My research focuses on adaptation and investment in the built environment and has evolved along three strands:

1) Strategic Public Sector Finance – where I investigate how land value and real estate income (for example, property tax, land value capture and commercial real estate Investment) is being used to fund public sector service delivery and policy objectives. Particular interests relate to transport infrastrcuture and also flood management. 

2) Stranded Assets in the Built Environment – where I investigate how new demand and legislative drivers are stranding property assets and how this threat can be countered through methods of urban adaptation and building based adaptive reuse. This research currently focuses on: a) developing holistic understandings of climate related stranded assets that combine physical assets and also financial cashflows and b) developing better conceptual understandings of building vacancy and how this can be countered through new perspectives of urban planning that enable the contemporary demand for building adaptation.

3) Knowledge Management – inspired by the writing of Michael Polanyi, where I investigate the generation, dynamics, and transference of tacit knowledge in the face of new modes of learning, teaching and working in the digital built environment.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears (Italo Calvino, 1972).

I am an Associate Professor in Urban and Built Environment Adaptation and Investment in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Northumbria University. My research focuses on adaptation and investment in the built environment and has evolved along three strands:

1) Strategic Public Sector Finance – where I investigate how land value and real estate income (for example, property tax, land value capture and commercial real estate Investment) is being used to fund public sector service delivery and policy objectives. Particular interests relate to transport infrastrcuture and also flood management. 

2) Stranded Assets in the Built Environment – where I investigate how new demand and legislative drivers are stranding property assets and how this threat can be countered through methods of urban adaptation and building based adaptive reuse. This research currently focuses on: a) developing holistic understandings of climate related stranded assets that combine physical assets and also financial cashflows and b) developing better conceptual understandings of building vacancy and how this can be countered through new perspectives of urban planning that enable the contemporary demand for building adaptation.

3) Knowledge Management – inspired by the writing of Michael Polanyi, where I investigate the generation, dynamics, and transference of tacit knowledge in the face of new modes of learning, teaching and working in the digital built environment.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears (Italo Calvino, 1972).