Geoff was delighted to start the first lecturing of the year in the Urban Land Governance Specialization at the The Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam! Geoff has also been invited to give lectures on land tenure and property rights during the next month at the universities of Cambridge, London […]
Geoff contributed the article ‘Owning up: What price home ownership?’ to the December 2008 issue of Housing Finance International journal. The editor has kindly agreed that it can be downloaded free of charge and Geoff is happy to recommend the journal. Click here to see the article!
Geoff is extremely pleased and grateful that Liverpool University Press and the UK National Archives, which holds the copyright, have both given permission for the Urban Projects Manual: A guide to preparing upgrading and new development projects accessible to low income groups, edited by Geoff and Forbes Davidson, to be available for free download. However, this permission is […]
Geoff has been in Istanbul for the Marmara Urban Forum (MARUF) in early October 2019! He has given 2 presentations during the sessions called “The legacy of HABITAT conferences: From HABITAT I-III” and “Housing quality and affordability in different geographies”. Please click on the records below to listen to his speeches.
Geoff is glad to share his articles in the UK LEGEND’s Land Policy Bulletin from 2016!
Geoff with his glider on the last day of the annual Dunstable Regionals gliding competition at London Gliding Club!
Funny what one finds when checking through old files. Geoff came across an interview about his career and interests as part of an exhibition being organised in 2015 by a German organisation. The recording is not very good, but there is a transcript.
Geoff recently received a copy of a paper he wrote in 1989 for a conference on ‘Cities and People: Can we plan the future?’ organised by the Development Planning Unit at University College London! Since the conference was held exactly thirty years ago, we are now living in that future. However, to what extent can we […]
We are happy to share the transcript of a BBC television interview Geoff gave on the day in February 2008 that the UN announced that the world was more than 50 percent urban!* Enjoy listening while thinking how rapid the world is urbanizing! *According to the World Bank, the rate has reached to 55 percent […]
Geoff lectured to a great international group of students on the Mundus Urbano master degree course at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany in May 2019. Each student prepared a land tenure and property rights matrix using the GPA format and the completed examples from different cities can be found here!