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Dr Samer Bagaeen FHEA, FRGS, MRTPI, FRICS

Principal Lecturer

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Environment and Technology
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642375

Email: S.G.Bagaeen@brighton.ac.uk

Teaching

  • Planning Theory
  • International Practice in Property and Planning
  • Sustainable Urbanism in Coastal Communities
  • Management of People and Organisations
  • Learning Log
  • Scenario Planning

Research

  • Coastal planning and regeneration (Project GIFS - Geography of Inshore Fishing and Sustainability awarded in November 2011 for three years under the INTERREG IVA: 2 Seas Programme. This project, with the University of Greenwich as LP) explores the role of marine fishing in the creation of place identity and sustainable communities in case studies in England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
  • Employment and regeneration (Project SolidarCity - awarded under INTERREG IVC Priority 1 funding to look at the role and involvement of local & regional authorities and civic society in employment generation opportunities. The main objective of this 3-year €1.5million project, with academic, local and regional actors in the UK, Greece, Finland, Bulgaria, Italy and Romania, is to develop joint strategies and implementation measures focusing on employment rate increase in the EU)
  • The social and spatial production of injustice (Gated Communities)
  • Megaprojects and 'imagineered' urbanism in Dubai
  • Military brownfields and the reuse of redundant defence estates (awards from the RIBA Research Trust and the Bill Sargent Trust of the First Wessex Group in Portsmouth)
  • Sustainable urban development & brownfield regeneration (EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environments Programme)
  • Community planning - On Our Doorstep: Hastings Community Planning Resource, funded by CUPP (University of Brighton's Community University Partnership Programme)
  • Retail developments and impacts on town centres
  • The Spanish housing market (award form Santander Universities)

Consultancy

  • Undertaken several international consultancy assignments over a 17-year period in the areas of strategy development. master planning and capacity building in Jordan, Palestine, India, Cuba, Qatar, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Scotland and England

Biography

  • Joined the University of Brighton in 2008
  • Educated at University College London (BSc Architecture, MSc Architecture, PhD Planning Studies), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Diploma), and the University of Strathclyde Business School (MBA)
  • Research Student Division Leader for the School of Environment and Technology (March 2010-August 2011)
  • Course Leader for the MSc in Town Planning
  • Director of the University of Brighton Coastal Regeneration Research Centre
  • Visiting Professor of Planning, Institute for Urban Economy, Universidad Esan, Lima, Peru
  • Visiting Professor of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Malaya, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
  • External Examiner, Department of Town and Regional Planning, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
  • Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Selected as a Biographee in the 2012 & 2011 Editions of Marquis Who's Who in the World
  • Member of CHOPS, the UK Conference of Heads of Planning Schools
  • Elected into membership of the Policy Council of the Town and Country Planning Association (2011-2014)
  • Elected into membership of the General Assembly of the Royal Town Planning Institute (2011-2013)
  • Conference Chair, the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2012 (www.brighton.ac.uk/prc2012)
  • Conference Chair, the 7th Private Urban Governance Conference, 2013 (www.brighton.ac.uk/gated2013)
  • Chair of Governors, St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Brighton and Hove (2010-2013)
  • Director, Brighton Bilingual Primary School (Free Academy School opening in Brighton and Hove in September 2012)
  • Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Course Director for the MSc in Urban Planning and Real Estate, University of Aberdeen (2006-2008)
  • Research Fellow in Urban Sustainability, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde (2004-2006)
  • Management Committee Member, Partick Housing Association, Glasgow
  • Non-Executive Director, Partick Works Ltd., Glasgow
  • Head of Urban Studies, MAWARED, Jordan (2003-2004)
  • Master Plan Coordinator, Old City of Jerusalem Revitalisation Programme (1997-1999)
  • Lecturer & Instructor in Architecture and Urban Design, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan (1994-1997)

Research Publications

Number of items: 29.

Bagaeen, S. (2012) Beyond gated communities; urban gating, soft boundaries and networks of influence and affluence Environment and Planning A . ISSN 0308-518X (Submitted)

Bagaeen, S (2012) Cities: Dubai In: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability (invited submission). Berkshire Publication, Massachusetts, USA. ISBN 978-1-933782-01-0

Dobson, J. and Bagaeen, S. (2012) Forces for good: making the most of military land for public benefit Town and Country Planning, 81 (4). pp. 192-195. ISSN 0040-9960

Bagaeen, S. (2012) Review of "Justice and the American metropolis" Urban Studies . ISSN 0042-0980 (Submitted)

Bagaeen, S. and Gilbert-Smith, A. (2012) Understanding stakeholder consultation in the preparation of the New Forest National Park Management Plan Town Planning Review . ISSN 0041-0020 (Submitted)

BAGAEEN, SAMER (2011) Understanding power dynamics in the planning process: the case of a retail development in Glasgow International Journal of Sustainable Society, 3 (4). pp. 356-384. ISSN 1756-2538

Bagaeen, S. (2011) Review of Towards the healthy city: people, places and the politics of urban planning Urban Studies, 48 (6). pp. 1293-1295. ISSN 0042-0980

Frey, H. W. and Bagaeen, S. (2010) Adapting the city In: Jenks, M. and Jones, C., eds. Dimensions of the sustainable city. Springer, USA. ISBN 9781402086465

Bagaeen, S and Uduku, O, eds. (2010) Gated communities: social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments Earthscan, London, UK. ISBN 978-1-84407-519-5

Bagaeen, S. (2010) Gated urban life versus kinship and social solidarity in the Middle East In: Bagaeen, S. and Uduku, O., eds. Gated communities: Social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments. Earthscan, London. ISBN 9781844075195

Bagaeen, S. (2010) Review of "European spatial research and planning" Urban Studies, 47 (1). pp. 220-222. ISSN 0042-0980

Bagaeen, S. (2009) Review of "Green cities: urban growth and the environment" Journal of Urban Design, 14 (4). pp. 565-575. ISSN 1357-4809

Bagaeen, S. (2008) Review of "Growing smarter: achieving livable communities, environmental justice and regional equity" Urban Studies, 45 (13). pp. 2879-2881. ISSN 0042-0980

Bagaeen, S. (2008) Review of "Nature in fragments: the legacy of sprawl" Journal of Urban Design, 13 (1). pp. 147-157. ISSN 1357-4809

Bagaeen, S. and Woods, L. (2008) Sustainability in the city region: toward a new way of thinking, planning and managing in Glasgow (Sostenibilidad en la region urbana: construyendo enscenarios para el dessarrollo sostenibile en Glasgow) In: Schoonjans, Y., Lievens, W., Cornona Martinez, A., Petric, J., Vigo, L. and Pinheiro Machado, D., eds. Readings on Sustainability and Heritage - architecture and urban culture in Latin America and Europe. School of Architecture, Saint Lucas, Brussels, pp. 167-193. ISBN 9789081323819

Bagaeen, S. (2007) Brand Dubai: the instant city; or the instantly recognizable city International Planning Studies, 12 (2). pp. 173-197. ISSN 1356-3475

Bagaeen, S. (2007) Review of "City of collision: Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism" Urban Studies, 44 (8). pp. 1620-1622. ISSN 0042-0980

Bagaeen, S. (2007) Review of "Private cities: global and local perspectives" Urban Studies, 44 (1). pp. 199-200. ISSN 0042-0980

Bagaeen, S. (2007) Review of "Smart and sustainable built environments" Journal of Urban Design, 12 (1). pp. 161-162. ISSN 1357-4809

Bagaeen, S (2007) Sustainable urban development: urban intensification in the city region In: Proceedings of the Housing Symposium 3: Neighbourhoods are more than houses. High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, pp. 3-16.

Bagaeen, S. (2006) Brownfield sites as building blocks for sustainable urban environments: a view on international experience in redeveloping former military sites Urban Design International, 11 (2). pp. 117-128. ISSN 1357-5317

Bagaeen, S. (2006) Ciudades sin ciudades: Puerto Dubai Neutra, 14 . pp. 31-33. ISSN 1138-1507

Bagaeen, S. (2006) Evaluating the effects of ownership and use on the condition of property in the Old City of Jerusalem Housing Studies, 21 (1). pp. 135-150. ISSN 0267-3037

Bagaeen, S. (2006) Housing condition in the in the Old City of Jerusalem: an empirical study Habitat International, 30 (1). pp. 87-106. ISSN 0197-3975

Bagaeen, S. (2006) Redeveloping former military sites: competitiveness, urban sustainability and public participation Cities, 23 (5). pp. 339-352. ISSN 0264-2751

Bagaeen, S. (2006) Review of "Cities without cities: an interpretation of the Zwischenstadt". Planning Theory and Practice, 7 (4). pp. 482-483. ISSN 1464-9357

Frey, H., Ferguson, N., Bagaeen, S. and Woods, L. (2006) Suburbs reconsidered: form, mobility and sustainability Built Environment, 32 (3). pp. 250-266. ISSN 0263-7960

Bagaeen, S (2006) Sustainability in the city region In: TransUrban, TU, ed. Urban Culture in Focus (Volume 2). Verlag des Instituts für Verleichende Architekturforschung, Vienna, Austria, pp. 88-97. ISBN 3900265070

Bagaeen, S. (2004) Political conflict, town planning and housing supply in Jerusalem: the implications for the built environment in the Old City City, 8 (2). pp. 197-219. ISSN 1360-4813

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