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