Patsy Healey

Research interests

Honours

• In July 2009, she was awarded Ordinary Fellowship from the British Academy for distinction in Urban planning theory and practice.
• In October 2006, she received Royal Town Planning Institute’s Gold Medal Award on outstanding achievement in the field of town and country planning. Healey was the first woman ever to receive the award in its 53-year history.
• In June 2006, she was made a Fellow of University College, London.
• In 2004, she was recognised as an Honorary Member, by the Association of European Schools of Planning , only the second such honour to be awarded.
• In 1999, she was awarded an OBE for services to planning

  Memberships

• Founding Member of Planning and Honorary Member since 2004.
• In UK, member of the ODPM/DCLG Planning Research Network, the Planning Aid Council, the RTPI’s Knowledge and Research Committee.
• Has been member of the ICES-KIS Panel in the Netherlands in 2003
• Since 2004, she has been an adviser to the ODPM/DCLG’s Evaluation Study of the new Local Development Frameworks,
• Member of advisory panel for the ODPM on the evaluation of the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programme.
• On the Advisory Board of SITI, in Turin, Italy, and of CITTA, in the University of Porto, Portugal.

  Publications

Books

• Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: a relational planning for our times, Routledge, London, 2006. and .
• Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

  Journal articles

• Relational Complexity and the imaginative power of strategic spatial planning, European Planning Studies, 2006, Vol 14, pp 525–246
• Transforming governance: challenges of institutional adaptation and a new politics of space, European Planning Studies, 2006, Vol 14, pp. 299–319

  Book chapters

• Territory, integration and spatial planning, in Tewdwr-Jones, M and Allmendinger P, Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning: spatial governance in a fragmented nation, 2006, London, Routledge, pp. 64–79
• Making Better Places - The Planning Project in the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2010,

• Communicative Planning: Practices, Concepts and Rhetorics in Sanyal, Bishwapriya, Vale, Lawrence J. and Rosan, Christina D., Planning Ideas that Matter: Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice, 2012, Cambridge, MIT Press, pp. 333–358.