Gwyn Williams

Professor Williams has been an academic at Manchester University for over three decades, with the focus of his research and teaching interests over the past decade being on urban regeneration, strategic planning, programme and project management, and housing policy. His main management activities have focused on postgraduate planning and on urban regeneration programmes, and on the management of doctoral students. He was also Head of School of Planning and Landscape (1998-2000)

• 1970-72. Lecturer in Geography, Newcastle University
• 1972-98. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Town Planning, Manchester University
• 1999-06. Professor of Urban Planning and Development, Manchester University

He is currently preparing research for publications on topics relating to urban competitiveness, mixed tenure communities, and on housing market renewal strategies, but has also published in recent years a range of research work on urban regeneration and on strategic planning.

(2006) 'Strategic Planning and Regional Development in North West England', (with M Baker) in H. Dimitrou & R. Thompson ed. Strategic and Regional Planning in the UK, Routledge, London

(2006) 'Collaborative Partnerships and Urban Change Management: The Renewal of Manchester City Centre', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 26,5/6

(2005) 'Spatial Implications of the North West Housing Renewal Pathfinder Programme', North West Regional Assembly, Wigan

(2005) 'Reinforcing Commercial Competitiveness through City Centre Renewal', (with S.Batho) in D.Adams, C.Watkins & M.White ed. Planning, Public Policy and Property Markets, Blackwell, Oxford 209-236

(2003) 'Enterprising City Centres: Manchester's Development Challenge', Spon Press, London, pp334

(2002) 'City Building: Developing Manchester's Urban Core', in J Peck & K.Ward eds. City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester, Manchester University Press, 155-175

(2001) 'Planning and Crime Prevention', DTLR

(2000) 'Responding to Urban Crisis: The Emergency Planning Response to the Bombing of Manchester City Centre', Cities 17, 4, 293-304 (with S. Batho & L.Russell)

(2000) 'Rebuilding the Entrepreneurial City:The Master Planning Response to the Bombing of Manchester City Centre', Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 27, 485-505

(1999) 'Metropolitan Planning in Britain: a Comparative Review', Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, pp288, (with P.Roberts & K.Thomas)

(1999) 'Institutional Governance and Strategic Planning: Reviewing Experience in Manchester', Melbourne and Toronto, Progress in Planning, Elsevier, 52, 1, pp100

(1998) 'City Vision and Strategic Regeneration: The Case of City Pride', in N.Oatley ed. Cities, Economic Competition and Urban Policy, Paul Chapman Publishing, London, 163-180