James T White
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James T White |
| GIVEN NAMES | James T |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6315-3165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| 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…
Urban retrofit in Canadian cities
Converting vacant offices into houses is gaining traction as a means of addressing housing affordability in Canadian downtowns. We argue that this adaptive reuse practice is a form of ‘urban retrofit’ with the dual potential to tackle affordability and precipitate wider climate benefits by avoiding carbon-intensive teardown and supporting the creation of mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods in struggling downtowns. Sharing reflections from a Canada…
Is a post-growth future for the New Urban Design possible? A response to Cuthbert and Suartika’s ‘Ideology, science and the New Urban Design – critique and evolution’
Some 25 years ago, Alexander Cuthbert published a trilogy of foundational urban design texts. The first, Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design (Cuthbert 2003), sought to articulate a
Are well-designed places possible? A model of design governance intervention in the planning, design and development of new neighbourhoods
UK planning policies clearly state that well-designed places support the creation of sustainable places that generate positive economic, environment and social outcomes. Yet, for decades, the design value of ‘new build’ housing development has remained stubbornly low. Using data from a multiple case study of new housing developments across the UK’s four nations, this paper asks why this persists and explores how it might be overcome. It models ni…
Repurposing retail space
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Ownership diversity and fragmentation
Fragmentation of ownership has long been a recognised constraint to UK city centre development, a complexity that is growing in significance as centres try to manage the decline in physical retailing and transform obsolete retail units. Yet, our understanding of the structure of ownership and how that might be facilitating or inhibiting urban change remains weak. In this paper, the objective is to address this gap by examining the structure and d…
Not quite the ‘death of the high street’ in UK city centres
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, th…
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…
Planning and the High-Rise Neighbourhood
This editorial introduces the thematic issue on “Vertical Cities: The Development of High-Rise Neighbourhoods.” It outlines the lack of understanding about high-rise development in cities around the world and argues for a continued need to further interrogate concepts of verticality beyond single towers and towards a finer grain examination of high-rise neighbourhoods. The editorial introduces four interconnected themes that begin to address this…
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…
Urban design governance in three Chinese ‘pioneer cities’
This paper investigates the formal instruments of design governance and the urban design decision-making environment in Chinese cities. It identifies Shenzhen, Shanghai and Nanjing as three cities pioneering in design-led planning in China and critically evaluates their approaches using a series of ‘best practice’ principles for design review and development management. The findings are based on 20 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders…
Growing in Glasgow
The Russian revolution of 1905 and the Chinese intellectuals
The article examines the reception of the Russian revolutionary movement and the revolution of 1905 by Chinese reformers and revolutionaries. It reveals how events in Russia were refracted through the imperatives of the Chinese political situation and used to support indigenous political attitudes. It also brings to light relationships between Russian, Chinese and Japanese history which are not apparent when these countries are studied individual…
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Alaska Boundary Award
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…
Growing in Glasgow
Repurposing retail space
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Not quite the ‘death of the high street’ in UK city centres
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, th…
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…
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Alaska Boundary Award
The Russian revolution of 1905 and the Chinese intellectuals
The article examines the reception of the Russian revolutionary movement and the revolution of 1905 by Chinese reformers and revolutionaries. It reveals how events in Russia were refracted through the imperatives of the Chinese political situation and used to support indigenous political attitudes. It also brings to light relationships between Russian, Chinese and Japanese history which are not apparent when these countries are studied individual…
Growing in Glasgow
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…
Urban design governance in three Chinese ‘pioneer cities’
This paper investigates the formal instruments of design governance and the urban design decision-making environment in Chinese cities. It identifies Shenzhen, Shanghai and Nanjing as three cities pioneering in design-led planning in China and critically evaluates their approaches using a series of ‘best practice’ principles for design review and development management. The findings are based on 20 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders…
Planning and the High-Rise Neighbourhood
This editorial introduces the thematic issue on “Vertical Cities: The Development of High-Rise Neighbourhoods.” It outlines the lack of understanding about high-rise development in cities around the world and argues for a continued need to further interrogate concepts of verticality beyond single towers and towards a finer grain examination of high-rise neighbourhoods. The editorial introduces four interconnected themes that begin to address this…
Ownership diversity and fragmentation
Fragmentation of ownership has long been a recognised constraint to UK city centre development, a complexity that is growing in significance as centres try to manage the decline in physical retailing and transform obsolete retail units. Yet, our understanding of the structure of ownership and how that might be facilitating or inhibiting urban change remains weak. In this paper, the objective is to address this gap by examining the structure and d…
Not quite the ‘death of the high street’ in UK city centres
This paper explores the inter-connections between property use diversity, change of use, and the adaptive capacity within urban retailing systems. The retailing centres of five UK case study cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and Nottingham, are examined over a twenty-year period using original databases on property use and geospatial mapping techniques to employ property use richness and diversity metrics in a novel manner. Overall, th…
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…
Are well-designed places possible? A model of design governance intervention in the planning, design and development of new neighbourhoods
UK planning policies clearly state that well-designed places support the creation of sustainable places that generate positive economic, environment and social outcomes. Yet, for decades, the design value of ‘new build’ housing development has remained stubbornly low. Using data from a multiple case study of new housing developments across the UK’s four nations, this paper asks why this persists and explores how it might be overcome. It models ni…
Repurposing retail space
The retail sector is experiencing unprecedented change, from ongoing shifts in shopping behaviour to retailer rationalisation and business failure. Internationally, this is impacting the crucial economic and social role of many highly developed city centres. This paper examines how key stakeholders have responded to the challenges of adapting city centres for the future. Empirically, the paper draws on a series of repurposing schemes across five …
Is a post-growth future for the New Urban Design possible? A response to Cuthbert and Suartika’s ‘Ideology, science and the New Urban Design – critique and evolution’
Some 25 years ago, Alexander Cuthbert published a trilogy of foundational urban design texts. The first, Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design (Cuthbert 2003), sought to articulate a
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…
Urban retrofit in Canadian cities
Converting vacant offices into houses is gaining traction as a means of addressing housing affordability in Canadian downtowns. We argue that this adaptive reuse practice is a form of ‘urban retrofit’ with the dual potential to tackle affordability and precipitate wider climate benefits by avoiding carbon-intensive teardown and supporting the creation of mixed-use, walkable neighbourhoods in struggling downtowns. Sharing reflections from a Canada…
Political science (11 works) · Business (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works)