Graeme Evans

Director, Cities Institute

+44 (0)207 7133 5033

g.evans@londonmet.ac.uk

			Director, Cities Institute +44 (0)207 7133 5033 g.evans@londonmet.ac.uk

Research Interests and Expertise

Creative industries & Cultural planning
Local economic development
Urban policy and regeneration
Urban design & sustainable development
Cultural tourism and urban heritage
Comparative cities and regional studies

Graeme Evans career started in project & financial management in international energy, transport and travel industries followed by directorship of a community regeneration and arts development charity in inner city London, Liverpool and Huddersfield. Prior to rejoining LondonMet as founding director of the Cities Institute, he was Dean of Research at Central St Martins (University of the Arts London) and during the 1990s he was director of the Centre for Leisure & Tourism Studies at UNL. He is a leading author on urban culture and planning, arts & cultural industries and policy, and economic development. Research interests include cultural economics, urban design and city planning, urban amenity and quality of life, urban policy and regeneration and cultural tourism, as well as comparative cities & globalisation and American studies (Canada, USA, Mexico).

Current/recent projects and awards

2003-8 VivaCity: Design and Decision-Making Tools for the 24 Hour City, EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment Programme (with UCL, Salford, Sheffield Hallam & 30 partners). (with Rosita Aiesha, Jo Foord)
2007-8 Cultural Planning Toolkit, HM Treasury, DCMS, DCLG and housing growth regions in Thames Gateway, S. & W, Midlands [with EDAW plc and PMP]
2003-9 Accessibility and User Needs in Transport (AUNT-SUE) - PI, EPSRC SUE Programme (with UCL, Loughborough universities; L.B.Camden, Herts,C.C., Transport for London, DLR) with Steve Shaw, Juliet Solomon, Nastaran Azmin-Fouladi, Antje Witting, Claire Ellul and Ben Calnan
2005-7 Creative Spaces, Strategies for Creative Cities. International comparative study of creative industries strategies and good practice. LDA (Creative London) and Metro Toronto/Ontario Province
2004 Kings Cross-Finsbury Park Priority Programme, Research Resource/Database, London Development Agency (with Jo Foord, Jane Lewis, Shannon Kelley)
2004-8 Sustainable Cities, Canadian Sustained Studies Programme, Foundation for Canadian Studies, 2001-4, [with Jo Foord, Steve Shaw]. Follow-on to 2001-4 study
2003-4 A Review of Evidence on the Role of Culture in Regeneration. Department for Culture Media and Sport, [with Phyllida Shaw]; Update for IFACCA/Arts Research Digest (2006)

Publications

Journal articles

2008 'Cultural mapping and Sustainable Communities: Planning for the Arts revisited', Cultural Trends 16(5)
2007 ‘Dogu Londra’da yerlseim kulturleri’ (‘Cultures and Settlement’), Istanbul Journal of Urban Culture (with Jo Foord), 60: 58-61
2006 ‘Rich mix cities: from multicultural experience to cosmopolitan engagement’ Ethnologia Europaea: Journal of European Ethnology (with Jo Foord), 34(2): 71-84
2005 ‘Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture’s Contribution to Regeneration’, Urban Studies 42 (5/6): 959-984
2005 ‘Mixed-Use or Mixed Messages?, Planning in London, No.54, July: 26-29
2005 ‘Mundo Maya: From Cancún to City of Culture - World Heritage in post-colonial Mesoamerica’, Current Issues in Tourism 7(4/5): 35-49
2005 ‘Urban Sustainability and Mixed-Use Design’, Planning in London, No.52, January
2003 Mundo Maya: From Cancún to City of Culture - World Heritage in post-colonial Mesoamerica, Current Issues in Tourism (special Politics of World Heritage issue,) 7 (4/5): 315-329
2003 Hard Branding the Culture City - From Prado to Prada, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(2): 417-440
2003 Whose heritage is it anyway? Reconciling the ‘national’ and the ‘universal’ in Québec City, British Journal of Canadian Studies 16(2): 333-347
2002 Living in a World Heritage City: stakeholders in the dialectic of the Universal and the Particular, International Journal of Heritage Studies 8(2): 117-135
2001 Urban Leisure and Transport: Regeneration Effects (with Steve Shaw) Journal of Leisure Property 1/4: 350-372
2001 The World Bank & World Heritage: Culture and Sustainable Development? Tourism Recreation Research 26(3): 83-86
2001 ICT Development and Small Enterprises in Europe (with Janet Bohrer & Greg Richards) Anatolia, 11(1): 22-40
2001 Small is Beautiful? - ICT and SMTEs, a European Comparative (with Janet Bohrer & Greg Richards - externals) Information Technology & Tourism, 2 (3/4): 1-15
2001 UK Lottery and the Arts - The First Seven Years’, CIRCULAR No.14. Paris: 21-7, translated into French and Spanish

Books

2008 Urban Sustainability decision-making tools and resources for design. Co-editor. with R.Cooper et al. Blackwells (forthcoming)
2001 Cultural Planning: An Urban Renaissance?. London, Routledge, pp.335

Book chapters

2008 ‘Mixed-Use and Urban Sustainability: Mixed Messages?’, (with Jo Foord). In: Urban Sustainability decision-making tools and resources for design. Blackwells
2007 ‘The generation of diversity: mixed use and urban sustainability’ (with J.Foord). In: Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design. Approaches to time-people-place responsive urban spaces. London, Routledge: 95-101
2007 ‘London2012: Regeneration Games’. In: Gold, J. & M. (eds) Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World’s Games, 1896-2012 present day. London, Routledge: 298-317
2007 ‘Tourism, Creativity and the City’. In: Richards, G. and Wilson, J. (eds) Tourism Creativity & Development, Routledge: 57-72
2007 ‘Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture’s Contribution to Regeneration’. In: Paddison, R. & Miles, S. Culture-led Regeneration. London, Routledge
2006 ‘Hard Branding the City: From Prado to Prada’. In: Oswalt, P. (ed.) Shrinking Cities, The Complete Works 2, Interventions, Aachen: Archplusverlag (CD, DVD): 48-76
2006 ‘The Generation of Diversity: Rich Mix and Mixed-Use in the City Fringe’ (with Rosita Aiesha). In: Smith, M. (ed.) Tourism, Culture and Regeneration. London, CAB International: 35-48
2006 ‘Branding the City of Culture: the Death of City Planning?’. In: Monclus, J. and Guardia, M. (eds) Culture, Urbanism and Planning, Aldershot, Ashgate: 197-214
2006 ‘Small Cities for a Small Planet: Sustaining the Urban Renaissance?’ (with Jo Foord). In: Bell, T. and Jayne, M. (eds) Small cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis. London, Routledge: 151-168
2005 ‘Mundo Maya: From Cancún to City of Culture - World Heritage in post-colonial Mesoamerica’. In: Harrison, D. (ed) The Politics of World Heritage. Negotiating Tourism and Conservation. Bristol, Channel View: 35-49
2005 ‘ICT and Rural Tourism Enterprises: a Case of Aragon, Spain’. In: Hall, D. and Mitchell, M. (eds) Rural Tourism and Sustainable Business. Bristol, Channel View
2004 Cultural Industry Quarters - from pre-industrial to post-industrial production. In Bell, D. and Jayne, M., City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City. Aldershot, Ashgate Press: 71-92
2004 ‘Country Profiles: United Kingdom’’. In: Bodo, C., Gordon, C., Ilczuk, D. (eds) Gambling on Culture. State lotteries as a source of funding for culture - the Arts and Heritage. CIRCLE/Associazione per L’Economica della Cultura/Boekmanstudies, Amsterdam: 131-136
2003 Cultural Planning in East London (with Jo Foord). In Kirkham, N. and Miles, M. (eds.) Cultures & Settlement.Advances in Art & Urban Futures Vol.3. Bristol, Intellect Books: 15-30
2002 The Role of Urban Transport in Regional Development and Regeneration (with Steve Shaw). In Andrews, N. et al.. Tourism Destination Planning. Dublin Institute of Technology: 293-310
2002 Shaping the Cultural Landscape: Local Regeneration Effects (with Jo Foord). In Miles, M. and Hall, T. (eds.) Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City. London, Routledge: 167-181

Reports

2008 Culture Infrastructure Study, North Northants D.C., with EDAW
2008 Deptford & Lewisham Creative Hub Mapping and Cluster Study, Creative Lewisham, with Jo Foord
2007 Cultural Planning Toolkit: Review of Resources: Guidance, Toolkits and Data. EDAW. pp.80 with Foord, J., Shaw, P. and Curson, T.
2006 Creative Spaces: Strategies for Creative Cities: Lessons Learned. LDA/City of Toronto/Ontario Province. with Gertler, M. et al.
2006 Creative City Case Study: Berlin., LDA/Ontario/City of Toronto. with Antje Witting
2006 Creative City Case Study: Barcelona., LDA/Ontario/City of Toronto.
2006 Creative City Case Study: London. LDA/Ontario/City of Toronto.
2005 Creative Spaces - Strategies for Creative Industries: Phase I Scoping Study. LDA / City of Toronto.
2001 A Review of Evidence on the Role of Culture in Regeneration (with Phyllida Shaw). Department for Culture Media and Sport, pp.80 (available on: www.culture.gov.uk
2001 Islington Local Cultural Strategy - Audit and Mapping Report. L.B.Islington Arts & Libraries, pp.23
2001 Study into the Social Impact of Lottery Good Cause Spending (with Phyllida Shaw). Department for Culture Media and Sport, pp.115

Advisory/Peer Esteem

2008 OECD Metropolitan Review Expert panel (Copenhagen City/Oresund Region)
2007 World Leadership Forum, Town Planning Award Panel
2007- Creative Industries Observatory Advisory BoardResearch
2006- LDA Global Expert on Economic Development
2004- ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC Peer Review Colleges
2003- Office for Science & Technology (DTI/BERR), Science Review Panel
2001- Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment (CABE) Enabler & Design Quality Facilitator

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