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About the Contributors
Catherine Blain, Architect and PhD in Urbanism, is a Research Fellow and a Lecturer at Ensap in Lille (LACTH). Her research, mainly focussed on the French Post-War period, develops different lines of investigation such as the CIAM and Team 10 debates or the history of New Towns. Author of several books and articles, she was the curator of the exhibition LAtelier de Montrouge, la modernit luvre (19581981) (CAPA, 2008). She is an active member of DoCoMoMo-France (scientific committee), Vice-president of the French Association dHistoire de lArchitecture (AHA) and member of European Architectural History Network (EAHN).
Tony Champion is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University. His research interests include change in population distribution and composition, with particular reference to counterurbanisation in developed countries and the policy implications of changes in local population profiles. He led the IUSSPs Working Group on Urbanisation in 19992002 and is author or co-author of several books, most recently Internal Migration in the Developed World (2018), Population Change in the United Kingdom (2016), New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy (2004) and The Containment of Urban Britain: Retrospect and Prospect (2002).
Sabine Coady Schbitz is an Associate Professor in Architecture and Associate Head of School of Art and Design at Coventry University. She is trained as an architect at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar and studied architectural conservation at ICCROM in Rome. She was the Co-Investigator for the New Towns Heritage Research Network project funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 20162018. Her publications focus on cultural heritage, architectural and urban history, and design education.
Bob Colenutt is an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. He has a career in urban planning in local government and the community sector. He was the Principal Investigator for the New Towns Heritage Research Network project funded through the AHRC in 20162018. He is the author of several books and articles on housing development, community development and urban policy.
Alina Congreve has worked as a Lecturer and Principal Lecturer specialising in Planning and Housing at a number of universities including London School of Economics (LSE), University College London (UCL), Reading and Hertfordshire. At Reading and Hertfordshire, her postgraduate teaching had a strong focus on new towns. She has supervised a number of postgraduate dissertations and group projects on different aspects of New Towns including Bracknell, Hemel Hempstead, Hatfield, Stevenage and Milton Keynes. She holds a PhD in Geography and Planning from Kings College London and an MSc in Conservation from UCL. She is a trustee of the Harlow Art Trust, and was invited to join the trustees after organising a conference to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Harlow New Town.
Julia Deltoro-Soto is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Construction at the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia, with a background as an architect and urban designer. She obtained her PhD in Architecture in 2015 with the theme: Urban experience of British New Towns through compared examples; Harlow, Thamesmead and Milton Keynes. She has researched and published on topics related to urban design and planning, urban history and morphology, New Towns and economic and industrial land planning and strategies.
David Fe is a Professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and Head of CREC, the Sorbonne Nouvelle Research Centre on contemporary Britain. He specialises in the study of housing and urban policies in the UK as well as the British welfare state. He is the author of many articles on housing and planning in the UK as well as a book on the housing crisis in the UK (La crise du logement en Angleterre: 40 ans de politiques du logement et de la ville, Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2013). His current topics of research include inequalities in the UK, and British and French New Towns from a comparative and international perspective.
Susan Fitzpatrick is a Lecturer in Human Geography at York St John University, UK. She has been researching placemaking and the British New Town since 2015. She has previously published work on residents responses to cultural and regeneration policy in the context of both Liverpools European Capital of Culture of 2008 and Glasgows Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Danielle Gardrat is the Head of Planning and Development for the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines combined authority. She leads a 12-member team in charge of the new local plan, the climate plan, as well as urban studies at various levels and planning documents. She holds a Masters degree in Planning and Urban Projects Management from Ecole des Ponts et Chausses, Paris, and a degree in Sociology. Previously, she worked in the New Town development corporation of Cergy-Pontoise (EPA) for 13 years.
