Patsy Healey

Patsy Healey
Born	January 1, 1940 (1940-01-01) (age 72) Loughborough, England
Nationality	British
Fields	Urban planning and Governance
Institutions	Newcastle University

Patsy Healey (born 1 January 1940) is a British urban planner. She is professor emeritus at Global Urban Research Unit in the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape], at Newcastle University. She is a specialist in planning theory and practice, with a particular focus on strategic spatial planning for city regions and in urban regeneration policies. She is Senior Editor of Planning Theory and Practice journal, jointly published by TandF and the RTPI.

1 Research interests
2 Honours
3 Memberships
4 Publications
5 See also
6 External links

Research interests

She has undertaken research on the preparation and implementation of development plan frameworks, on how planning strategies work out in practice and on partnership forms of governance at the neighbourhood, city and city region scales. Over the years, she has developed approaches to collaborative planning practices, linked to an institutionalist analysis of urban socio-spatial dynamics and urban governance, with books on urban governance and on strategic spatial planning in Europe.

Honours

In July 2009, she was awarded Ordinary Fellowship from the British Academy for distinction in Urban planning theory and practice.
In October 2006, she received Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) Gold Medal Award on outstanding achievement in the field of town and country planning. The first woman ever to receive the award in its 53 year history.
In June 2006, she was made a Fellow of University College, London.
In 2004, she was recognised as an Honorary Member, by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), only the second such honour to be awarded.
In 1999, she was awarded an OBE for services to planning

Memberships

Founding Member of Planning and Honorary Member since 2004.
In UK, member of the ODPM/DCLG Planning Research Network, the Planning Aid Council, the RTPI’s Knowledge and Research Committee.
Has been member of the ICES-KIS Panel in the Netherlands in 2003
Since 2004, she has been an adviser to the ODPM/DCLG’s Evaluation Study of the new Local Development Frameworks, (now called Spatial Planning in Practice)
Member of advisory panel for the ODPM on the evaluation of the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programme.
On the Advisory Board of SITI, in Turin, Italy, and of CITTA, in the University of Porto, Portugal.

Publications

Books

Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: a relational planning for our times, Routledge, London, 2006. ISBN 0-415-38034-0 (hardcover) and ISBN 0-415-38035-9 (paperback) (On experiences of strategic spatial planning in city regions, with indepth case studies in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands).

Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 1-4039-4920-4

Journal articles

Relational Complexity and the imaginative power of strategic spatial planning, European Planning Studies, 2006, Vol 14 (4), pp 525–246
Transforming governance: challenges of institutional adaptation and a new politics of space, European Planning Studies, 2006, Vol 14 (3), pp. 299-319

Book chapters

Territory, integration and spatial planning, in Tewdwr-Jones, M and Allmendinger P, Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning: spatial governance in a fragmented nation, 2006, London, Routledge, pp. 64-79

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Name	Healey, Patsy
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Date of birth	1940-01-01
Place of birth	Loughborough, England
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