Brian Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9247-960X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Are planners ready for a digital transformation? An exploration of digital planning tools and urban planners’ confidence using ICTs
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) present planning professionals with increasing capacity to communicate, analyse, and collaborate. Although there is a plethora of ICTs available to planners, the planning literature has repeatedly asserted that planners are slow to adopt new ICTs. Despite this, little is known about planners’ actual usage of ICTs in practice, perceptions of ICTs, and confidence using different practice-relevant IC…
Racism and the uneven geography of welfare sanctioning in England
This paper presents the first spatial analysis of racial disparities in the UK welfare sanction regime. As part of their austerity programme, the UK government tightened the conditionality of welfare programmes and intensified the use of financial penalties against welfare claimants who failed to demonstrate compliance with these conditions. Analysing Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Office f…
Digital planning practices
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an integral component of urban planning practice in the last 30 years. The applications, utility and fit of specific technologies within planning practice have been widely discussed, however the use of ICTs by planning practitioners beyond individual case studies is unknown. This paper explores the results of an online survey of Australian and UK planners and comparatively benchmarks t…
Planning and the High-Rise Neighbourhood
This editorial introduces the thematic issue on “Vertical Cities: The Development of High-Rise Neighbourhoods.” It outlines the lack of understanding about high-rise development in cities around the world and argues for a continued need to further interrogate concepts of verticality beyond single towers and towards a finer grain examination of high-rise neighbourhoods. The editorial introduces four interconnected themes that begin to address this…
Residential Land Supply
Planning plays a key role in ensuring the provision of adequate residential land exists for housing development. This paper explores the failure of housing land supply policy in Wales from multiple policy failure perspectives, ultimately identifying three key findings. Firstly, the goal-orientated failure in achieving five-year housing land supply is evident. Secondly, the reasons for failure vary but focus on the ramifications of the calculation…
Googling the City
Toronto’s Quayside waterfront regeneration project has become an international reference point for the burgeoning debate about the scope and limits of the digitally enabled ‘smart city’ narrative. The project signals the entry of a Google affiliate into the realm of ‘smart urbanism’ in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, by allowing them to potentially realise their long-running dream for “someone to give us a city and put us in charge.” This a…
Presidential Position-Taking, Presidential Success, and Interest Group Activity
This is the author acepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Mapping the interview transcript
An interview transcript can be a rich source of geographical references whose potential are not always fully realised in their conventional analysis. Geo‐referencing techniques can be used to assign a spatial footprint to place names, adding value to these data and allowing the geographic information within them to be exploited when coupled with GIS technology. This paper discusses a method of analysing and visualising interview transcripts in or…
The implications of condominium neighbourhoods for long-term urban revitalisation
Condominium neighbourhoods are emerging in intensifying city centres as a response to market and demographic preferences for homeownership. While the multi-ownership structure of individual condominium buildings accommodates a short-term demand, the long-term implications for neighbourhoods is a source of concern. In particular, the presence of unit owners with varied acquisition objectives can lead to an anticommons problem resulting in building…
Fragility and Recovery
Hincks S., Webb B. and Wong C. Fragility and recovery: housing, localities and uneven spatial development in the UK, Regional Studies. Uneven spatial development has long been a characteristic feature of the economic and social fabric of the UK. The north–south divide has become something of a hegemonic narrative in the UK and this has served to mask an ‘archipelago’ of variegated spatial development in housing and locality conditions at sub-nati…
British Paddle Steamers
The implications of condominium neighbourhoods for long-term urban revitalisation
Condominium neighbourhoods are emerging in intensifying city centres as a response to market and demographic preferences for homeownership. While the multi-ownership structure of individual condominium buildings accommodates a short-term demand, the long-term implications for neighbourhoods is a source of concern. In particular, the presence of unit owners with varied acquisition objectives can lead to an anticommons problem resulting in building…
Presidential Position-Taking, Presidential Success, and Interest Group Activity
This is the author acepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Fragility and Recovery
Hincks S., Webb B. and Wong C. Fragility and recovery: housing, localities and uneven spatial development in the UK, Regional Studies. Uneven spatial development has long been a characteristic feature of the economic and social fabric of the UK. The north–south divide has become something of a hegemonic narrative in the UK and this has served to mask an ‘archipelago’ of variegated spatial development in housing and locality conditions at sub-nati…
British Paddle Steamers
Fragility and Recovery
Hincks S., Webb B. and Wong C. Fragility and recovery: housing, localities and uneven spatial development in the UK, Regional Studies. Uneven spatial development has long been a characteristic feature of the economic and social fabric of the UK. The north–south divide has become something of a hegemonic narrative in the UK and this has served to mask an ‘archipelago’ of variegated spatial development in housing and locality conditions at sub-nati…
The implications of condominium neighbourhoods for long-term urban revitalisation
Condominium neighbourhoods are emerging in intensifying city centres as a response to market and demographic preferences for homeownership. While the multi-ownership structure of individual condominium buildings accommodates a short-term demand, the long-term implications for neighbourhoods is a source of concern. In particular, the presence of unit owners with varied acquisition objectives can lead to an anticommons problem resulting in building…
Mapping the interview transcript
An interview transcript can be a rich source of geographical references whose potential are not always fully realised in their conventional analysis. Geo‐referencing techniques can be used to assign a spatial footprint to place names, adding value to these data and allowing the geographic information within them to be exploited when coupled with GIS technology. This paper discusses a method of analysing and visualising interview transcripts in or…
Presidential Position-Taking, Presidential Success, and Interest Group Activity
This is the author acepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Googling the City
Toronto’s Quayside waterfront regeneration project has become an international reference point for the burgeoning debate about the scope and limits of the digitally enabled ‘smart city’ narrative. The project signals the entry of a Google affiliate into the realm of ‘smart urbanism’ in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, by allowing them to potentially realise their long-running dream for “someone to give us a city and put us in charge.” This a…
Residential Land Supply
Planning plays a key role in ensuring the provision of adequate residential land exists for housing development. This paper explores the failure of housing land supply policy in Wales from multiple policy failure perspectives, ultimately identifying three key findings. Firstly, the goal-orientated failure in achieving five-year housing land supply is evident. Secondly, the reasons for failure vary but focus on the ramifications of the calculation…
Planning and the High-Rise Neighbourhood
This editorial introduces the thematic issue on “Vertical Cities: The Development of High-Rise Neighbourhoods.” It outlines the lack of understanding about high-rise development in cities around the world and argues for a continued need to further interrogate concepts of verticality beyond single towers and towards a finer grain examination of high-rise neighbourhoods. The editorial introduces four interconnected themes that begin to address this…
Digital planning practices
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an integral component of urban planning practice in the last 30 years. The applications, utility and fit of specific technologies within planning practice have been widely discussed, however the use of ICTs by planning practitioners beyond individual case studies is unknown. This paper explores the results of an online survey of Australian and UK planners and comparatively benchmarks t…
Racism and the uneven geography of welfare sanctioning in England
This paper presents the first spatial analysis of racial disparities in the UK welfare sanction regime. As part of their austerity programme, the UK government tightened the conditionality of welfare programmes and intensified the use of financial penalties against welfare claimants who failed to demonstrate compliance with these conditions. Analysing Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Office f…
Are planners ready for a digital transformation? An exploration of digital planning tools and urban planners’ confidence using ICTs
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) present planning professionals with increasing capacity to communicate, analyse, and collaborate. Although there is a plethora of ICTs available to planners, the planning literature has repeatedly asserted that planners are slow to adopt new ICTs. Despite this, little is known about planners’ actual usage of ICTs in practice, perceptions of ICTs, and confidence using different practice-relevant IC…
Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Regional science (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works)