page_title: Patsy Healey
section_title: Research interests
hierarchical_section_title: Patsy Healey / Research interests
caption_attribution_description: English: Patsy Healey speaking at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2011.
context_page_description: Patsy Healey OBE FBA FAcSS is a British urban planner. She is professor emeritus at Global Urban Research Unit in the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, at Newcastle University. She is a specialist in planning theory and practice, with a particular focus on strategic spatial planning for city regions and in urban regeneration policies. She is Senior Editor of Planning Theory and Practice journal, jointly published by TandF and the RTPI.
  She is the daughter of the mycologist Cecil T. Ingold
context_section_description: She has undertaken research on the preparation and implementation of development plan frameworks, on how planning strategies work out in practice and on partnership forms of governance at the neighbourhood, city and city region scales. Over the years, she has developed approaches to collaborative planning practices, linked to an institutionalist analysis of urban socio-spatial dynamics and urban governance, with books on urban governance and on strategic spatial planning in Europe.
caption: Patsy Healey speaking at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2011. Photo by Roberto Rocco.
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