Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice

A Reflection on Research, Theory, Evidence-based Practice, and Quality Improvement

Urban Design between Theory and Practice

COPYRIGHT NOTE This paper may be cited or quoted in line with the usual academic conventions. It must not be used for commercial purposes or gain in any way, or published without the author's explicit permission. ABSTRACT This paper summarizes and concludes a part of my PhD-project, Vision, Plan and Reality, which is currently in the phase of completion. The paper is organized into four parts. ...

Obesogenic urban form: theory, policy and practice.

There is a growing body of research, which suggests that many contemporary urban environments do not support healthy lifestyle choices and are implicated in the obesity pandemic. This paper reviews the evidence from this field in relation to theory, policy and practice, from three different disciplinary perspectives: urban design, geography and public health nutrition. In the UK, our developmen...

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

Co-Training and Expansion: Towards Bridging Theory and Practice

Co-training is a method for combining labeled and unlabeled data when examples can be thought of as containing two distinct sets of features. It has had a number of practical successes, yet previous theoretical analyses have needed very strong assumptions on the data that are unlikely to be satisfied in practice. In this paper, we propose a much weaker “expansion” assumption on the underlying d...