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Professor Alison Brown
Professor of Urban Planning & International Development
School of Geography and Planning
Overview
Alison Brown is Professor of Urban Planning and International Development in the School of Geography and Planning, and Director for the Master’s in International Planning and Development. She is an urban planner and development policy expert with international experience in academia and professional practice in over 30 different countries, in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. She is convenor of the School’s Informality Research Observatory.
Her research focuses on urban planning and development in emerging and post-conflict cities, urban livelihoods, protracted displacement and refugee economies. She is part of a winning consortium recently awarded GCRF funding entitled Out of Camp or Out of Sight: Realigning Protracted Displacement in an Urban World. She has led several large research projects under the ESRC/DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation and the ESRC/DFID Growth Research Programme, on law, rights and regulation in the informal economy; micro-finance regulation for urban micro-enterprises, and economic recovery in post-conflict cities. She has studied refugee economies in Ethiopia, and the poverty impacts of the China/Africa trade on African markets.
Alison has published on the informal economy, refugee economies and rights-based approaches to development, and has undertaken research and consultancy for UN-Habitat, the ESRC, UK's DFID, Defra and DCLG, and the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). She was an advisor on DFID's Evidence on Demand service on climate, environment and livelihoods and wrote specialist Topic Guides on Livelihoods and Urbanisation and Planning for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities in the Global South. She is editor of the Commonwealth e-Journal of Local Governance, and is a member of several advisory committees.
Alison also has extensive experience in planning practice in the UK, working as consultant to central and local government, private sector clients, community groups and NGOs. She has experience in planning applications and appeals, as an expert witness at planning inquiries, and in preparing research reports as inputs to development plans.
Publication
2024
- Garcia Amado, P., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2024. Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city. Environment and Urbanization 36(2), pp. 340-357. (10.1177/09562478241277070)
- Brown, A., Mackie, P., Garcia Amado, P., Barratt, S. and Krisiunaite, A. 2024. Urban protracted displacement and displacement economies. Environment and Urbanization 36(2), pp. 278-299. (10.1177/09562478241277087)
- Brown, A., Mackie, P. and García Amado, P. 2024. The displacement economies framework. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (10.1080/15562948.2024.2379380)
- Smith, T. A., Brown, A. and Owen, J. 2024. Scaling low-income housing delivery in Kenya and the Philippines: community participation and livelihoods outcomes. International Development Planning Review 46(2), pp. 107-121. (10.3828/idpr.2024.3)
- Esayas Dube, E. and Brown, A. 2024. ‘Normalizing informality’ in local–transnational spaces: Contraband, conflict and street trade in Eastern Ethiopia. Journal of Asian and African Studies (10.1177/00219096241230495)
- Brown, A., Charkrabati, B., MacKie, P., Fuller, C., Bhattacharya, R., Bagchi, S. and Chakrabarti, D. 2024. Contested spaces of exchange: Informal cross-border trade on the India-Bangladesh border.. Forum for Development Studies 51(1), pp. 121-143. (10.1080/08039410.2023.2255211)
2022
- MacKie, P., Brown, A. M. B., Mehmood, A. and Ahmed, S. 2022. Multi-dimensional conflict and the resilient urban informal economy in Karachi, Pakistan. International Development Planning Review 44(2), pp. 169-189.
2020
- Lewis, D., Kebede, G., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2020. Urban crises and the informal economy: surviving, managing, thriving in post-conflict cities. UNHabitat. Available at: https://www.alnap.org/help-library/urban-crises-and-the-informal-economy-surviving-managing-thriving-in-post-conflict
- Ahmed, S. U. D., Mehmood, A. and Brown, A. 2020. Informal power structures: towards provision of services and security of tenure. In: Van den Broeck, P. et al. eds. Communities, Land and Social Innovation: Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 195-213.
2019
- Smith, T. and Brown, A. 2019. Community-led housing and urban livelihoods: measuring employment in low-income housing delivery. Habitat International 94, article number: 102061. (10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102061)
- Lewis, D., Kebede, G., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2019. Urban crises and the informal economy: surviving, managing, thriving in post-conflict cities.. Cardiff University.
- Omoegun, A. O., MacKie, P. and Brown, A. 2019. The aftermath of eviction in the Nigerian informal economy. International Development Planning Review 41(1), pp. 107-128. (10.3828/idpr.2018.30)
- Martinez, L., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2019. Local economic development, micro-enterprise and crime reduction: lessons from Cali, Colombia. UNHabitat. Available at: https://unhabitat.org/local-economic-development-micro-enterprise-and-crime-reduction-lessons-from-cali-colombia
- Smith, T. A., Brown, A. and Owen, J. 2019. Employment generation from affordable housing: Outcomes of Reall-funded CLIFF projects in Kenya and the Philippines.. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University School and Geography.
2018
- Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2018. Politics and street trading in Africa: Developing a comparative frame.. Articulo: Journal of Urban Research 2018(17-18) (10.4000/articulo.3612)
2017
- MacKie, P., Brown, A., Dickenson, K., Ahmed Hassan, S. and Barawani, M. A. M. 2017. Informal economies, conflict recovery and absent aid. Environment and Urbanization 29(2), pp. 365-382. (10.1177/0956247817719868)
- Brown, A., Kafafy, N. and Hayder, A. 2017. Street trading in the shadows of the Arab Spring. Environment and Urbanization 29(1), pp. 283-298. (10.1177/0956247816673559)
- MacKie, P., Swanson, K. and Goode, R. 2017. Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America. In: Brown, A. M. B. ed. Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Routledge, pp. 63-76.
- Brown, A. M. B. and MacKie, P. 2017. Urban informality and 'rebel streets'. In: Brown, A. M. B. ed. Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Routledge, pp. 1-16.
- Brown, A. M. B. ed. 2017. Rebel streets and the informal economy: Street trade and the law. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City. Routledge.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Roever, S. 2017. Enhancing productivity in the urban informal economy. Project Report. [Online]. Nairobi: UN-Habitat. Available at: https://unhabitat.org/books/enhancing-productivity-in-the-urban-informal-economy/
- Brown, A. M. B. and Ahmed, S. 2017. Local government dissolution in Karachi: chasm or catalyst?. Third World Thematics 1(6), pp. 879-897. (10.1080/23802014.2016.1315318)
2015
- Brown, A. 2015. Claiming the streets: property rights and legal empowerment in the urban informal economy. World Development 76, pp. 238-248. (10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.07.001)
- Brown, A., Msoka, C. and Dankoco, I. 2015. A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy?. Urban Studies 52(12), pp. 2234-2249. (10.1177/0042098014544758)
2014
- MacKie, P., Bromley, R. D. F. and Brown, A. 2014. Informal traders and the battlegrounds of revanchism in Cusco, Peru. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(5), pp. 1884-1903. (10.1111/1468-2427.12161)
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Msoka, C. 2014. Do micro enterprises benefit from the 'doing business' reforms? the case of street-vending in Tanzania. Urban Studies 51(8), pp. 1593-1612. (10.1177/0042098013497412)
2013
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Li, Z. 2013. The China–Africa value chain: Can Africa’s small-scale entrepreneurs engage successfully in global trade?. African Studies Review 56(3), pp. 77-100. (10.1017/asr.2013.80)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2013. The right to the city: Road to Rio 2010. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37(3), pp. 957-971. (10.1111/1468-2427.12051)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2013. Municipal partnerships for prosperity: empowering the working poor in local economic development. In: Sansom, G. and McKinley, P. eds. New Century Local Government: Commonwealth Perspectives. Commonwealth Secretariat, pp. 129-144.
2012
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Msoka, C. 2012. (Why) have pro-poor policies failed Africa's working poor?. Journal of International Development 24(8), pp. 1008-1029. (10.1002/jid.2876)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2012. China's 'Chocolate City': an ethnic enclave in a changing landscape. African Diaspora 5(1), pp. 51-72.
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Li, Z. 2012. In the Dragon's Den: African Traders in Guangzhou. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38(5), pp. 869-888. (10.1080/1369183X.2012.668030)
2010
- Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2010. Has mercantilism reduced urban poverty in SSA? Perception of boom, bust, and the China-Africa trade in Lomé and Bamako. World Development 38(5), pp. 771-782. (10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.009)
- Brown, A. M. B., Lyons, M. and Dankoco, I. 2010. Street traders and the emerging spaces for urban voice and citizenship in African cities. Urban Studies 47(3), pp. 666-683. (10.1177/0042098009351187)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2010. Taking Forward the Right to the City. Report on e-Debate 1. UN-Habitat.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2010. Seen but not heard: urban voice and citizenship for street traders. In: Lindell, I. ed. Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transitional Organizing in Urban Africa. London: Zed Books, pp. 33-45.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2010. Requiem for stability: impact of the global financial crisis on the world's working poor. International Planning Studies 15(3), pp. 175-189. (10.1080/13563475.2010.509472)
2009
- Brown, A. M. B. 2009. Rights to the city for street traders and informal workers. In: Jouve, B. and Taylor, P. eds. Urban Policies and the Right to the City. Citurb: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, pp. 137-155.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2009. After the fall: can informality signpost a new world order?. Presented at: Development Studies Association Annual Conference: Current Crises and New Opportunities, University of Ulster.
- Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2009. Multiple reform agendas and the African street: An emerging legal pluralism?. Presented at: 11th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Kingston University, London.
- Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2009. Has mercantilism reduced urban poverty in the SSA?: Boom and bust in the China - Africa trade in Lome and Bamako. Presented at: 11th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Kingston University, London.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2009. Rise of the phoenix? The global recession and the urban informal economy. Presented at: Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Ulster, Northern Ireland.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2009. Braving the Dragon's Den: African traders in Guangzhou 2005-2008. Presented at: CCIG/IKD Asian Mobilities Workshop, Open University, Milton Keynes.
2008
- Brown, A. M. B. and Kristiansen, A. 2008. Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, responsibilities and citizenship. Project Report. [Online]. Paris: UNESCO, UN-Habitat. Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001780/178090e.pdf
- Li, Z., Xue, D., Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2008. The African Enclave of Guangzhou: A Case Study of Xiaobeilu. Acta Geographica Sinica 63(2), pp. 208-218.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2008. Evaluating the contribution of urban public space to quality of life: experience from the developed and developing world. In: Zoppi, C. ed. Governance, Pianificazione e Valutazione Strategica: Sviluppo sostenibile e governance nella pianificazione urbanistica. Rome: Gangemi Editore, pp. 49-64.
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Li, Z. 2008. The 'third tier' of globalization. City 12(2), pp. 196-206. (10.1080/13604810802167036)
2006
- Brown, A. M. B. 2006. Contested space: street trading, public space, and livelihoods in developing cities. Urban Management Series. Rugby: ITDG Publishing.
2002
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lloyd-Jones, T. 2002. Spatial planning, access and infrastructure. In: Rakodi, C. I. and Lloyd-Jones, T. eds. Urban Livelihoods: A People-Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty. London: Earthscan, pp. 188-204.
2001
- Brown, A. M. B. 2001. Cities for the urban poor in Zimbabwe: urban space as a resource for sustainable development. Development in Practice 11(2/3), pp. 263-282. (10.1080/09614520120056432)
Articles
- Garcia Amado, P., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2024. Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city. Environment and Urbanization 36(2), pp. 340-357. (10.1177/09562478241277070)
- Brown, A., Mackie, P., Garcia Amado, P., Barratt, S. and Krisiunaite, A. 2024. Urban protracted displacement and displacement economies. Environment and Urbanization 36(2), pp. 278-299. (10.1177/09562478241277087)
- Brown, A., Mackie, P. and García Amado, P. 2024. The displacement economies framework. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (10.1080/15562948.2024.2379380)
- Smith, T. A., Brown, A. and Owen, J. 2024. Scaling low-income housing delivery in Kenya and the Philippines: community participation and livelihoods outcomes. International Development Planning Review 46(2), pp. 107-121. (10.3828/idpr.2024.3)
- Esayas Dube, E. and Brown, A. 2024. ‘Normalizing informality’ in local–transnational spaces: Contraband, conflict and street trade in Eastern Ethiopia. Journal of Asian and African Studies (10.1177/00219096241230495)
- Brown, A., Charkrabati, B., MacKie, P., Fuller, C., Bhattacharya, R., Bagchi, S. and Chakrabarti, D. 2024. Contested spaces of exchange: Informal cross-border trade on the India-Bangladesh border.. Forum for Development Studies 51(1), pp. 121-143. (10.1080/08039410.2023.2255211)
- MacKie, P., Brown, A. M. B., Mehmood, A. and Ahmed, S. 2022. Multi-dimensional conflict and the resilient urban informal economy in Karachi, Pakistan. International Development Planning Review 44(2), pp. 169-189.
- Smith, T. and Brown, A. 2019. Community-led housing and urban livelihoods: measuring employment in low-income housing delivery. Habitat International 94, article number: 102061. (10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102061)
- Omoegun, A. O., MacKie, P. and Brown, A. 2019. The aftermath of eviction in the Nigerian informal economy. International Development Planning Review 41(1), pp. 107-128. (10.3828/idpr.2018.30)
- Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2018. Politics and street trading in Africa: Developing a comparative frame.. Articulo: Journal of Urban Research 2018(17-18) (10.4000/articulo.3612)
- MacKie, P., Brown, A., Dickenson, K., Ahmed Hassan, S. and Barawani, M. A. M. 2017. Informal economies, conflict recovery and absent aid. Environment and Urbanization 29(2), pp. 365-382. (10.1177/0956247817719868)
- Brown, A., Kafafy, N. and Hayder, A. 2017. Street trading in the shadows of the Arab Spring. Environment and Urbanization 29(1), pp. 283-298. (10.1177/0956247816673559)
- Brown, A. M. B. and Ahmed, S. 2017. Local government dissolution in Karachi: chasm or catalyst?. Third World Thematics 1(6), pp. 879-897. (10.1080/23802014.2016.1315318)
- Brown, A. 2015. Claiming the streets: property rights and legal empowerment in the urban informal economy. World Development 76, pp. 238-248. (10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.07.001)
- Brown, A., Msoka, C. and Dankoco, I. 2015. A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy?. Urban Studies 52(12), pp. 2234-2249. (10.1177/0042098014544758)
- MacKie, P., Bromley, R. D. F. and Brown, A. 2014. Informal traders and the battlegrounds of revanchism in Cusco, Peru. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(5), pp. 1884-1903. (10.1111/1468-2427.12161)
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Msoka, C. 2014. Do micro enterprises benefit from the 'doing business' reforms? the case of street-vending in Tanzania. Urban Studies 51(8), pp. 1593-1612. (10.1177/0042098013497412)
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Li, Z. 2013. The China–Africa value chain: Can Africa’s small-scale entrepreneurs engage successfully in global trade?. African Studies Review 56(3), pp. 77-100. (10.1017/asr.2013.80)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2013. The right to the city: Road to Rio 2010. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37(3), pp. 957-971. (10.1111/1468-2427.12051)
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Msoka, C. 2012. (Why) have pro-poor policies failed Africa's working poor?. Journal of International Development 24(8), pp. 1008-1029. (10.1002/jid.2876)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2012. China's 'Chocolate City': an ethnic enclave in a changing landscape. African Diaspora 5(1), pp. 51-72.
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Li, Z. 2012. In the Dragon's Den: African Traders in Guangzhou. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38(5), pp. 869-888. (10.1080/1369183X.2012.668030)
- Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2010. Has mercantilism reduced urban poverty in SSA? Perception of boom, bust, and the China-Africa trade in Lomé and Bamako. World Development 38(5), pp. 771-782. (10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.009)
- Brown, A. M. B., Lyons, M. and Dankoco, I. 2010. Street traders and the emerging spaces for urban voice and citizenship in African cities. Urban Studies 47(3), pp. 666-683. (10.1177/0042098009351187)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2010. Requiem for stability: impact of the global financial crisis on the world's working poor. International Planning Studies 15(3), pp. 175-189. (10.1080/13563475.2010.509472)
- Li, Z., Xue, D., Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2008. The African Enclave of Guangzhou: A Case Study of Xiaobeilu. Acta Geographica Sinica 63(2), pp. 208-218.
- Lyons, M., Brown, A. M. B. and Li, Z. 2008. The 'third tier' of globalization. City 12(2), pp. 196-206. (10.1080/13604810802167036)
- Brown, A. M. B. 2001. Cities for the urban poor in Zimbabwe: urban space as a resource for sustainable development. Development in Practice 11(2/3), pp. 263-282. (10.1080/09614520120056432)
Book sections
- Ahmed, S. U. D., Mehmood, A. and Brown, A. 2020. Informal power structures: towards provision of services and security of tenure. In: Van den Broeck, P. et al. eds. Communities, Land and Social Innovation: Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 195-213.
- MacKie, P., Swanson, K. and Goode, R. 2017. Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America. In: Brown, A. M. B. ed. Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Routledge, pp. 63-76.
- Brown, A. M. B. and MacKie, P. 2017. Urban informality and 'rebel streets'. In: Brown, A. M. B. ed. Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Routledge, pp. 1-16.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2013. Municipal partnerships for prosperity: empowering the working poor in local economic development. In: Sansom, G. and McKinley, P. eds. New Century Local Government: Commonwealth Perspectives. Commonwealth Secretariat, pp. 129-144.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2010. Seen but not heard: urban voice and citizenship for street traders. In: Lindell, I. ed. Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transitional Organizing in Urban Africa. London: Zed Books, pp. 33-45.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2009. Rights to the city for street traders and informal workers. In: Jouve, B. and Taylor, P. eds. Urban Policies and the Right to the City. Citurb: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, pp. 137-155.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2008. Evaluating the contribution of urban public space to quality of life: experience from the developed and developing world. In: Zoppi, C. ed. Governance, Pianificazione e Valutazione Strategica: Sviluppo sostenibile e governance nella pianificazione urbanistica. Rome: Gangemi Editore, pp. 49-64.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lloyd-Jones, T. 2002. Spatial planning, access and infrastructure. In: Rakodi, C. I. and Lloyd-Jones, T. eds. Urban Livelihoods: A People-Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty. London: Earthscan, pp. 188-204.
Books
- Brown, A. M. B. ed. 2017. Rebel streets and the informal economy: Street trade and the law. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City. Routledge.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2010. Taking Forward the Right to the City. Report on e-Debate 1. UN-Habitat.
- Brown, A. M. B. 2006. Contested space: street trading, public space, and livelihoods in developing cities. Urban Management Series. Rugby: ITDG Publishing.
Conferences
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2009. After the fall: can informality signpost a new world order?. Presented at: Development Studies Association Annual Conference: Current Crises and New Opportunities, University of Ulster.
- Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2009. Multiple reform agendas and the African street: An emerging legal pluralism?. Presented at: 11th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Kingston University, London.
- Lyons, M. and Brown, A. M. B. 2009. Has mercantilism reduced urban poverty in the SSA?: Boom and bust in the China - Africa trade in Lome and Bamako. Presented at: 11th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, Kingston University, London.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2009. Rise of the phoenix? The global recession and the urban informal economy. Presented at: Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Ulster, Northern Ireland.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Lyons, M. 2009. Braving the Dragon's Den: African traders in Guangzhou 2005-2008. Presented at: CCIG/IKD Asian Mobilities Workshop, Open University, Milton Keynes.
Monographs
- Lewis, D., Kebede, G., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2020. Urban crises and the informal economy: surviving, managing, thriving in post-conflict cities. UNHabitat. Available at: https://www.alnap.org/help-library/urban-crises-and-the-informal-economy-surviving-managing-thriving-in-post-conflict
- Lewis, D., Kebede, G., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2019. Urban crises and the informal economy: surviving, managing, thriving in post-conflict cities.. Cardiff University.
- Martinez, L., Brown, A. and Mackie, P. 2019. Local economic development, micro-enterprise and crime reduction: lessons from Cali, Colombia. UNHabitat. Available at: https://unhabitat.org/local-economic-development-micro-enterprise-and-crime-reduction-lessons-from-cali-colombia
- Smith, T. A., Brown, A. and Owen, J. 2019. Employment generation from affordable housing: Outcomes of Reall-funded CLIFF projects in Kenya and the Philippines.. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University School and Geography.
- Brown, A. M. B. and Roever, S. 2017. Enhancing productivity in the urban informal economy. Project Report. [Online]. Nairobi: UN-Habitat. Available at: https://unhabitat.org/books/enhancing-productivity-in-the-urban-informal-economy/
- Brown, A. M. B. and Kristiansen, A. 2008. Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, responsibilities and citizenship. Project Report. [Online]. Paris: UNESCO, UN-Habitat. Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001780/178090e.pdf
Research
Interests
Planning practice in emerging cities, spatial planning, the management of informal economies, particularly street and market trade, and the impacts of globalisation on the informal economy. Recent research and academic projects on public space and urban livelihoods, the impact of the China-Africa trade on urban markets, and the right to the city.
Projects
Inclusive Growth: Improving Microfinance Regulation to Support Growth and Innovation in Micro-enterprise, ESRC/DFID Award ES/J009369/1 ESRC.
Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights and Regulation for Street Traders in the 21st Century, ESRC/DFID Award RES-167-25-0591.
rscw4africa - Wales for Africa Initiative: Strategy and Action Plan (Regeneration Skills Collective, Wales).
Making a Living in the Street: Public Space as an Asset for Sustainable Livelihoods, DFID, Committee for Social Science Research responsive research project. Principal Investigator case studies: Nepal, Ghana, Lesotho, and Tanzania.
Scoping Study for the UK-China Sustainable Development Dialogue (DFID, Defra, DCLG and WSP International).
Completion Notices (S94 of Town & County Planning Act, 1991) (Department of the Environment, Transport & the Regions).
Biography
Alison Brown is a professional town planner, trained at the Universities of Nottingham and Liverpool. She worked in London for Westminster City Council, Newham Council and the Town & Country Planning Association, before working as a consultant in Oman, Qatar and Jordan. She returned to the UK to set up a professional planning practice. Since joining Cardiff University, she has developed research expertise in urban development challenges in the developed and developing world.
Professional memberships
- Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura,
- Università delgi Studi di Cagliari, Keynote speech INPUT 2012 Conference,
- Trustee, Homeless International
- Visiting Professor: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura, Università degli studi di Cagliari, funded by the Regional Government of Sardinia. (2010)
- Steering Group Member: UN-HABITAT's World Urban Campaign.
- Expert: UNESCO project on Social and Spatial Inclusion of Migrants in the City.
- Consultant: UN-HABITAT/UNESCO project on Urban Policies and the Right to the City : Rights, responsibilities and citizenship.
- Planning Advisor Inclusive Cities Project, (WIEGO) Women in Informal Employment.
- Planning Advisor, Technology, Infrastructure and Urban Planning Resource Centre (TI-UP),Department for International Development with WSP International.
- Sustainable communities. Department for International Development. Coodinator of DFID-funded Higher Education link, Universidad del Biobio, Concepciòn, and Municipalidad de Concepciòn, Chile, and Cardiff University, (2002 - 2007).
- Diploma in 'Habitation & Development' Universidad del Biobio. Lectures on sustainable development, (2001).
- Responsive Urban Design, Department for International Development. Professional practice workshop in Harare. Establishing national CPD programme, (1999).
- Urban Design in the African City. Department for International Development. Coodinator of DFID-funded Higher Education link, Department of Rural & Urban Planning, University of Zimbabwe, and Cardiff University, (1997 - 2001).
- Planning advice, Ordnance Survey International. Advice on DFID-funded consultancy in Lesotho, (1997 - 1998).
- Practical Planning Skills, Overseas Development Administration. Running training course for all professional planners in the Federal Department of Physical Planning, Ministry of Interior in Maseru, Lesotho, (1996).
- Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute's Development Planning Advisory Panel (1998 - 2004).
- Trustee: Ruskin Mill Further Education Trust, Special Needs Educational Charity with over 100 employees (2003 - date).
Contact Details
BrownAM@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 76519
Glamorgan Building, Room Room 2.70, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
+44 29208 76519
Glamorgan Building, Room Room 2.70, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA