Christopher Maidment

Biographic Data

ID4621124
NAMEChristopher Maidment
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEMaidment
SIGNATUREMAIDMENT C
AFFILIATIONSChristopher Maidment is Lecturer in Planning at University of Reading, Department of Real Estate and Planning, Whiteknights Campus, Reading RG6 6UD, UK;.
ORCID0000-0002-9158-6910
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Making Space for Time

    Robin A Chang, Filipa Matos Wunderlich et al.ARTICLEPlanning Theory & Practice2025

    ContentsIntroduction: Making Space for TimeRobin A. Chang and Filipa Matos WunderlichTemporal Urbanism: A Post-Growth, Time-Sensitive Approach to Regenerative Urban EnvironmentsFilipa Matos Wunderl

  • Planning education and the field of practice

    Gavin Parker, Christopher MaidmentARTICLETown Planning Review2025

    In the context of change and pressures to reconfigure formal planning education, the article draws on Bourdieu’s field theory to frame the experience of graduates in initial planning education in the UK. The research situates education in a contested professional context. The findings hold import for the profession given that relevant knowledge is expanding and core knowledge must be retained and instilled early, while training about specific pol…

  • Difficulties for Theorisation Within Planning Research and Practice – An Exploration of Key Dimensions of Planning Theories

    Meike Levin-Keitel, Franziska Sielker et al.ARTICLEPlanning Theory & Practice2025References: 3

    The contribution by Benjamin Davy, Agnes Förster and Edward Shepherd sheds light on normative conflicts and the foundations of spatial planning in theories and practice. Here, the challenge of theorising lies in moving beyond individual moral-ethical positions. Instead of just referring to one set of individual planning ethics, the authors engage to reflect fundamentally on how planners can make clashing normative values visible and negotiable. T…

  • In defence of good planning

    Open AccessGavin Parker, Christopher MaidmentARTICLETown Planning Review2024

    This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0

  • An understanding gap? Planning education in a time of change

    Open AccessChristopher Maidment, Gavin ParkerARTICLETown Planning Review2023

    Building on Taylor and Close’s (2022) commentary reviewing the skills gap concerning how planners are educated and trained, this response places this ‘gap’ in the context of key relationships that shape this; between skills, knowledges and attitudes, including a more nuanced understanding of knowledge; between the Royal Town Planning Institute, planning schools and employers and between planning and other built-environment disciplines. The result…

  • Timber beds, protests and publics

    Christopher MaidmentARTICLETown Planning Review2021

    This paper discusses a case small in scale, but one which raises questions around how different conceptions of what is in the public interest are reconciled in the English regulatory planning system. The case in question is the proposed redevelopment of three 1850s shops in Sheffield’s Devonshire Quarter, traditionally home to independent retailers. The paper illustrates how a small scale planning application can generate national attention, thro…

  • Smart local energy systems (SLES)

    Open AccessRebecca Ford, Christopher Maidment et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2021

  • Enabling knowledge brokerage intermediaries to be evidence-informed

    Open AccessDavid Gough, Christopher Maidment et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2021References: 7

    Target audience: What Works Centres; other intermediary brokerage agencies; their funders and users; and researchers of research use. Background: Knowledge brokerage and knowledge mobilisation (KM) are generic terms used to describe activities to enable the use of research evidence to inform policy, practice and individual decision making. Knowledge brokerage intermediary (KBI) initiatives facilitate such use of research evidence. This debate pap…

  • The Future of the Planning Profession

    Gavin Parker, Matthew Wargent et al.ARTICLEPlanning Theory & Practice2020

    This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …

  • In the public interest? Planning in the Peak District National Park

    Open AccessChristopher MaidmentARTICLEPlanning Theory2016Cited by: 3References: 6

    The recent history of the public interest is one of misappropriation. Practitioners have been found to value the concept but have struggled to articulate how it guides day-to-day planning practice. It has been used to portray a homogeneous public, furthering the interests of the powerful at the expense of recognising social diversity, and leading to calls for the concept’s abandonment. Yet this article starts from the argument that the public int…