Urban Studies, Transport and Architectural Space DTP Pathway

Potential Primary Supervisors

1. Space Syntax Laboratory – Professor Laura Vaughan [email protected]

Ms Ava Fatah gen Schieck (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
Architecture and interaction design; Media Architecture; Media City; Digital Urban
Interaction; Mixed Reality; Augmented Reality; Sensory environments (with the focus on
museums); human-centered Smart city; embodied and embedded interactions; Urban Media
art; Design, content creation, placement and evaluation of public displays and networked
urban screens; Co-creation of media content with communities.

Dr Sean Hanna (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Spatial cognition; mathematical and computational modelling of spatial and social
relationships; individual and collective creativity; machine learning and intelligence;
complexity and big data.

Dr Sam Griffiths (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Theories and methods for researching and writing the historical relationship between urban
populations and their built environments; the spatial cultures of industrial cities, suburbs and
high streets; urban manufacturing; architecture as chronotope in realist fiction and historical
writing; space syntax as an interdisciplinary approach to research in the humanities and
social sciences.

Dr Kayvan Karimi (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Evidence-informed, analytical, urban and architectural design; Organic cities and naturally-
evolved urban systems; Informal settlements and slum regeneration; New Towns; Strategic
planning and large-scale developments; Public realm and street design; spatial networks and
transport systems; spatial networks and urban economics..

Professor Alan Penn (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
Urban research at the scale between the building and the city; design of complex buildings
and their relations to organisations (i.e. hospitals, laboratories and offices); development of
computing for architecture; urban pollution dispersal; virtual reality applications for the built
environment; simulation of social phenomena and urban growth and change.

Dr Sophia Psarra (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Architecture narrative and fiction, geometry of architecture and urban space; conceptual
order, spatial morphology and spatial experience; the formation of spatial meaning in
architecture and symbolic languages across different media; architectural theory; the
morphology of cities in relation to processes of industrialisation, de-industrialisation and
innovation; spatial design of complex buildings and its relation to society and organisations;
computer modelling and visualisation.

Dr Kerstin Sailer (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)Relationship

between spatial configuration, organisational structure and social dynamics within complex
buildings (offices, schools, laboratories, universities, hospitals, multifunctional buildings);
Space usage patterns; Organisational theory, Organisational behaviours, Space Syntax, Social
Network Analysis, Evidence-Based Design.

Professor Laura Vaughan (Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
The relationship between urban form and society with regard to communities, social and
economic spatial patterns; suburbs and suburban town centres; ethnic and immigrant
quarters; neighbourhoods and town centres; poverty and prosperity; wellbeing and health.
Urban historical research, focusing on the nineteenth century city; urban mapping.

2. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – Dr Ed Manley <[email protected]>

Dr Elsa Arcaute (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Network Modelling; Scaling Laws; Percolation Theory; Fractal Models

Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Data Visualisation; Digital Humanities; Cycling; Participation and Public Engagement

Professor Michael Batty (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Land Use Transportation Modelling; Network Models; Agent-based Modelling; Urban
Planning

Dr Adam Dennett (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Migration; Demographics; Population Geography; Urban Geography

Dr Hannah Fry (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Mathematical Models of Economic and Social Systems

Professor Andy Hudson Smith (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Internet of Things; Smart Cities; Urban Planning

Dr Ed Manley (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)

Transportation; New Forms of Data; Machine Learning; Spatial Cognition; Agent-based
Modelling

Dr Duncan Smith (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)
Urban Geography; Data Visualisation; Transport Accessibility

3. Transport Institute - Dr Nicola Christie <[email protected]>

Professor Tao Cheng (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
Analysis of geo-located and time-stamped data in order to engineer solutions to improve the
mobility, security, health and resilience of urban living.

Dr Nicola Christie (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)

The relationship between psychological, social, economic and environmental factors which
underlie risk in the built environment and create perceived barriers to active travel; The
impact of transport on the people’s health and wellbeing; The causes and consequences of
unintentional injuries from a human factors perspective; Evaluation science

Professor Muki Haklay (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
Public access to environmental information citizen science: community-led investigation,
development and use of participatory GIS and mapping, and Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI) for geospatial technologies.

Dr James Haworth (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)

Geodemographic and geospatial analysis applied to retail patterns, crimes, policing and
traffic collisions.

Professor Peter Jones (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
Transport policy; Option generation; Transport appraisal; Street planning and design

Professor Francesca Medda (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic

Engineering)
Transport Finance; Urban Impact Finance; Indirect economic impacts and financial urban
intervention under natural and human hazards

Dr Helena Titheridge (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)

Sustainable systems, particularly transport systems; Development of decision support tools
for local authorities; Social dimensions of sustainability

Professor Nick Tyler (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
Aspects of accessibility and public transport; Developing models for accessible pedestrian
infrastructure

Professor Andy Tolmie (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)
Transport psychology; acquisition of road-crossing skills among children

Claire Ellul
Geographical Information Science, 3D GIS, 3D City Modelling, Smart Cities, Building
Information Modelling BIM, Spatial Databases, Spatial Data Management

Jan Boehm
Reality Capture, 3D Imaging, Photogrammetry, Laser Scanning, Big Geospatial Data, Building
Information Modelling (BIM), Scan2BIM, Monitoring, Robotics

4. UCL Urban Lab – Dr Andrew Harris <[email protected]>

Professor Michele Acuto (UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public
Policy)
Global city politics; the use of STS methods in international relations and urbanism; the
intersection between city networks, urbanisation and global governance
Dr Pushpa Arabindoo (UCL Department of Geography)
Urbanization, public space and political activism in India; cities and climate change

Professor Matthew Beaumont (UCL Department of English)

The night-time city

Dr Yasminah Beebeejaun (The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL)

Territorialisation of certain spaces as ethnic; community engagement in decision-making;
and exploration of the creation of inequalities both within historical and contemporary
debates about nationhood, colonialism, and postcolonial society in post-war Britain and
North America.

Dr Sarah Bell (UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)

Sustainability of urban water systems, particularly social and policy factors as they relate to
engineering; community engagement with engineering and infrastructure provision

Dr Camillo Boano (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL)

Urban development, contested urbanism, socio-spatial dialectics, design and urban
transformations, and shelter and housing reconstruction in geographies of the global south

Professor Iain Borden (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Large-scale architectural and urban spaces in cities worldwide; cities, film and mobility

Dr Victor Buchli (UCL Department of Anthropology)

Architecture, domesticity, the archaeology of the recent past, critical understandings of
materiality and new technologies and the anthropology of sustainability and design

Dr Ben Campkin (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Urban decline and 'regeneration' in London; housing, including early twentieth century slum
clearances, and the representation and redevelopment of modernist mass housing; and the
uses of images in urban change.

Professor Licia Capra (UCL Department of Computer Science)

Ubiquitous computing. Specific topics include: crowd-sourcing and crowd-sensing, urban
computing, location-based services, recommender systems, data mining for development.

Dr Claire Colomb (The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL)

Urban governance, policies and politics, European spatial planning, and urban sociology.

Dr Adam Drazin (UCL Department of Anthropology)

Culture, materials and design

Professor Murray Fraser (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Design, architectural history & theory, urbanism, and cultural studies.
Dr Alexandre Apsan Frediani (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL)
Squatter settlement upgrading policies and participatory approaches to development. Areas
of expertise include human development, housing, urban development, participation and
Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach.

Dr Andrew Harris (UCL Department of Geography)

Art, space and the city; creative cities; gentrification; urban infrastructure; vertical urbanism

Dr Susan Moore (The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL)

Relational geographies of urban (and suburban) development and built form, alongside the
increasing role of private development and building interests in the co-ordination and
implementation of normative urban planning and design-related policies.

Professor Jane Rendell (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

Interdisciplinary intersections between architecture, art, feminism and psychoanalysis.

Professor Jennifer Robinson (UCL Department of Geography)

South Africa, including studies of segregation and state power; the politics of urban
development; comparative urbanism; city strategies and the circulation of urban policy.