Richard Dunning
Biographic Data
| ID | 1520174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Dunning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunning |
| SIGNATURE | DUNNING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0397-679X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social vulnerability and housing policy
Housing and Society is committed to publishing research that explores the interactions of human housing experiences and the wider social structures that shape those experiences. This issue is no ex
Park life
Few older people move each year, yet many are open to moving if it improves their quality of life and enables them to live independently. Residential park homes, manufactured homes typically owned by the resident but sited on rented land, are marketed as a relatively luxurious affordable downsizing option for older people who wish to maintain their independence. A notable characteristic of the sector is a 10 per cent commission on the resale valu…
Densification policy between state and market
Urban densification has become a central policy goal to deliver much-needed housing while reducing net land take. At the same time there has been a significant shift between the role of the state and the market in how to deliver planning outcomes and the type of regulation to achieve densification. This article investigates recent policy changes to promote densification in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, looking at the role of …
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research
The study of the built environment is evolving with digital advancements and the emergence of a big data era, opening up new possibilities for planning practice and research. However, the integration of digital tools in research and practice calls for consideration of methodological questions. In this article, we compare two studies. One is our own ‘small data’ case study research and the other is a ‘big data’ approach recently published in this …
The changing tracks of land value capture in constrained policy contexts; A comparison of London’s Crossrail and Grand Paris Express
Land value capture is often vaunted as having significant potential to fund public infrastructure, including mega transport projects like urban metro railway schemes. Yet land value capture is frequently challenging to operationalise and project promotors can be reluctant to use it to finance schemes. This article explores why and how land value capture came to be deployed in financing two major contemporary comparable urban railway developments:…
Housing intersectionality – there is no other
Housing and inclusivity
Exception and rule
The assessment of housing requirement has become an important feature of planning practice in many contexts. The calculative practices by which the level of housing requirement is determined represent important instruments that seek to discipline markets to produce sufficient dwellings to meet the assessed level of requirement. However, behind the purportedly objective assessment of housing requirement are assumptions that pertain to a political …
Covid-19
Finding research when half the world’s away
What role does provoking have in understanding housing and society
Investigating the impacts of green spaces planning on social sustainability improvement in Tehran, Iran
Green spaces are foundational to urban social sustainability and solidarity since they are accessible to all citizens without discrimination or restriction. Such spaces enable social interactions, and as places of convergence offer a sense of belonging, participation and social sustainability. Green spaces also can directly contribute to SDG 11 “Sustainable cities and communities". This research investigates the effects of urban green spaces on t…
Age and the 20-min city
The political popularity of the 20-min city is a result of its perceived equal treatment of all citizens, yet the ideal geography fails to consider the diversity of mobilities and needs of different age groups. If 20-min cities are to provide equality for people with limited mobility, they need to understand their location and proximity to the services which meet their needs. Considering older people as a subset of the population with diverse mob…
Land for densification
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
New tenure, new challenges
The 20-minute city
Understanding the geography of affordable housing provided through land value capture
Governments the world over routinely undertake Land Value Capture (LVC) to recover some (or all) of the uplift in land values arising from the right to develop in order to fund infrastructure and public goods. Instruments to exact LVC are diverse but are usually implemented independently. However, since 2011 England has been experimenting with a dual approach to LVC, applying both a tariff-style levy to fund local infrastructure (the Community In…
Ageism, overlapping vulnerabilities and equity in the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19's impact, as a pandemic, has been global But, the extent of this impact on daily life and morbidity is shaped by national and local policy interacting with economic and environmental variables Though reported as the 'great leveller', the burden of infection and mortality disproportionately falls on those already marginalized Here, Darlington-Pollock et al consider the experiences in the UK, where COVID-19 has laid bare deep chasms in soc…
The surprising availability of cycling and walking infrastructure through Covid-19
Localised Perceptions of Large-Scale Active Transport Infrastructure: Resident Attitudes Towards Pedestrian and Cyclist-Only Bridges on the Gold Coast, Australia
The use of public land for house building in England
Enhancing understanding of strategies of land policy for urban densification
Planning control and the politics of soft densification
Increasing the density of existing urban areas can support urban regeneration and environmental sustainability by limiting urban sprawl and linking housing to transport infrastructure. However, making space for small-scale incremental densification poses challenges in managing the cumulative aesthetic, social and infrastructural impacts of incremental development. This paper uses the concept of soft densification to examine the planning challenge…
The object is to change the heart and soul’
In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducements in planning policy. In this paper, we explore this proposal, named ‘Development Benefits’, arguing it offers important insights into how the governing rationality of neoliberalism attempts to govern both planning and opp…
Viewpoint
Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…
Virtuous or vicious circles? Exploring the behavioural connections between developer contributions and path dependence
Understanding the geography of affordable housing provided through land value capture
Governments the world over routinely undertake Land Value Capture (LVC) to recover some (or all) of the uplift in land values arising from the right to develop in order to fund infrastructure and public goods. Instruments to exact LVC are diverse but are usually implemented independently. However, since 2011 England has been experimenting with a dual approach to LVC, applying both a tariff-style levy to fund local infrastructure (the Community In…
Viewpoint
Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…
Competing Notions of Search for Home
The frequent use of the unifying term “behavioural economics” in contemporary economic theories and English housing policies masks divergent accounts of human ability, search processes and housing markets. The resurgence in interest in the behaviours of housing markets brings exchange mechanisms and housing search processes into sharp focus; this paper provides and applies a framework to assess the compatibility of behavioural economics theories …
The use of public land for house building in England
The object is to change the heart and soul’
In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducements in planning policy. In this paper, we explore this proposal, named ‘Development Benefits’, arguing it offers important insights into how the governing rationality of neoliberalism attempts to govern both planning and opp…
The changing tracks of land value capture in constrained policy contexts; A comparison of London’s Crossrail and Grand Paris Express
Land value capture is often vaunted as having significant potential to fund public infrastructure, including mega transport projects like urban metro railway schemes. Yet land value capture is frequently challenging to operationalise and project promotors can be reluctant to use it to finance schemes. This article explores why and how land value capture came to be deployed in financing two major contemporary comparable urban railway developments:…
Social and Economic Change among the Northern Ojibwa
Housing and Tax Policy
Miranda Stewart (Ed.), Sydney, Australian Tax Research Foundation, 2010, 298 pp., $49.50 AUD (pbk), ISBN 9780949482006 In 2008 the Australian Government set up a review panel to consider the tax an
Well Worth Saving
Competing Notions of Search for Home
The frequent use of the unifying term “behavioural economics” in contemporary economic theories and English housing policies masks divergent accounts of human ability, search processes and housing markets. The resurgence in interest in the behaviours of housing markets brings exchange mechanisms and housing search processes into sharp focus; this paper provides and applies a framework to assess the compatibility of behavioural economics theories …
Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…
Virtuous or vicious circles? Exploring the behavioural connections between developer contributions and path dependence
Enhancing understanding of strategies of land policy for urban densification
Planning control and the politics of soft densification
Increasing the density of existing urban areas can support urban regeneration and environmental sustainability by limiting urban sprawl and linking housing to transport infrastructure. However, making space for small-scale incremental densification poses challenges in managing the cumulative aesthetic, social and infrastructural impacts of incremental development. This paper uses the concept of soft densification to examine the planning challenge…
The object is to change the heart and soul’
In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducements in planning policy. In this paper, we explore this proposal, named ‘Development Benefits’, arguing it offers important insights into how the governing rationality of neoliberalism attempts to govern both planning and opp…
Viewpoint
Ageism, overlapping vulnerabilities and equity in the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19's impact, as a pandemic, has been global But, the extent of this impact on daily life and morbidity is shaped by national and local policy interacting with economic and environmental variables Though reported as the 'great leveller', the burden of infection and mortality disproportionately falls on those already marginalized Here, Darlington-Pollock et al consider the experiences in the UK, where COVID-19 has laid bare deep chasms in soc…
The surprising availability of cycling and walking infrastructure through Covid-19
Localised Perceptions of Large-Scale Active Transport Infrastructure: Resident Attitudes Towards Pedestrian and Cyclist-Only Bridges on the Gold Coast, Australia
The use of public land for house building in England
The 20-minute city
Understanding the geography of affordable housing provided through land value capture
Governments the world over routinely undertake Land Value Capture (LVC) to recover some (or all) of the uplift in land values arising from the right to develop in order to fund infrastructure and public goods. Instruments to exact LVC are diverse but are usually implemented independently. However, since 2011 England has been experimenting with a dual approach to LVC, applying both a tariff-style levy to fund local infrastructure (the Community In…
Investigating the impacts of green spaces planning on social sustainability improvement in Tehran, Iran
Green spaces are foundational to urban social sustainability and solidarity since they are accessible to all citizens without discrimination or restriction. Such spaces enable social interactions, and as places of convergence offer a sense of belonging, participation and social sustainability. Green spaces also can directly contribute to SDG 11 “Sustainable cities and communities". This research investigates the effects of urban green spaces on t…
Age and the 20-min city
The political popularity of the 20-min city is a result of its perceived equal treatment of all citizens, yet the ideal geography fails to consider the diversity of mobilities and needs of different age groups. If 20-min cities are to provide equality for people with limited mobility, they need to understand their location and proximity to the services which meet their needs. Considering older people as a subset of the population with diverse mob…
Land for densification
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0
New tenure, new challenges
Exception and rule
The assessment of housing requirement has become an important feature of planning practice in many contexts. The calculative practices by which the level of housing requirement is determined represent important instruments that seek to discipline markets to produce sufficient dwellings to meet the assessed level of requirement. However, behind the purportedly objective assessment of housing requirement are assumptions that pertain to a political …
Covid-19
Finding research when half the world’s away
What role does provoking have in understanding housing and society
Densification policy between state and market
Urban densification has become a central policy goal to deliver much-needed housing while reducing net land take. At the same time there has been a significant shift between the role of the state and the market in how to deliver planning outcomes and the type of regulation to achieve densification. This article investigates recent policy changes to promote densification in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, looking at the role of …
On the need for caution in using ‘big data’ for built environment research
The study of the built environment is evolving with digital advancements and the emergence of a big data era, opening up new possibilities for planning practice and research. However, the integration of digital tools in research and practice calls for consideration of methodological questions. In this article, we compare two studies. One is our own ‘small data’ case study research and the other is a ‘big data’ approach recently published in this …
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