Professor Alex Lord B.A., Ph.D.
Lever Chair of Town and Regional Planning Geography and Planning
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- Work email A.D.Lord@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
The economic effects of urban and environmental planning
Alex works on the economic effects of urban and environmental planning and has conducted research for a wide range of funders including an Economic and Social Research Council ‘Urban Transformations’ award on the behavioural economics of real estate markets. Alex has also conducted research for the Royal Town Planning Institute on the potential value of planning as a formal animator of development as well as leading the consortium of universities (Cambridge, LSE, Oxford, Sheffield) which completed Valuing Planning Obligations 2016/17 for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. From 2019 onwards Alex will lead a £1.5 multi-institution, trans-national project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Natural Science Foundation China on Land Value Capture.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
The potential of Land Value Capture to secure sustainable urban development supporting air quality enhancement
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2019 - February 2024
Additional Supplement HEIF Allocation 2020-21
RESEARCH ENGLAND (UK)
August 2020 - July 2021
Simulations for Innovative Mechanisms for the Self-organizing City: testing new tools for Value Capturing
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2014 - December 2018
Putting a price on planning? A cross-national investigation into the behavioural economics of managed development
ROYAL TOWN PLANNING INSTITUTE (UK)
March 2015 - October 2015
Pioneers in Urban- Rural Entrepeneurship Hub
BOERENBOND (BELGIUM)
June 2012 - May 2015
Celtic Seas Partnership
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2012 - March 2017