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Dr Brendan Williams PhD., M.A., B.Sc., ARICS

Contact Details:

Title	Lecturer
Address	School of Geog, Planning & Env Policy Planning and Env Policy Belfield Dublin 4
Telephone:	Ext. 2765
Email:	ei.dcu@smailliw.nadnerb

Title	Director Urban Environment Project
Address	Urban Institute of Ireland Richview Clonskeagh Dublin 4
Telephone:	+353 1 7162765
Email:	ei.dcu@smailliw.nadnerb

Biography:

Brendan Williams lectures in Urban Development and Urban Economics at the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. He was Deputy Head of school from 2007-2010. He is Director of the Urban Environment Project at the Urban Institute Ireland at University College Dublin and has taught and researched at a number of universities in North America and Europe. In addition since February 2011 Dr. Williams is Visiting Professor to the School of Public policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston. He has published approximately 70 scientific papers and edited/co-authored 4 books on various aspects of planning and development in Ireland and internationally.

His doctoral research at TCD Dublin involved investigation of the impacts of fiscal incentives on Urban Regeneration in Dublin (examined by Univ. of Cambridge U.K.). He currently lectures at undergraduate and post graduate level in Urban Development and Urban Economics and supervises a team of PhDs in related research areas. His research interest on managing urban development and regeneration is pursued through several ongoing funded projects: Spatial Simulation for Social Sciences (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences - IRCHSS); Enhancing the MOLAND Model of the Greater Dublin Region: From strengthening theoretical foundations to improving end-user functionality (Science Foundation Ireland - SFI); Fiscal incentives for urban development and housing studies (Society of Chartered Surveyors); Peri-Urban Land use Relationships (European Commission FP6); and Urban Environment Project (Environmental Protection Agency) that he directs since 2009. He has extensive experience in professional consultancy and commercial research in urban development issues for a wide range of clients including the IMF, Government Agencies, Financial and Property companies. In addition he has designed and delivered Continuing Professional Development Programmes for professional and commercial organisations.

Examples of recent publications include a book on Partnerships in Urban Property Development (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), book chapters Planning and Sustainability: Metropolitan Planning, Housing and Land Policy (in Housing Contemporary Ireland: Policy, Society and Shelter, Springer, 2007), Blanchardstown, Suburban regeneration and renewal (in Regenerating Older Suburbs, Urban Land Institute, Washington , 2007), The Private Rented Sector in Dublin: Decline and Renewal (in Housing Contemporary Ireland: Policy, Society and Shelter, Springer Press, 2007), and an article Revisiting the Informational City Status Quo: Space of Flows, Polycentricity and the Geography of Knowledge-intensive Business Services in the Emerging Global City-Region of Dublin (Regional Studies, 2008). Dr. Williams is a Planning and development Surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was Chair from 2003-2005 of the Planning and Development Division of The Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland .