Research Profile
Ms Alison Brown
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76519
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74845
Address:Room 2.85, Glamorgan Building
Qualifications
Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI).
Master of Civic Design, Liverpool University.
Diploma of Transport Design, Liverpool University.
BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Nottingham University.
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.
Selected Projects
Selected Publications
- Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship
- Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space and Livelihoods in Developing Cities
- Street-traders and the Emerging Spaces for Urban Citizenship and Voice in African Cities
- The Third Tier of Globalization: African Traders in Guangzhou
Additional Information
Alison Brown is a Reader (part-time) at the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University. She is Course Director for the MSc in International Planning and Development, and has extensive professional experience in the international and UK fields. Her areas of expertise include planning practice, international planning in emerging economies, and the informal economy. She has overseas experience in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and current projects include comparative research on poverty reduction in low income cities, and work for local authorities, NGOs and private clients in the UK.
She is a member of the steering committee of UN-HABITAT’s World Urban Campaign. She is the urban planning advisor on DFID's Technology, Infrastructure and Urban Planning Resource Centre, managed by WSP International. She is a consultant to the UNESCO/UN-HABITAT project on Urban Policies and the Right to the City, a member of the UNESCO expert team for the project on Migrants in the City, and planning advisor to WIEGO on their Inclusive Cities Project.