Field, Martin

Bio Sketch

Martin Field is a planning and housing researcher at the University of Northampton (Faculty of Business & Law; Northampton Institute for Urban Affairs / Collaborative Centre for the Built Environment), the third member — with Allan Cochrane and Bob Colenutt — of the research team whose ESRC project Tensions and future prospects for sustainable housing growth. A case study of Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes (ES/1038632/1) produced the wiki's founding suburbanism texts: the sub-regional growth-strategy study (2013), the volume house-building governance study (2015), and "Living on the Edge" (Built Environment 41.4, 2015) (web-verified via NECTAR, the University of Northampton repository, and Open Research Online).

Key Works

• *Living on the Edge: Building a Sub/Urban Region* (2015) — with Cochrane & Colenutt; the suburbs repositioned as central to urbanism (Built Environment 41.4, pp. 567–578)
• "Governing the ungovernable: spatial policy, markets and volume house-building in a growth region" (with Cochrane & Colenutt, Policy and Politics 43.4, 2015)
• "The rise and rise of viability assessment" (with Cochrane & Colenutt, Town and Country Planning 84.10, 2015)
• "Developing a sub-regional growth strategy: reflections on recent English experience" (with Cochrane & Colenutt, Local Economy 28.7-8, 2013)

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• suburbanism — the growth-region research programme the suburbanism cluster is founded on
• housing — the housing-led growth machine audited by the trio (targets, Sustainable Communities Plan, infrastructure)
• post-suburbia — the "new suburbia" of sustainable urban extensions and growth towns
• sustainability — the "sustainable communities" discourse and its viability-era eclipse

Relevance to the Core Research

Field completes the trio whose ESRC growth-region research supplies the wiki's suburbanism cluster with its empirical core: interviews with planners, housing professionals, politicians and community activists on the edge of the London city region. The trio's interviews give the wiki direct access to the professional languages of growth — "nimbyism," viability, "sustainable urban extensions" — which are the planning-side counterparts of the wiki's design-disciplinary concepts, and the fine grain of how the "(sub)urban region" is talked into being.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Living on the Edge: Building a Sub/Urban Region (2015) — with Allan Cochrane and Bob Colenutt