Dr Nick Green

Professional Qualifications & Positions

Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Town & Country Planning Association Policy Council

RTPI UK Spatial Development Framework Steeering Group.

Professional Experience

2005 - date, Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology (CURE), University of Manchester, Research Associate.

2004-, Nick Green Urban Research & Consultancy.

2000-2004, Institute of Community Studies, Research Fellow.

2003-2007, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, College Teacher.

1999-2000, Town & Country Planning Association, Policy & Projects Officer.

1988-1993, Donald Insall Associates, Architects, Surveyor.

1983-1984, Ian Howard Surveyors, Assistant Surveyor.

Regional Planning and Analysis; Network Theory and Analysis; Cartography and Visualisation of Regional Dynamics; Complexity Theory

2003-2007, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, College Teacher.

2nd Year BSc: Planning Project Module (Strategic Planning).

3rd Year BSc: Urban Politics Module.

3rd Year BSc: Research Methods Module & Dissertation Supervision.

One-Day Seminars on MSc Dissertation Preparation.

2007 'City-States and the Spatial In-between', Town & Country Planning, 76(12).

2007 'What if… Sprawl maps for unrestrained London', Town & Country Planning, 76(6/7), pp.193-195.

2007 'Functional Polycentricity: A definition in terms of social network analysis', Urban Studies , 44(11), pp. 2077-2103, November Glasgow: Carfax.

2006 (with Peter Hall & Kathy Pain) 'Anatomy of the Polycentric Metropolis: Eight Mega-City regions in Overview', in Hall, P. & Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: learning from mega-city regions in Europe, London, Earthscan Publications.

2006 (with Peter Hall & Kathy Pain) 'The Informational Geography of Europolis: Mapping the Flow of Information', in Hall, P. & Pain, K. (eds.) The Polycentric Metropolis: learning from mega-city regions in Europe, London, Earthscan Publications.

2005 'Did Mumford Misunderstand Mendel? Planning History , 27(3), pp. 2-3.

2005 'Songs from the Wood and Sounds of the Suburbs: a folk, rock and punk portrait of England', in Built Environment, November 2005

2005 'Towards a definition of polycentricity in terms of network theory, and the visualisation of polycentricity using a GIS', presented at the CUPUM '05 (Computers in Urban Planning & Urban Management) Conference, London, England.

2005 'Going the Distance', in New Scientist, 19th February 2005, London, Reed Business Information Ltd. (with Marshall S.).

2004 'Your PhD Companion', Oxford, How To Books (with Stephen Marshall).

2004 'One person households as exemplars of late modernity', ICS Working Paper No. 7, London, Institute of Community Studies

2003 'The Ringo Factor: Towards a theory of emergence in small social networks', ICS Working Paper No. 2, London, Institute of Community Studies.

2000 'Bricks versus Clicks: planning for the digital economy', in Wilsdon, J. (ed.) Digital Futures, London, Earthscan Publications (with Andrew Gillespie & Simon Marvin).

1999 'Artists and Complexity in East London', in Complexity, Vol.4 No.6, pp.14-21, New York, John Wiley/Santa Fe Institute.

1999 'Artists in the East End: Origins 1968 ­ 1980', in Rising East, Vol.3, No.2, pp.20-37, Norwich, Lawrence and Wishart/University of East London.

1995 (ed.) 'The Contribution of Public Policies to Innovation in the High-Technology Industry Sector in Hertfordshire', Working Paper 13, London, Bartlett School of Planning, UC.

Projects

PLUREL
Project Leader: University of Copenhagen.
Development of Agent-based Models of Greater Manchester Region.

One Planet Economy
Project Leader: WWF.
Preparation of UK Eco-footprint maps for final report.

INSURE (2005-6)
Project Leader: Tau Consultancy, Madrid.

Research Assistant.

Commission on the Future of England (2005)
Project Leader: Town & Country Planning Association.
Client: Town & Country Planning Association
Literature Review, Administration & Press Liaison.

Developing a Methodology to Capture Land Value Uplift around Transport Facilities (2004)
Project Leader: GVA Grimley.
Client: Scottish Executive.
Literature review and Review of Case Studies.

PolyNet (2003/4)
Project Leader: Institute of Community Studies.
Client/Funded by: North West Europe InterReg IIIB Programme & UK ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).
Analysis of Commuting Networks in SE England; co-ordination of project phase one.

Jubilee Line Extension Literature Review (2003)
Project Leader: Professor David Banister.
Client: ATIS Real Weatheralls.
Review of literature on previous research into land value uplift.

Madrid in the International Context (2002)
Project Leader: Professor Sir Peter Hall.
Graphic design of final reports in Spanish and English.

Going It Alone: Portraits of Ten One-Person Households (2001/2)
Research Funded by: Institute of Community Studies.
Pilot study analysing the societal contexts of ten one-person households.

Delivering Affordable Housing through Planning Policy (2000)
Project Leaders: ENTEC, Three Dragons, Nottingham Trent University.
Client: DTLR.
Organisation of focus groups of industry experts.

DANTE - Designs to Avoid the Need to Travel in Europe (1998)
Research Coordinator: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
Client: European Commission - DG7 - Transport RTD Programme - 4th Framework Programme.
Graphic design of Good Practice Guide.

Four World Cities (1995)
Project Leader: Llewelyn Davies Planning.
Client: Government Office for London.
Research on cultural industries in London, Paris, New York & Tokyo.