Nancy Holman
Biographic Data
| ID | 324757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Holman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Holman |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4536-5092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Managing the Self: The ‘invisible work’ of British Muslim women in maintaining safety in public spaces
This paper explores the socio-spatial dynamics of safety for Muslim women who wear the hijab in Western urban public spaces. Integrating critical interdisciplinary studies, it extends debates on urban planning to include the ‘invisible work’ of identity management. We demonstrate how Muslim women tactically negotiate their identity and safety, adapting their appearance and behaviour in response to their environment and status, both as minorities …
Labour's Commitment to 1.5 Million New Homes: Housing Delivery as an Orchestrator‐Intermediary Challenge
In the UK, the new Labour government has linked the intention to deliver more homes to reform of the planning system, which is seen as a key barrier. Two assumptions inform this reform. First, the system is sound, but there are problems with its administration. Second, there are problems with how the system itself is engineered, for example, by overly constraining land supply. The first we consider a principal‐agent (P‐A) challenge, where local g…
Race-based readings of safety in public space in Milan, the challenge for urban design
Urban designers have long sought to plan more secure public spaces by encouraging a sense of territory through the surveillant and the surveyed. Nevertheless, the racial dimension of this territorialisation is insufficiently recognised. Our research tool, which we have trialled in Milan, identifies the influence of design in creating a sense of security in public space and, independently, the influence of race. It provides designers with a tool t…
Delivering higher density suburban development: The impact of building design and residents’ attitudes
The urgent need for housing in London will be met almost exclusively through building on brownfield sites. While Inner and suburban Outer London are both home to a range of brownfield sites, the politics of delivering new housing varies between the two. First, Outer London is built at significantly lower density and therefore densification has a more noticeable impact. Second, many residents in Outer London value living at lower density and will …
The politics of conservation planning: A comparative study of urban heritage making in the Global North and the Global South
Planning, value(s) and the market: "An analytic for "what comes next
For 30 years, planning has been attacked both rhetorically and materially in England as governments have sought to promote economic deregulation over landuse planning. Our paper examines two new moments of planning deregulation. These are the loosening of regulation around short-term letting in London and the new permitted development rights, which allow for office to residential conversion without the need for planning permission. Whilst these m…
Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities
No Escape? The Coordination Problem in Heritage Preservation
Conservation Areas (CAs) are among the most restrictive English planning policies. Designation implies a significant limitation of owners' control over the shape and appearance of their properties. The policy, however, can also be argued to solve a sort of 'prisoner's dilemma', in which it might be collectively rational to preserve the character of an area, but an individual homeowner may be tempted to inappropriately alter their property, thus f…
Like Mixing Oil and Water? The Take-Up of Sustainability in Hard-to-Reach Places—An East Texas Case Study
Following studies about the adoption of sustainability initiatives in both innovative and ordinary U.S. cities, this article offers a unique view of sustainability in hard-to-reach places where regulation and planning are viewed with suspicion. Taking an interpretive approach to policy analysis, the article asks if hard-to-reach places are destined to remain untouched by what many argue is a central tenet of modern planning. In so doing, it offer…
A Fetish and Fiction of Finance: Unraveling the Subprime Crisis
As the moderately strengthened financial regulation ofBaselIIIcomes into effect over the next seven years, this article sets out a cautionary reminder as to why regulation needs to move beyond a focus on the mitigation and distribution of risk. To do so, the article unravels the much-misunderstood experiences of eight Norwegian municipalities whose investments plummeted as the subprime crisis unfolded: investments that had no immediate ties to su…
What Can Social Capital Tell Us About Planning Under Localism
Local government and the planning system in England are set to be significantly overhauled with the passage of the Localism Act, which received Royal Assent on 15th November 2011. The localism agenda sees a new enhanced role for community participation but this raises a number of key questions: Who will get involved? Will the Act foster NIMBYism? How far can the localism agenda engender action toward implementation? Using the concept of social ca…
Following the Signs: Applying Urban Regime Analysis to a Uk Case Study
As the debate continues regarding the applicability of urban regime analysis in a UK context, three aspects stand out as highly significant: the target for analysis, the mode of scrutiny, and the context of local governing arrangements with its implications for interdependence as an impetus for co-operation. This article will examine urban regime analysis and the move from government to governance in order to answer why and how the private, volun…
Institutions and indicators – The discourse about indicators in the context of sustainability
What Can Social Capital Tell Us About Planning Under Localism
Local government and the planning system in England are set to be significantly overhauled with the passage of the Localism Act, which received Royal Assent on 15th November 2011. The localism agenda sees a new enhanced role for community participation but this raises a number of key questions: Who will get involved? Will the Act foster NIMBYism? How far can the localism agenda engender action toward implementation? Using the concept of social ca…
Following the Signs: Applying Urban Regime Analysis to a Uk Case Study
As the debate continues regarding the applicability of urban regime analysis in a UK context, three aspects stand out as highly significant: the target for analysis, the mode of scrutiny, and the context of local governing arrangements with its implications for interdependence as an impetus for co-operation. This article will examine urban regime analysis and the move from government to governance in order to answer why and how the private, volun…
Institutions and indicators – The discourse about indicators in the context of sustainability
A Fetish and Fiction of Finance: Unraveling the Subprime Crisis
As the moderately strengthened financial regulation ofBaselIIIcomes into effect over the next seven years, this article sets out a cautionary reminder as to why regulation needs to move beyond a focus on the mitigation and distribution of risk. To do so, the article unravels the much-misunderstood experiences of eight Norwegian municipalities whose investments plummeted as the subprime crisis unfolded: investments that had no immediate ties to su…
Planning, value(s) and the market: "An analytic for "what comes next
For 30 years, planning has been attacked both rhetorically and materially in England as governments have sought to promote economic deregulation over landuse planning. Our paper examines two new moments of planning deregulation. These are the loosening of regulation around short-term letting in London and the new permitted development rights, which allow for office to residential conversion without the need for planning permission. Whilst these m…
No Escape? The Coordination Problem in Heritage Preservation
Conservation Areas (CAs) are among the most restrictive English planning policies. Designation implies a significant limitation of owners' control over the shape and appearance of their properties. The policy, however, can also be argued to solve a sort of 'prisoner's dilemma', in which it might be collectively rational to preserve the character of an area, but an individual homeowner may be tempted to inappropriately alter their property, thus f…
Delivering higher density suburban development: The impact of building design and residents’ attitudes
The urgent need for housing in London will be met almost exclusively through building on brownfield sites. While Inner and suburban Outer London are both home to a range of brownfield sites, the politics of delivering new housing varies between the two. First, Outer London is built at significantly lower density and therefore densification has a more noticeable impact. Second, many residents in Outer London value living at lower density and will …
Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities
Like Mixing Oil and Water? The Take-Up of Sustainability in Hard-to-Reach Places—An East Texas Case Study
Following studies about the adoption of sustainability initiatives in both innovative and ordinary U.S. cities, this article offers a unique view of sustainability in hard-to-reach places where regulation and planning are viewed with suspicion. Taking an interpretive approach to policy analysis, the article asks if hard-to-reach places are destined to remain untouched by what many argue is a central tenet of modern planning. In so doing, it offer…
Race-based readings of safety in public space in Milan, the challenge for urban design
Urban designers have long sought to plan more secure public spaces by encouraging a sense of territory through the surveillant and the surveyed. Nevertheless, the racial dimension of this territorialisation is insufficiently recognised. Our research tool, which we have trialled in Milan, identifies the influence of design in creating a sense of security in public space and, independently, the influence of race. It provides designers with a tool t…
Institutions and indicators – The discourse about indicators in the context of sustainability
Following the Signs: Applying Urban Regime Analysis to a Uk Case Study
As the debate continues regarding the applicability of urban regime analysis in a UK context, three aspects stand out as highly significant: the target for analysis, the mode of scrutiny, and the context of local governing arrangements with its implications for interdependence as an impetus for co-operation. This article will examine urban regime analysis and the move from government to governance in order to answer why and how the private, volun…
What Can Social Capital Tell Us About Planning Under Localism
Local government and the planning system in England are set to be significantly overhauled with the passage of the Localism Act, which received Royal Assent on 15th November 2011. The localism agenda sees a new enhanced role for community participation but this raises a number of key questions: Who will get involved? Will the Act foster NIMBYism? How far can the localism agenda engender action toward implementation? Using the concept of social ca…
Like Mixing Oil and Water? The Take-Up of Sustainability in Hard-to-Reach Places—An East Texas Case Study
Following studies about the adoption of sustainability initiatives in both innovative and ordinary U.S. cities, this article offers a unique view of sustainability in hard-to-reach places where regulation and planning are viewed with suspicion. Taking an interpretive approach to policy analysis, the article asks if hard-to-reach places are destined to remain untouched by what many argue is a central tenet of modern planning. In so doing, it offer…
A Fetish and Fiction of Finance: Unraveling the Subprime Crisis
As the moderately strengthened financial regulation ofBaselIIIcomes into effect over the next seven years, this article sets out a cautionary reminder as to why regulation needs to move beyond a focus on the mitigation and distribution of risk. To do so, the article unravels the much-misunderstood experiences of eight Norwegian municipalities whose investments plummeted as the subprime crisis unfolded: investments that had no immediate ties to su…
Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities
No Escape? The Coordination Problem in Heritage Preservation
Conservation Areas (CAs) are among the most restrictive English planning policies. Designation implies a significant limitation of owners' control over the shape and appearance of their properties. The policy, however, can also be argued to solve a sort of 'prisoner's dilemma', in which it might be collectively rational to preserve the character of an area, but an individual homeowner may be tempted to inappropriately alter their property, thus f…
Planning, value(s) and the market: "An analytic for "what comes next
For 30 years, planning has been attacked both rhetorically and materially in England as governments have sought to promote economic deregulation over landuse planning. Our paper examines two new moments of planning deregulation. These are the loosening of regulation around short-term letting in London and the new permitted development rights, which allow for office to residential conversion without the need for planning permission. Whilst these m…
The politics of conservation planning: A comparative study of urban heritage making in the Global North and the Global South
Race-based readings of safety in public space in Milan, the challenge for urban design
Urban designers have long sought to plan more secure public spaces by encouraging a sense of territory through the surveillant and the surveyed. Nevertheless, the racial dimension of this territorialisation is insufficiently recognised. Our research tool, which we have trialled in Milan, identifies the influence of design in creating a sense of security in public space and, independently, the influence of race. It provides designers with a tool t…
Delivering higher density suburban development: The impact of building design and residents’ attitudes
The urgent need for housing in London will be met almost exclusively through building on brownfield sites. While Inner and suburban Outer London are both home to a range of brownfield sites, the politics of delivering new housing varies between the two. First, Outer London is built at significantly lower density and therefore densification has a more noticeable impact. Second, many residents in Outer London value living at lower density and will …
Labour's Commitment to 1.5 Million New Homes: Housing Delivery as an Orchestrator‐Intermediary Challenge
In the UK, the new Labour government has linked the intention to deliver more homes to reform of the planning system, which is seen as a key barrier. Two assumptions inform this reform. First, the system is sound, but there are problems with its administration. Second, there are problems with how the system itself is engineered, for example, by overly constraining land supply. The first we consider a principal‐agent (P‐A) challenge, where local g…
Managing the Self: The ‘invisible work’ of British Muslim women in maintaining safety in public spaces
This paper explores the socio-spatial dynamics of safety for Muslim women who wear the hijab in Western urban public spaces. Integrating critical interdisciplinary studies, it extends debates on urban planning to include the ‘invisible work’ of identity management. We demonstrate how Muslim women tactically negotiate their identity and safety, adapting their appearance and behaviour in response to their environment and status, both as minorities …
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