S2 Ep4: Gavin Daly – Exploring the role of planners as political subjects in cities Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Liverpool

Gavin Daly, a PhD student at the Heseltine Institute, joins Abi & Ronnie in today’s episode. Gavin currently works as a Senior Project Expert at the European Spatial Planning Observatory Network. His research explores the role that alternative planning discourses can have in the context of global environmental challenges, seeking to identify the place that grass-roots community movements can play in institutional change.

In the episode we discuss how he came to be involved in this research, the influence that his previous career in planning has on his work, and how the crises of the last decade (including the financial crash of 2008/9, austerity and the COVID19 pandemic) make visible some of the detrimental consequences that capital-led growth projects have on urban spaces and their populations.

You can read some of Gavin’s recent work here https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/?s=Gavin+Daly and you can contact him via Twitter: @gavinjdaly or via email: gdaly@liverpool.ac.uk

Get in touch with us if you'd like to be involved! Contact Abi via Twitter: @abioconnor_ or email: aoconnor@liverpool.ac.uk & Ronnie @asenseofplace1or R.D.Hughes@liv.ac.uk