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Overview

Patsy Healey was affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their academic contributions primarily belonged to the field of Social Sciences, with particular focus on the subfields of Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, General Social Sciences, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The main topics covered in their work included:

  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Social Science and Policy Research
  • Political and Economic History of UK and US
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Rural Development and Sustainability

Patsy Healey published numerous scholarly articles with recurring appearances in key academic journals and venues. Frequent publication locations included:

  • Planning Theory & Practice (4 publications)
  • Planning Theory (2 publications)
  • European Planning Studies (2 publications)
  • disP - The Planning Review (1 publication)
  • University of Thessaly (1 publication)

Prominent recent papers authored by Patsy Healey were:

  • The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World, 2022, Planning Theory & Practice
  • Planning and caring: A reflection, 2024, Planning Theory
  • A new beginning? Spatial planning and research in Europe between 1945 and 1975, 2023, European Planning Studies
  • Planning Knowledge and Situated Practices, 2022, disP - The Planning Review
  • Judith Innes, 2020, Planning Theory & Practice

The scientist collaborated frequently with other researchers, with the following coauthors appearing multiple times in their work:

  • Tom Johnston (4 joint publications)
  • Frank Mansfield (2 joint publications)
  • Χάρης Κοκκώσης (1 joint publication)
  • Ehsan Mahmoodi (1 joint publication)

Patsy Healey's scholarly output covered a broad range of topics often intersecting urban planning, governance, and social science policy research. Their work examined both theoretical frameworks and situated practices in spatial planning and policy making, with studies addressing historical and contemporary issues in Europe and broader social contexts.

Best Publications

  • Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies

    Patsy Ingold Healey

  • Planning through debate: the communicative turn in planning theory

    Patsy Healey

  • Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times

    Patsy Healey

  • Collaborative Planning in Perspective

    Patsy Healey

  • The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation

    P Healey

  • Building institutional capacity through collaborative approaches to urban planning

    P Healey

  • The Treatment of Space and Place in the New Strategic Spatial Planning in Europe

    Patsy Healey

  • Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe

    Louis Albrechts;Patsy Healey;Klaus R. Kunzmann

  • Relational concepts of space and place: Issues for planning theory and practice

    Stephen Graham;Patsy Healey

  • Institutionalist Analysis, Communicative Planning, and Shaping Places

    Patsy Healey

  • Collaborative planning in a stakeholder society

    Patsy Healey

  • Transforming governance: Challenges of institutional adaptation and a new politics of space

    Patsy Healey

  • Making Better Places: The Planning Project in the Twenty-First Century

    Patsy Healey

  • Structure and Agency in Land and Property Development Processes : Some Ideas for Research

    Patsy Healey;Susan M. Barrett

  • A Sociological Institutionalist Approach to the Study of Innovation in Governance Capacity

    Sara González;Patsy Healey

  • Managing cities : the new urban context

    Patsy Healey

  • Relational complexity and the imaginative power of strategic spatial planning

    Patsy Healey

  • Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux

    P Healey;G Cars;A Madanipour;de, Magalhaes, C

  • Planning, Governance and Spatial Strategy in Britain: An Institutionalist Analysis

    GI Vigar;P Healey;A Hull;S Davoudi

  • Towards cosmopolis: Planning for multi-cultural cities

    P Healey

  • Meaning in Action: Interpretation and Dialogue in Policy Analysis

    Patsy Healey

  • Planning With Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

    Patsy Healey

  • The deliberative practitioner: Encouraging participatory planning processes.

    P Healey

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham Newcastle University
Jon Coaffee
Jon Coaffee University of Warwick
Rob Imrie
Rob Imrie King's College London
Michael Batty
Michael Batty University College London

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