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Miss Elena Besussi
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Central House
14 Upper Woburn Place
London
WC1H 0NN
Appointment
- Teaching Fellow
- The Bartlett School of Planning
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Biography
I am a Teaching Fellow in Plan Making and a PhD candidate in Planning Studies at the Bartlett School of Planning.
Research Themes
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Research areas
Power, politics and planning
- community-led planning
- the politics of knowledge and evidence in planning
- the politics of urban regeneration
Land
- land as financial asset; land in capital accumulation
- public land management and disposal; public land privatisation
- the regulation of land and property rights
- land value capture
Capitalist city
- economic restructuring and economic diversity
- political economy of housing; housing privatisation;
- wealth creation and redistribution
- service privatisation and urban austerity
Current projects
Micropolitics of community-led planning
This research investigates through qualitative and quantitative analysis, practices of community activism and community-led planning with the aim to discuss its implications for the distribution of power in urban development decision making. Contexts for this research include: - the interaction between community activism and neighbourhood planning established in England by the Localism Act in 2011; - quantitative analysis of the social, ethnic and economic make-up of neighbourhood forums and neighbourhood planning areas in London - institutionalisation of community organising and community engagement in neighbourhood planning.
Teaching Summary
I teach at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate level at the Bartlett School of Planning. For the past three years I have been mainstreaming a teaching format based on community embedded learning with the purpose of developing the role and impact of the university and its researchers in supporting community organisation through technical expertise. Community-based and collaborative learning allows students to engage with the actual protagonists and their experience of planning and urban development. This format is developed jointly with Just Space (https://justspace.org.uk)
As module coordinator
BENVGPLD - From Strategic Vision to Spatial PlanBENVGPD3 - Collaborative City Planning Strategies
As module contributor
BENVGEPA - Planning Practices in Europe
BENVGEPA - Planning Practices in Europe
ENVS2010 - Planning Project: Plan Making
Appointments
| 01-SEP-2012 | Teaching Fellow | The Bartlett School of Planning | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-SEP-2007 – 31-AUG-2014 | Teaching Fellow | The Bartlett School of Architecture | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 01-SEP-2007 – 31-AUG-2012 | Post Graduate Teaching Assistant | The Bartlett School of Planning | UCL, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
| 1998 | LAU | Laurea – Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional) | Universita Iuav di Venezia |
