Paula Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3286-2492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Steering compact growth through national planning frameworks: Challenges and constraints in Ireland
Comparative analyses of publicness in urban squares within a diversifying metropolis
Ensuring publicness and accommodating more diverse human activity in urban public spaces is necessary. This research analyses the relationship between human activities, ownership, and physical features encouraging or discouraging use within the city centre of Dublin (Ireland), a diversifying metropolis experiencing dereliction. Four urban squares were assessed through fieldwork, including direct observation and behavioural mapping. Results indica…
The first revision to Ireland’s National Planning Framework: An environmental turn
Ireland’s National Planning Framework (NPF) was adopted in 2018. The ‘First Revision’ to the NPF was published in April 2025. This revision updates the NPF during a period of multiple challenges. Appreciating the content and consequences of what this revision entails is central to understanding the direction of travel for Irish planning. In this Practice Review, we update our previous paper in Planning Practice and Research, which reviewed the in…
Introduction to the special issue
The article is the introduction to an Urban Research and Practice special issue conceived with the aim of exploring some of the different ways EU regional policy may have influenced the development process of four Southern European cities, Porto (PT), Malaga (ES), Palermo (IT), and Thessaloniki (GR). The selection of case studies relates to cities at the ‘margins of Europe’ in both the sense of places outside the geographical core of the continen…
Ireland’s New National Planning Framework: (Re)Balancing and (Re)Conceiving Planning for the Twenty-First Century
This article examines the recent evolution of national spatial planning in Ireland, focusing on the recent publication of National Planning Framework (NPF) in 2018. The NPF is Ireland’s second national strategy for spatial development and represents a further shift away from traditional land-use regulation towards broader-based strategic spatial planning. In this commentary, we reflect on official perspectives regarding the role that planning sho…
The dynamics of tourism discourses and policy in Brazil
Active Citizenship and Local Representational Politics in Twenty-First Century Ireland: The Role of Residents Groups within Dublin's Planning Arena
This paper explores the relationship between active citizenship at a local level and the workings of local government, focusing on urban planning processes in the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland. The paper argues that to fully understand the role of community actors within urban planning, there is a need to look beyond the institutions of planning and formal avenues of decision-making to examine the overlapping, disorganized and informal practices t…
Active citizenship, civil society and managing spatial change in the rural–urban fringe
This article explores the nature of the relationship between residents' associations and the local state through a detailed empirical examination of the activities of residents' associations within the rural–urban fringe, focusing on a case study of rural communities in close proximity to the Republic of Ireland's capital city, Dublin. This article argues that attempts to influence policy outcomes are undermined by powerful developer and landowni…
Active citizenship, civil society and managing spatial change in the rural–urban fringe
This article explores the nature of the relationship between residents' associations and the local state through a detailed empirical examination of the activities of residents' associations within the rural–urban fringe, focusing on a case study of rural communities in close proximity to the Republic of Ireland's capital city, Dublin. This article argues that attempts to influence policy outcomes are undermined by powerful developer and landowni…
The dynamics of tourism discourses and policy in Brazil
Active Citizenship and Local Representational Politics in Twenty-First Century Ireland: The Role of Residents Groups within Dublin's Planning Arena
This paper explores the relationship between active citizenship at a local level and the workings of local government, focusing on urban planning processes in the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland. The paper argues that to fully understand the role of community actors within urban planning, there is a need to look beyond the institutions of planning and formal avenues of decision-making to examine the overlapping, disorganized and informal practices t…
Active citizenship, civil society and managing spatial change in the rural–urban fringe
This article explores the nature of the relationship between residents' associations and the local state through a detailed empirical examination of the activities of residents' associations within the rural–urban fringe, focusing on a case study of rural communities in close proximity to the Republic of Ireland's capital city, Dublin. This article argues that attempts to influence policy outcomes are undermined by powerful developer and landowni…
Active Citizenship and Local Representational Politics in Twenty-First Century Ireland: The Role of Residents Groups within Dublin's Planning Arena
This paper explores the relationship between active citizenship at a local level and the workings of local government, focusing on urban planning processes in the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland. The paper argues that to fully understand the role of community actors within urban planning, there is a need to look beyond the institutions of planning and formal avenues of decision-making to examine the overlapping, disorganized and informal practices t…
The dynamics of tourism discourses and policy in Brazil
Ireland’s New National Planning Framework: (Re)Balancing and (Re)Conceiving Planning for the Twenty-First Century
This article examines the recent evolution of national spatial planning in Ireland, focusing on the recent publication of National Planning Framework (NPF) in 2018. The NPF is Ireland’s second national strategy for spatial development and represents a further shift away from traditional land-use regulation towards broader-based strategic spatial planning. In this commentary, we reflect on official perspectives regarding the role that planning sho…
Introduction to the special issue
The article is the introduction to an Urban Research and Practice special issue conceived with the aim of exploring some of the different ways EU regional policy may have influenced the development process of four Southern European cities, Porto (PT), Malaga (ES), Palermo (IT), and Thessaloniki (GR). The selection of case studies relates to cities at the ‘margins of Europe’ in both the sense of places outside the geographical core of the continen…
Comparative analyses of publicness in urban squares within a diversifying metropolis
Ensuring publicness and accommodating more diverse human activity in urban public spaces is necessary. This research analyses the relationship between human activities, ownership, and physical features encouraging or discouraging use within the city centre of Dublin (Ireland), a diversifying metropolis experiencing dereliction. Four urban squares were assessed through fieldwork, including direct observation and behavioural mapping. Results indica…
The first revision to Ireland’s National Planning Framework: An environmental turn
Ireland’s National Planning Framework (NPF) was adopted in 2018. The ‘First Revision’ to the NPF was published in April 2025. This revision updates the NPF during a period of multiple challenges. Appreciating the content and consequences of what this revision entails is central to understanding the direction of travel for Irish planning. In this Practice Review, we update our previous paper in Planning Practice and Research, which reviewed the in…
Steering compact growth through national planning frameworks: Challenges and constraints in Ireland
Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urban planning (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Active citizenship (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works)