Robert Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3708897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6232-1323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Placemaking in post-devolution Scotland
This paper investigates the framing and implementation of a distinct placemaking agenda that emerged in Scotland after devolution. Developed over a period of some twenty-five years, Scotland’s placemaking agenda is often upheld for its ambitious commitment to ‘design value’ and pursuit of social and environmental policy goals. Despite this, there has yet to be a comprehensive study of the agenda and its implementation. This paper’s originality li…
Paul Chatterton, How to Save the City
Housing, poverty, and digital exclusion
Given the importance of digital technologies in shaping everyday life, it is widely accepted that digital exclusion is a key facet of poverty. Relatedly, housing inequalities, and the broader structures of entrenched inequalities of which they are a part, are closely connected with digital exclusion. This paper draws on focus groups with people who have experience or knowledge of digital exclusion and the housing sector in the UK. It highlights h…
Three feet under
The sharing of familiar foods is but one of the ways a cultural group identifies itself. But what happens if that cultural group begins to lose touch with, or control of, its food traditions? Worldwide, professional chefs are embracing traditional indigenous cookery techniques and ingredients in their search for national culinary identity. In doing so, the line between ownership and appropriation is becoming an increasingly fine one. Within today…
Conceptualising ‘street-level’ urban design governance in Scotland
This article develops ‘street-level bureaucracy’ theory to conceptualise how policy implementation within urban design governance is shared among actors whose role transcends sectoral responsibilities and motivations. It presents case study research with a Scottish local authority which has made a strategic investment in a placemaking policy agenda, including the creation of an influential design review panel of volunteer experts which exemplifie…
Place leadership through local planning
Amid growing interest in how place leadership supports local and regional development, this paper explores the place leadership contribution of UK local authority planning functions. It does this through case study evidence from West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, where place leadership capacity has been developed to implement a long-term urban design policy agenda. The paper argues that local authority planners play a crucial role in navigating pow…
Technology adoption and weed emergence dynamics
Ecological practices such as intercropping maize ( Zea mays ) with cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L.) have been promoted to combat parasitic weeds like Striga ( Striga asiatica ). Intercropping has been promoted across Africa as a Striga control practice (SCP) and food security measure. Despite past efforts, millions of smallholder farmers (cultivating < 2 ha of maize) still struggle to implement SCPs. Social and ecological factors that prevent SCP i…
Enhancing first‐grade students' social skill performance
We extended research on social skills training to determine if the activities first‐grade students were engaged in while Tootling would influence their performance of two recently trained social skills: complimenting and encouraging peers. After receiving social skills training, students engaged in two experimental small‐group activities, a cooperative activity and a parallel‐play activity. During both activities, a Tootling intervention was appl…
Educational equity, academic standards, and countercontrol
School psychologists have been involved with developing and installing individual contingencies designed to remedy individual students' academic deficits. Group‐oriented contingencies can be applied to broader efforts designed to prevent learning problems class‐wide. Independent group‐oriented rewards are frequently used in school settings to enhance learning by rewarding strong academic performance (e.g., reward for each student who maintains a …
The experience economy in UK city centres
Since the 1990s the UK’s city centre high streets have been losing market share to out-of-town shopping and e-retailing. The shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 have hastened this and precipitated widespread store closures. The experience economy is increasingly promoted as a means to avert the ‘death of the high street’, and this prompts our study of its evolution. An exploration of the literature reveals the experience economy to…
Averting dead mall syndrome
As consumer habits evolve the role of purpose-built shopping centers is being severely tested. The phrase “dead mall syndrome” is now frequently used in North America and parts of Europe to describe shopping centers facing obsolescence. In this paper, we make purpose-built shopping centers in large UK cities our focus and consider the extent to which “dead mall syndrome” and “de-malling” are occurring on the UK’s city center high streets. Using a…
Design Governance, Austerity and the Public Interest
This paper considers how planning authorities can achieve urban design ambitions in the context of deepening neoliberalism and fiscal austerity. Based upon a case study of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the paper reveals the innovative steps taken by the local authority to introduce new design governance tools in the face of significant resource constraints. The paper critically examines the role that the private sector plays in the governance of…
Perspectives of scholars on the nature of sustainability
Purpose This paper aims to investigate different ways in which faculty members of sustainability-related departments in universities across the world perceive, understand and define sustainability and how these definitions are linked to their demographics and epistemological beliefs. Design/methodology/approach Scholars from different disciplines investigate the sustainability of social-ecological systems from different perspectives. Such differe…
Being Singular Plural (Meridian)
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 7: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769
"The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 7: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Faith in a Seed
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Averting dead mall syndrome
As consumer habits evolve the role of purpose-built shopping centers is being severely tested. The phrase “dead mall syndrome” is now frequently used in North America and parts of Europe to describe shopping centers facing obsolescence. In this paper, we make purpose-built shopping centers in large UK cities our focus and consider the extent to which “dead mall syndrome” and “de-malling” are occurring on the UK’s city center high streets. Using a…
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Three feet under
The sharing of familiar foods is but one of the ways a cultural group identifies itself. But what happens if that cultural group begins to lose touch with, or control of, its food traditions? Worldwide, professional chefs are embracing traditional indigenous cookery techniques and ingredients in their search for national culinary identity. In doing so, the line between ownership and appropriation is becoming an increasingly fine one. Within today…
Place leadership through local planning
Amid growing interest in how place leadership supports local and regional development, this paper explores the place leadership contribution of UK local authority planning functions. It does this through case study evidence from West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, where place leadership capacity has been developed to implement a long-term urban design policy agenda. The paper argues that local authority planners play a crucial role in navigating pow…
Conceptualising ‘street-level’ urban design governance in Scotland
This article develops ‘street-level bureaucracy’ theory to conceptualise how policy implementation within urban design governance is shared among actors whose role transcends sectoral responsibilities and motivations. It presents case study research with a Scottish local authority which has made a strategic investment in a placemaking policy agenda, including the creation of an influential design review panel of volunteer experts which exemplifie…
The experience economy in UK city centres
Since the 1990s the UK’s city centre high streets have been losing market share to out-of-town shopping and e-retailing. The shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 have hastened this and precipitated widespread store closures. The experience economy is increasingly promoted as a means to avert the ‘death of the high street’, and this prompts our study of its evolution. An exploration of the literature reveals the experience economy to…
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Faith in a Seed
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 7: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769
"The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 7: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Being Singular Plural (Meridian)
Perspectives of scholars on the nature of sustainability
Purpose This paper aims to investigate different ways in which faculty members of sustainability-related departments in universities across the world perceive, understand and define sustainability and how these definitions are linked to their demographics and epistemological beliefs. Design/methodology/approach Scholars from different disciplines investigate the sustainability of social-ecological systems from different perspectives. Such differe…
Design Governance, Austerity and the Public Interest
This paper considers how planning authorities can achieve urban design ambitions in the context of deepening neoliberalism and fiscal austerity. Based upon a case study of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the paper reveals the innovative steps taken by the local authority to introduce new design governance tools in the face of significant resource constraints. The paper critically examines the role that the private sector plays in the governance of…
Enhancing first‐grade students' social skill performance
We extended research on social skills training to determine if the activities first‐grade students were engaged in while Tootling would influence their performance of two recently trained social skills: complimenting and encouraging peers. After receiving social skills training, students engaged in two experimental small‐group activities, a cooperative activity and a parallel‐play activity. During both activities, a Tootling intervention was appl…
Educational equity, academic standards, and countercontrol
School psychologists have been involved with developing and installing individual contingencies designed to remedy individual students' academic deficits. Group‐oriented contingencies can be applied to broader efforts designed to prevent learning problems class‐wide. Independent group‐oriented rewards are frequently used in school settings to enhance learning by rewarding strong academic performance (e.g., reward for each student who maintains a …
The experience economy in UK city centres
Since the 1990s the UK’s city centre high streets have been losing market share to out-of-town shopping and e-retailing. The shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 have hastened this and precipitated widespread store closures. The experience economy is increasingly promoted as a means to avert the ‘death of the high street’, and this prompts our study of its evolution. An exploration of the literature reveals the experience economy to…
Averting dead mall syndrome
As consumer habits evolve the role of purpose-built shopping centers is being severely tested. The phrase “dead mall syndrome” is now frequently used in North America and parts of Europe to describe shopping centers facing obsolescence. In this paper, we make purpose-built shopping centers in large UK cities our focus and consider the extent to which “dead mall syndrome” and “de-malling” are occurring on the UK’s city center high streets. Using a…
Three feet under
The sharing of familiar foods is but one of the ways a cultural group identifies itself. But what happens if that cultural group begins to lose touch with, or control of, its food traditions? Worldwide, professional chefs are embracing traditional indigenous cookery techniques and ingredients in their search for national culinary identity. In doing so, the line between ownership and appropriation is becoming an increasingly fine one. Within today…
Conceptualising ‘street-level’ urban design governance in Scotland
This article develops ‘street-level bureaucracy’ theory to conceptualise how policy implementation within urban design governance is shared among actors whose role transcends sectoral responsibilities and motivations. It presents case study research with a Scottish local authority which has made a strategic investment in a placemaking policy agenda, including the creation of an influential design review panel of volunteer experts which exemplifie…
Place leadership through local planning
Amid growing interest in how place leadership supports local and regional development, this paper explores the place leadership contribution of UK local authority planning functions. It does this through case study evidence from West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, where place leadership capacity has been developed to implement a long-term urban design policy agenda. The paper argues that local authority planners play a crucial role in navigating pow…
Technology adoption and weed emergence dynamics
Ecological practices such as intercropping maize ( Zea mays ) with cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L.) have been promoted to combat parasitic weeds like Striga ( Striga asiatica ). Intercropping has been promoted across Africa as a Striga control practice (SCP) and food security measure. Despite past efforts, millions of smallholder farmers (cultivating < 2 ha of maize) still struggle to implement SCPs. Social and ecological factors that prevent SCP i…
Paul Chatterton, How to Save the City
Housing, poverty, and digital exclusion
Given the importance of digital technologies in shaping everyday life, it is widely accepted that digital exclusion is a key facet of poverty. Relatedly, housing inequalities, and the broader structures of entrenched inequalities of which they are a part, are closely connected with digital exclusion. This paper draws on focus groups with people who have experience or knowledge of digital exclusion and the housing sector in the UK. It highlights h…
Placemaking in post-devolution Scotland
This paper investigates the framing and implementation of a distinct placemaking agenda that emerged in Scotland after devolution. Developed over a period of some twenty-five years, Scotland’s placemaking agenda is often upheld for its ambitious commitment to ‘design value’ and pursuit of social and environmental policy goals. Despite this, there has yet to be a comprehensive study of the agenda and its implementation. This paper’s originality li…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)