MINPARK.CITY

4 entries

Publications

Commissioned reports, dissertations and articles.

  • Article

    2026

    Can You Build a City like a Startup?

    MPLAN Mag
    Sole author

    What happens when the logic of the startup is applied to the city? This article explores the appeal of treating urban development as a process of experimentation, iteration and rapid change, while questioning where that analogy breaks down. Cities are not products. They are shaped by long time horizons, institutional structures, competing public interests and places that cannot simply be redesigned and relaunched. The essay considers what urban practitioners might learn from the startup mindset, and what cities demand that startups cannot provide.

  • Report

    2026

    Green Belts 2.0: Working Harder for Climate, Cities and Communities

    C40 Knowledge Hub
    Co-authored with Georgia Cameron

    Green belts are usually framed as instruments for limiting urban growth. This report asks whether they can also function as infrastructure for climate resilience, biodiversity, air quality and communities. Drawing on twelve international cases, the research compares different models of green belt governance and examines how these landscapes interact with peri-urban change, housing pressure and environmental objectives. The report argues for a broader understanding of green belts: not simply as boundaries around cities, but as landscapes whose environmental and social functions depend on how they are governed.

  • Thesis

    2025

    Defining and Measuring Socio-Ecological Publicness in the Privatised City

    University College London
    MPlan Dissertation · Distinction

    What makes privately controlled urban space genuinely public? This research develops a quantitative framework for understanding publicness as a socio-ecological condition rather than simply a legal designation or spatial characteristic. Applied to privately owned public spaces in Canary Wharf and Yeouido, the framework brings together governance, spatial and environmental dimensions to examine how public benefit is produced under different regulatory conditions. The research identifies distinct constraints on publicness in the two cases, demonstrating how formal public access does not necessarily translate into equivalent social or environmental benefit.

  • Chapter

    2024

    A Comparative Analysis of the Camden Highline with the Regent's Canal Towpath and New York Highline

    Just Space
    Team of 7

    A comparative appraisal of the proposed Camden Highline, London's Regent's Canal towpath and New York's High Line. The report examines access, cost, funding, maintenance, visitor capacity and neighbourhood effects to test the assumptions underlying the proposed project's public benefit. It also considers the wider implications of introducing a new public amenity into a neighbourhood under development pressure, including the potential relationship between public investment, rising land values and displacement.