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Lauren Andres

by Richard Meckien - published Sep 18, 2015 10:37 AM - - last modified Jun 15, 2023 12:13 PM

	Lauren Andres joined the Bartlett School of Planning in January 2020 as Associate Professor in Urban Planning and was promoted to Full Professor in 2022. She was previously a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Spatial Planning, at the University of Birmingham (2009-2019). Andres originally trained in France, as an urban geographer (BSc-2002, MSc-2003) and urban planner (M.Phil-2004). She completed my PhD in Urban Planning in 2008, at the Institut d'urbanisme de Grenoble (Université Pierre Mendes France) where she was also lecturing (part-time and full-time) between 2004 and 2008. For over 15 years she has been training planning and geography students at all levels. At UCL/BSP, in 2020/21 and 2021/22, Andres was leading and coordinating the Year 1 Module "Planning History and Thought," the MSc module "Comparative Urban Projects," the newly developed elective MSc module "sustainability, resilience and climate change." In 2019/20 and 2020/21, she was also teaching on "Case Studies in Preparing Regeneration Projects," "Critical Issues in Infrastructure Funding and Finance" and "Critical Debates in Real Estate and Planning." Andres's work and contribution sit within the interface of planning, urban studies, and geography. Her research focuses on the temporary and more permanent transformations faced by cities, people, and places, in both developed (Europe, USA, Hong Kong) and developing contexts (South and East Africa, India, Brazil, Lebanon). She has an extensive track record in securing UKRI funding and leading interdisciplinary and comparative research. She is currently leading the ESRC/TAP PANEX – YOUTH project "Adaptations of young people in monetary-poor households for surviving and recovering from COVID-19 and associated lockdowns" (2022-2024). See: https://panexyouth.com/. Her core and primary interest in unwrapping urban transformations and its impact for urban and international planning has evolved and expanded conceptually, theoretically, and geographically along the years. From a focus on urban regeneration, brownfield development, and sustainable planning, it then included everyday, temporary, and longer-term socio-economic and spatial adaptations, power mechanisms, and their impact for urban and community resilience and planning; in the past five years, she has interrogated the implication of urban transformations for planning education and practice, for "temporary urbanism" - concept that she has developed and theorised - and lately for the post-pandemic city. Andres has published over 80 research outputs and this includes 4 books/edited books with two others under contract along with numerous papers in leading international journals (Urban Studies, Planning Theory, Progress in Human Geography, International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A, etc.).

Lauren Andres joined the Bartlett School of Planning in January 2020 as Associate Professor in Urban Planning and was promoted to Full Professor in 2022. She was previously a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Spatial Planning, at the University of Birmingham (2009-2019). Andres originally trained in France, as an urban geographer (BSc-2002, MSc-2003) and urban planner (M.Phil-2004). She completed my PhD in Urban Planning in 2008, at the Institut d'urbanisme de Grenoble (Université Pierre Mendes France) where she was also lecturing (part-time and full-time) between 2004 and 2008.

For over 15 years she has been training planning and geography students at all levels. At UCL/BSP, in 2020/21 and 2021/22, Andres was leading and coordinating the Year 1 Module "Planning History and Thought," the MSc module "Comparative Urban Projects," the newly developed elective MSc module "sustainability, resilience and climate change." In 2019/20 and 2020/21, she was also teaching on "Case Studies in Preparing Regeneration Projects," "Critical Issues in Infrastructure Funding and Finance" and "Critical Debates in Real Estate and Planning."

Andres's work and contribution sit within the interface of planning, urban studies, and geography. Her research focuses on the temporary and more permanent transformations faced by cities, people, and places, in both developed (Europe, USA, Hong Kong) and developing contexts (South and East Africa, India, Brazil, Lebanon). She has an extensive track record in securing UKRI funding and leading interdisciplinary and comparative research. She is currently leading the ESRC/TAP PANEX – YOUTH project "Adaptations of young people in monetary-poor households for surviving and recovering from COVID-19 and associated lockdowns" (2022-2024). See: https://panexyouth.com/.

Her core and primary interest in unwrapping urban transformations and its impact for urban and international planning has evolved and expanded conceptually, theoretically, and geographically along the years. From a focus on urban regeneration, brownfield development, and sustainable planning, it then included everyday, temporary, and longer-term socio-economic and spatial adaptations, power mechanisms, and their impact for urban and community resilience and planning; in the past five years, she has interrogated the implication of urban transformations for planning education and practice, for "temporary urbanism" - concept that she has developed and theorised - and lately for the post-pandemic city.

Andres has published over 80 research outputs and this includes 4 books/edited books with two others under contract along with numerous papers in leading international journals (Urban Studies, Planning Theory, Progress in Human Geography, International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A, etc.).

Event: Adaptability of Vulnerable Communities and Youth in Post-Pandemic Cities

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