Alex Lord
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Lord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Lord |
| SIGNATURE | LORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A return ticket for transport investment
Global cities are increasingly developing large transport infrastructure projects to maintain their competitive advantage, but funding these projects is challenging. Land value capture (LVC), which harvests financial contributions from property development, has become one means of providing some of this funding. LVC is however a complicated proposition to utilise and requires careful decision making to ensure sufficient revenue is appropriately r…
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:…
Language Value Capture? Redefining Terms for the Debate on Land’s Public Value
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 …
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning
This article contributes to the small but growing corpus of literature which analyses the increasing use of digital technologies as part of spatial planning activities. Much of that existing literature focuses on the opportunities such technology brings or explores the use of specific technology. Instead, the article seeks to problematise digital planning, explicitly questioning some of the optimistic claims made on its behalf. To do so, it makes…
Putting the Covid-19 pandemic into perspective
Change readiness in individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple complex needs
Purpose This study aims to understand how staff in homelessness services conceptualise readiness for change in the individuals they support and how this informs their decision-making in practice. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative design was used. Ten staff members participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were examined through inductive–deductive thematic analysis, using a social constructivist epistemological lens. Findings Five m…
Viewpoint
How do planners manage risk in alternative land development models? An institutional analysis of land development in the Netherlands
Exploring the geography of retail success and decline
Fear
This paper contributes to the small but growing body of literature on the factors that influence the behavioural nature of planning practice. In this contribution, we specifically focus on fear and fearfulness as emotions that can be seen as having a significant bearing on the emergence of norms of practice. Using case-study evidence from England, we draw upon work in behavioural psychology to argue that in some contexts fear can become a natural…
The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning
The reform of urban and environmental planning in England since the election of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in the emergence of Neighbourhood Planning: a situation in which citizens can autonomously assemble, define the spatial extent of their neighbourhood and author a plan for it. In this paper, we argue that this radical policy is part of a wider agenda to de-professionalise planning as a statutory function and has its roots …
Regional Planning
Is Planning “Under Attack”? Chronicling the Deregulation of Urban and Environmental Planning in England
Successive attempts to reform planning practice in England have given rise to an impression that planning is “under attack”. Various academic commentaries have performed the valuable service of cataloguing aspects of this reform agenda, often within the context of the analytical framework offered by neoliberalization. In this paper, we seek to chronicle the cumulative effects of the sustained programme of neoliberalization to which urban and envi…
Towards a non-theoretical understanding of planning
The post-positivist corpus of planning theory is replete with myriad theoretical interpretations of planning practice. Yet the theory–practice gap remains. This article seeks to explain this theory–practice gap as a systemically inscribed outcome of the very desire to theorise planning in the first place. It is argued that this theoretical disposition to the subject combined with a related preference for a methodological approach that rests on ep…
The cultural turn? Culture change and what it means for spatial planning in England
Too often the culture of planning is reactive and defensive. We want a culture which promotes planning as a positive tool: a culture which grasps the opportunities to improve the experience of plan
From a New Regionalism to an Unusual Regionalism? The Emergence of Non-standard Regional Spaces and Lessons for the Territorial Reorganisation of the State
This paper reports on the results of research to explore a range of attempts to develop new regional forms, and considers the degree to which they accord to conceptualisations of the 'new regionalism' and accounts of the changing territorial structure of the state. It highlights the array of new regional configurations which now extends across the territory of the European Union, discussing the influence exerted by the growth of interest in Europ…
From a New Regionalism to an Unusual Regionalism? The Emergence of Non-standard Regional Spaces and Lessons for the Territorial Reorganisation of the State
This paper reports on the results of research to explore a range of attempts to develop new regional forms, and considers the degree to which they accord to conceptualisations of the 'new regionalism' and accounts of the changing territorial structure of the state. It highlights the array of new regional configurations which now extends across the territory of the European Union, discussing the influence exerted by the growth of interest in Europ…
Exploring the geography of retail success and decline
How do planners manage risk in alternative land development models? An institutional analysis of land development in the Netherlands
The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning
The reform of urban and environmental planning in England since the election of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in the emergence of Neighbourhood Planning: a situation in which citizens can autonomously assemble, define the spatial extent of their neighbourhood and author a plan for it. In this paper, we argue that this radical policy is part of a wider agenda to de-professionalise planning as a statutory function and has its roots …
Viewpoint
Towards a non-theoretical understanding of planning
The post-positivist corpus of planning theory is replete with myriad theoretical interpretations of planning practice. Yet the theory–practice gap remains. This article seeks to explain this theory–practice gap as a systemically inscribed outcome of the very desire to theorise planning in the first place. It is argued that this theoretical disposition to the subject combined with a related preference for a methodological approach that rests on ep…
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:…
Language Value Capture? Redefining Terms for the Debate on Land’s Public Value
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning
This article contributes to the small but growing corpus of literature which analyses the increasing use of digital technologies as part of spatial planning activities. Much of that existing literature focuses on the opportunities such technology brings or explores the use of specific technology. Instead, the article seeks to problematise digital planning, explicitly questioning some of the optimistic claims made on its behalf. To do so, it makes…
From a New Regionalism to an Unusual Regionalism? The Emergence of Non-standard Regional Spaces and Lessons for the Territorial Reorganisation of the State
This paper reports on the results of research to explore a range of attempts to develop new regional forms, and considers the degree to which they accord to conceptualisations of the 'new regionalism' and accounts of the changing territorial structure of the state. It highlights the array of new regional configurations which now extends across the territory of the European Union, discussing the influence exerted by the growth of interest in Europ…
The cultural turn? Culture change and what it means for spatial planning in England
Too often the culture of planning is reactive and defensive. We want a culture which promotes planning as a positive tool: a culture which grasps the opportunities to improve the experience of plan
Towards a non-theoretical understanding of planning
The post-positivist corpus of planning theory is replete with myriad theoretical interpretations of planning practice. Yet the theory–practice gap remains. This article seeks to explain this theory–practice gap as a systemically inscribed outcome of the very desire to theorise planning in the first place. It is argued that this theoretical disposition to the subject combined with a related preference for a methodological approach that rests on ep…
Is Planning “Under Attack”? Chronicling the Deregulation of Urban and Environmental Planning in England
Successive attempts to reform planning practice in England have given rise to an impression that planning is “under attack”. Various academic commentaries have performed the valuable service of cataloguing aspects of this reform agenda, often within the context of the analytical framework offered by neoliberalization. In this paper, we seek to chronicle the cumulative effects of the sustained programme of neoliberalization to which urban and envi…
Regional Planning
The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning
The reform of urban and environmental planning in England since the election of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in the emergence of Neighbourhood Planning: a situation in which citizens can autonomously assemble, define the spatial extent of their neighbourhood and author a plan for it. In this paper, we argue that this radical policy is part of a wider agenda to de-professionalise planning as a statutory function and has its roots …
Fear
This paper contributes to the small but growing body of literature on the factors that influence the behavioural nature of planning practice. In this contribution, we specifically focus on fear and fearfulness as emotions that can be seen as having a significant bearing on the emergence of norms of practice. Using case-study evidence from England, we draw upon work in behavioural psychology to argue that in some contexts fear can become a natural…
Viewpoint
How do planners manage risk in alternative land development models? An institutional analysis of land development in the Netherlands
Exploring the geography of retail success and decline
Putting the Covid-19 pandemic into perspective
Change readiness in individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple complex needs
Purpose This study aims to understand how staff in homelessness services conceptualise readiness for change in the individuals they support and how this informs their decision-making in practice. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative design was used. Ten staff members participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were examined through inductive–deductive thematic analysis, using a social constructivist epistemological lens. Findings Five m…
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 …
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning
This article contributes to the small but growing corpus of literature which analyses the increasing use of digital technologies as part of spatial planning activities. Much of that existing literature focuses on the opportunities such technology brings or explores the use of specific technology. Instead, the article seeks to problematise digital planning, explicitly questioning some of the optimistic claims made on its behalf. To do so, it makes…
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:…
Language Value Capture? Redefining Terms for the Debate on Land’s Public Value
A return ticket for transport investment
Global cities are increasingly developing large transport infrastructure projects to maintain their competitive advantage, but funding these projects is challenging. Land value capture (LVC), which harvests financial contributions from property development, has become one means of providing some of this funding. LVC is however a complicated proposition to utilise and requires careful decision making to ensure sufficient revenue is appropriately r…
Geography (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works)