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Michael is an urban economist and planner who started his professional life working on the master plans of new towns, Milton Keynes and Peterborough and on cost benefit analysis and urban economic studies. His research and teaching interests focus increasingly on land and real estate markets, with a central interest in how the built environment is produced. Dealing with this subject requires a strongly holistic approach to social sciences, integrating economic analysis with sociological, political and architectural considerations. He is at present much involved in London’s critical debates on planning since it regained a city-wide planning authority, and on making sense of the current crisis.
