Professor John Tomaney

• Project Team (UK) University College London
• Email: j.tomaney@ucl.ac.uk

Professor John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. John was previously Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University.

John’s research focuses on the development of cities and regions as socioeconomic, political and cultural phenomena and the role of public policy in the management of these. John's research has focused particulary on questions of the governance of local and regional eocnomies, including questions of spatial planning. John’s work contributes to debates about the relational and territorial conceptions of place and space, which remain central to debates in planning, geography and the social sciences more generally. An additional theme of work concerns the imaginative representation of cities and regions in literature and art. John’s work is frequently aimed at live policy debates and he has undertaken research for international organisations and national, regional and local governments, NGOs and private organisations. He has worked in several countries but has a particular interest in urban and regional planning in the EU, UK and Australia.