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1034

Overview

Yvonne Rydin is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a particular concentration in urban studies, finance, and related subfields such as general agricultural and biological sciences, management of technology and innovation, and media technology.

Their work encompasses a range of topics including:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Smart Cities and Technologies

They have published frequently in venues such as:

  • Planning Practice and Research
  • Built Environment
  • Policy Press eBooks
  • Planning Theory & Practice
  • Planning Theory

Recent research articles authored or co-authored by Yvonne Rydin include:

  • Discovering the diverse economy of a 'left-behind' town, 2023, Planning Practice and Research
  • A postgrowth response to Savini's degrowth vision, 2024, Planning Theory
  • Challenging Pro-Growth Dynamics by Developing Planning Knowledges for Diverse Economies, 2025, Built Environment

Additional recent related publications where Rydin is not the primary author but within their research context include:

  • The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth, 2023, Planning Theory & Practice
  • Response to EPS review of Regulation and Planning, 2022, European Planning Studies

Yvonne Rydin has collaborated with a range of co-authors throughout their career, including:

  • Daniel Durrant
  • Christian Lamker
  • Robert A. Beauregard
  • Marco Cremaschi
  • Laura Lieto

Their contributions extend to book publishing with the release of Planning without Growth (2025), published by Policy Press.

Best Publications

  • Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century

    Yvonne Rydin;Ana Bleahu;Michael Davies;Julio D. Dávila

  • Public Participation and Local Environmental Planning: The collective action problem and the potential of social capital

    Yvonne Rydin;Mark Pennington

  • Remaking Planning: The Politics of Urban Change

    Tim Brindley;Yvonne Rydin;Gerry Stoker

  • Re-Examining the Role of Knowledge Within Planning Theory:

    Yvonne Rydin

  • Re‐evaluating the Contribution of Social Capital in Achieving Sustainable Development

    Yvonne Rydin;Nancy Holman

  • Urban and Environmental Planning in the UK

    Yvonne Rydin

  • Geographical knowledge and policy: the positive contribution of discourse studies

    Yvonne Rydin

  • Local Sustainability Indicators

    Yvonne Rydin;Nancy Holman;Esther Wolff

  • Regime Politics in London Local Government

    Keith Dowding;Patrick Dunleavy;Desmond King;Helen Z Margetts

  • The Language of Environment: A New Rhetoric

    George Myerson;Yvonne Rydin

  • Governing for Sustainable Urban Development

    Yvonne Rydin

  • Using Actor–Network Theory to understand planning practice: Exploring relationships between actants in regulating low-carbon commercial development

    Yvonne Rydin

  • Institutions and indicators - the discourse about indicators in the context of sustainability

    Florentina Astleithner;Alexander Hamedinger;Nancy Holman;Yvonne Rydin

  • Indicators as a Governmental Technology? The Lessons of Community-Based Sustainability Indicator Projects:

    Yvonne Rydin

  • Can we talk ourselves into sustainability? The role of discourse in the environmental policy process

    Y Rydin

  • Networks and institutions in natural resource management

    Yvonne Rydin;Eva Falleth

  • Actor Networks of Planning : Exploring the influence of Actor Network Theory

    Yvonne Rydin;Laura Ellen Tate

  • Remaking planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years

    Tim Brindley;Yvonne Rydin;Gerry Stoker

  • Incorporating sustainable development concerns into an urban regeneration project: how politics can defeat procedures

    Yvonne Rydin;Nancy Holman;Vicky Hands;Florian Sommer

  • Urban Sustainability: discourses, networks and policy tools'

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  • Conflicting discourses of knowledge: Understanding the policy adoption of pro-burning knowledge claims in Cape York Peninsula, Australia

    David Ockwell;Yvonne Rydin

  • The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence

    Yvonne Rydin

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Devine-Wright
Patrick Devine-Wright University of Exeter
Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin University College London
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Nora Groce
Nora Groce University College London
Philippa Howden-Chapman
Philippa Howden-Chapman University of Otago
Rob Imrie
Rob Imrie King's College London
Nicholas A. Phelps
Nicholas A. Phelps University of Melbourne

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