London Metropolitan University Research Institutes
 

Graeme Evans




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 central government (Home Office) followed by project & financial management executive posts in international energy, transport and travel industries having qualified as a Certified Accountant (FCCA) in 1978. From the early 1980s he was a director of a large community regeneration and arts development charity and resource centre in north London, with training centres in Liverpool and Huddersfield. He holds a PhD and MA from City University. He joined PNL in 1988 as Senior Lecturer in Economics & Finance (Business School) and was director of the Centre for Leisure & Tourism Studies (CELTS) from 1995, and appointed Reader, then Professor in 1997. Prior to rejoining LondonMet as founding director of the Cities Institute in 2003, he was Dean of Research at Central St Martins (University of the Arts London) from 2001. 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

  • 2009-13 SECOA: Solutions for Environmental Contrasts in Coastal Areas, EU FP7. Study into the effects of growth and climate change in urban coastal cities, UK case studies – Thames Gateway and Portsmouth. EU partners in Rome, Gothenburg, Brussels, Lisbon, Tel Aviv and in India & Vietnam
  • 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

  • 2010 'New Events in Historic Venues: A Case of London' Rivista di Scienze del Turismo, 2, 149-166
  • 2010(forthcoming)'London 2012' in R & M Gold (EDS) (2010) Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World Games 1896-2012,
  • 2009 ‘Accessibility, Urban Design and the Whole Journey Environment’, Built
    Environment    , 35(3): 366-385
  • 2009 'Creative Cities, Creative Spaces and Urban Policy', Urban Studies, 46(5&6): 1003-1040
  • 2008 'Cultural mapping and Sustainable Communities: Planning for the
    Arts revisited'    , Cultural Trends 17(2) 65-96
  • 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 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
  • 2000 Measure for Measure: Evaluating Performance and the Arts Organisation, Studies in Cultures, Organisations and Societies, 6: 243-266
  • 2000 ‘Planning for Urban Tourism: A critique of Unitary Development Plans and Tourism Policy in London’ International Journal of Tourism Research 2(4): 1-20
  • 1999 ‘The Economics of the National Performing Arts - Exploiting Consumer Surplus and Willingness-to-Pay: A Case of Cultural Policy Failure?’ Leisure Studies 18(2): 97-118
  • 1997 ‘Measuring the Economic and Social Impact of the National Lottery - Methodological Issues’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A - Statistics in Society, 160 Part 2: 213
  • 1996 ‘Planning for the British Millennium Festival: Establishing the Visitor Baseline and a Framework for Forecasting’ Journal of Festival and Event Management 3: 183-196
  • 1995 ‘The National Lottery: Planning for Leisure or Pay Up and Play the Game?’ Leisure Studies 14(4): 225-244


Books

  • 2009 Designing Sustainable Cities. Co-editor. with R.Cooper & C.Boyko (eds). Oxford, Wiley-Blackwells, pp.300
  • 2001 Cultural Planning: An Urban Renaissance?. London, Routledge, pp.335

Book chapters

  • 2009 ‘Mixed-Use and Urban Sustainability: Mixed Messages?’, (with Jo Foord & Rosita Aiesha). In: Designing Sustainable Cities. Wiley-Blackwells: 190-217
  • 2009 ‘Creative Spaces and the Art of Urban Living’. In: Edensor, T., Millington, S. (eds) Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge: 19-32
  • 2009 ‘From cultural quarters to creative clusters: creative spaces in the new city economy’. In: The sustainability and development of cultural quarters: international perspectives (Legner, M. - ed). Stockholm: Institute of Urban History: 32-59
  • 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: 167-1812008 ‘Mixed-Use and Urban Sustainability: Mixed Messages?’, (with Jo Foord). In: Urban Sustainability decision-making tools and resources for design. Blackwells

Reports

  • 2009 Late/Light Night London, London Development Agency
  • 2009 Territorial Review Copenhagen, OECD
  • 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

  • 2009 Academic Expert: Olympic Legacy Directorate, London2012 Legacy Evaluation
  • 2008 OECD Metropolitan Review Expert panel (Copenhagen City/Oresund Region)
  • Editorial Board – Creative Industries and Town & City Management journals
  • 2007 World Leadership Forum, Town Planning Award Panel
  • 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 Facilitator2008 OECD Metropolitan Review Expert panel (Copenhagen City/Oresund Region)





 

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