The Cities and International Development (CID) theme focuses on the housing, urban planning, environment and poverty issues facing the rapidly growing cities of the Global South. Recent topics of research have explored the challenges facing low income majorities and the poorest segments of society, the strategies they employ, and effective policy responses
Our empirical work in a broad range of developing countries focuses on some of the most vulnerable in society and has explored:
We are closely involved in policy making, both through drawing policy implications from our empirical work and through working with, and influencing, national and municipal governments and international organisations such as UN-Habitat. For example, CID members have recently been involved in producing a report on “The State of Iraqi Cities 2006/2007” for the Iraqi Government and UN-Habitat, to help establish an empirically-based planning context for the reconstruction of urban Iraq. Currently members are working on developing housing policies for Iraq and Malawi.
The CID theme contributes significantly to the broader research, teaching and learning within the School. CID members are also influential in bringing a broader context to other research themes within GURU. CID members take a leading role in supervising doctoral candidates within the School. Because of our extensive travel and research experience in developing countries, we bring both local and international insight to our supervision. Currently CID members are supervising more than 20 ?? PhD candidates from China, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Thailand. Current CID members have supervised 42 PhDs to successful completion. CID members also deliver a taught postgraduate module on “Planning for Developing Countries”
Our links with many countries provide contexts for students to find bases for research overseas. In recent years we have made it possible for Masters students from Architecture and Planning to carry out research in many countries including China, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Indonesia and India. They have been involved in studies on a variety of topics including disabled Habitat for Humanity’s activities in Kenya, the role of the church in housing provision, transformations and household formation in South Africa, urban villages in China and sustainable development in India.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications –
Hernandez, F., Kellett, P., Allen, L. (eds.) (2009 in press) Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Kellett, P. (2009) ‘Hot and Cold in the Tropics: Ethnographic fieldwork in a squatter settlement’ and ‘La vivienda como fuente de ingreso’ in Amaya Guzman, S, and Uribe de Kellett, A. Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano en el siglo viente uno, London: Continuum, 183-185, 197
Kellett, P. (2009) ‘Advocacy in Anthropology: Active Engagement or Passive Scholarship?’ Durham Anthropology Journal, Vol. 16 (1), 22-31.
Kellett, P and Collins, P. (2009) ‘At Home in Hospital? Competing Constructions of Hospital Environments’ IJAR Archnet: International Journal of Architectural Research, Vol 3 (1) March 2009, 101-115.
Dayratne, R and Kellett, P. (2008) ‘Housing and Home-Making in Low-income Urban Settlements: Sri Lanka and Colombia’ Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol 23, No 1, 53-70.
Kellett, P. (2007) ‘Vivienda Productiva? La casa como sitio de produccion en asentamientos informales’ in Habitarq: Arquitectura-Urbanismo-Sostenibilidad Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Veracruzana-Córdoba, Mexico, Numero 2, 19-32
Kellett, P. and Turgut, H. (eds.) (2006) Culture Space and Time: Traditional Environments, guest editor of special issue of Open House International, Vol.31, No.4.
Kellett, P. and Bishop, W. (2006) ‘Reinforcing Traditional Values: Social, Spatial and Economic Interactions in an Indonesian Kampung’ Open House International, Vol.31, No.4, 58-66.
Shehayeb, D.K.; Turgut Yildiz, H. and Kellett, P. (eds.) (2006) Appropriate Home: Can We Design Appropriate Residential Environments? Cairo: Housing and Building National Research Centre and IAPS-CSBE Culture and Space in the Built Environment Network.
Shehayeb, D.K. and Kellett, P. (2006) ‘Appropriating Domestic Space: Maximising Use Values in Low-income Housing Environments’ ArchCairo: Architectural Studies, issue 2 Winter 2006.
Tipple, G. and Speak, S. (2009) The Hidden Millions: Homelessness in Developing Countries. Oxford, Routledge
Speak, S and A. G. Tipple (2006) “Perceptions, persecution and pity: The limitations of interventions for homelessness” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30, 1: 172-88
Eskemose Andersen, J., J. Andreasen and G. Tipple, 2006, ""The demise of compound houses - consequences for the low income population in Kumasi" RICS Research Paper Vol 6, No. 7, ISBN 978 184219284 1
UN-Habitat, 2006, “Enabling shelter strategies: review of experience from two decades of implementation”, Nairobi, UN-Habitat HS/785/05E, ISBN 92-1-131767-3 (printed version), ISBN 92-1-131543-3 (electronic version). Written with M. Majale.
UN-Habitat, 2006, “Analytical Perspective of Pro-poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks” Nairobi, UN-Habitat (written with Suzanne Speak and Michael Majale). “ UN-Habitat HS/847/06, ISBN: 92-1-131841-6.
Government of Iraq and UN-Habitat (2007) “The State of Iraq Cities Report 2006/2007: Cities in Transition” (Written with Michael Majale, Suzanne Speak and others) UN-Habitat, Nairobi and Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, Republic of Iraq, Baghdad.
Tipple, A. G. and S. Speak, (2006) “Who is homeless in developing countries? Differentiating between inadequately-housed and homeless people”. International Development Planning Review, 28, 1: 57-84.
Tipple, A.G., (2006) “Employment and work conditions in home-based enterprises in four developing countries: do they constitute ‘decent work’?” Work, Employment and Society, 20, 1: 167-179.
Tipple, A. G. and S. Speak, (2006) “Who is homeless in developing countries? Differentiating between inadequately-housed and homeless people”. International Development Planning Review, Vol. 28 No. 1 pp 57-84
Speak, S. and Tipple, G (2006) ‘Perceptions, persecution and pity: The limitations of interventions for homelessness in developing countries’. 2005 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(1), 172-188.
Gough, K., Tipple, A.G. and Napier, M. (2008) "Effect of situational contingencies on Home-Based Enterprises in Ghana and South Africa" in the Family Business in Sub-Saharan Africa ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India: 137-57.
Tipple, A.G., 2006, “Housing, urban vulnerability and sustainability in rapidly-developing cities” Built Environment, 32, 4 (December): 387-99.
Tipple, A.G. and J. Coulson, 2007, “Funding the home-based enterprise: finance and credit in developing country livelihoods” International Development Planning Review, 29 (2): 125-59.
Sengupta, U. and A. G. Tipple, 2007, “The performance of public-sector housing in Kolkata, India, in the post-reform milieu”, Urban Studies 44, 10 (September), 2009-2027.
Chang, Y and G Tipple, 2009 (forthcoming) "Realities of life and housing in a poor neighbourhood in urban China: livelihoods and vulnerabilities in Shanghai Lane, Wuhan", International Development Planning Review, 2.
Selected publications since 2000
Kellett, P., Gilroy, R. and Jackson, S. (2005) ‘Space, identity and choice: Exploring the housing arrangements of older people’ chapter in Martens, B. and Keul, A. (eds.) Designing Social Innovation: Planning, Building, Evaluating, Gottingen: Hogfre and Huber, 291-299.
Kellett, P. (2005) ‘Cinco Impactos Positivos de las Microempresas Domesticas’ en Salas, J. Mejora de Barrios Precarios en Latinoamerica: Elementos de Teoria y Practica, Bogota: Editorial Escala, 123.
Kellett, P. and Tipple, A.G. (2005) ‘Researching domestic space and income generation in developing cities’ chapter in Vestro, D.U., Hurol, Y. and Wilkinson, N., (eds.) Methodologies in Housing Research, London: Urban International Press, 204-221.
Kellett, P. (2005) ‘The Construction of Home in the Informal City’ chapter in Hernandez, F., Millington, M. and Borden, I. (eds.) Transculturation: Cities, Space and Architecture in Latin America, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 22-42.
Kellett, P. (2004) ‘Habitat I and II’ and ‘Housing’ entries in Forsyth, T. (ed) Encyclopedia of International Development, London: Routledge, 305-306, 319-321.
Kellett, P. (2003) ‘Formal Planning in Informal Settlements: A Case study from Latin America’, chapter in Petruccioli, A., Stella, M. and Strappa, G. (eds.) The Planned City?, Bari: Uniongrafica Corcelli Editrice, Vol, II, 399- 404.
Kellett, P. (2003) ‘El espacio domestico y la generacion de ingresos: la casa como sitio de produccion en asentamientos informales’ Scripta Nova: Revista Electronica de Geografia y Ciencias Sociales, Barcelona, No. 146 (110) (http://www.ub.es/geocrit/sn/sn-146.htm)
Kellett, P. (2003) ‘Constructing Informal Place’ in Menin, S. (ed.) Constructing Place: Mind and Matter, London: Routledge, 87-98.
Kellett, P. and Bishop, W. (2003) ‘Work and Home: Spatial Implications of Income Generation in the Domestic Setting’ chapter in Moser, G., Pol, E. et al. (eds.) Places, People and Sustainability, Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe and Huber, 196-208.
Kellett, P. and Moore, J. (2003) 'Routes to Home: Housing and Homelessness in Contrasting Societies' Habitat International, Vol 27 (1), 123-141.
Kellett, P. (2002) ‘The Construction of Home in the Informal City’ Journal of Romance Studies, Special Issue on ‘Spaces of Transculturation: Architecture and Identity in Latin America’, Volume 2, No 3, Winter 2002, 17-31.
Kellett, P., Mothwa, M. and Napier, N. (2002) ‘No Place Like Home: Recording the struggle for housing and work under Apartheid’ Oral History, 30 (2) Autumn 2002, 35-448.
Turgut, H. and Kellett, P. (eds.) (2002) Traditional Environments in a New Millenium: Definining Principles and Professional Practice Istanbul Technical University.
Kellett, P. (2002) ‘House, Home and Enterprise: Environmental impacts of home-based income generating activities’ Bulletin of People Environment Studies, No 21 Spring, 12-13.
Tipple, A.G., Coulson, J. and Kellett, P. (2002) ‘The Effect of Home Based Enterprises on the Residential Environment in Developing Countries’ chapter in Romaya, S. and Rakodi, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Urban Settlements: Approaches and Case Studies in the Developing World, London: ITDG
Kellett, P., Bishop, W., and Tipple, A.G. (2002) ‘Networks of Exchange and Co-operation:Reinforcing Traditional Values through Economic Activities in an Indonesian Kampung’ in Turgut, H. and Kellett, P. (eds.) (2002) Traditional Environments in a New Millenium: Definining Principles and Professional Practice, Istanbul Technical University, 63-68.
Gough, K and Kellett, P. (2001) ‘Housing Consolidation and Home-based Income Generation: Evidence from Self-Help Settlements in Two Colombian Cities’ Cities: International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, Vol. 18, No.4, 235-247.
El-Masri, S and Kellett, P (2001) ‘Post-War Reconstruction: Participatory Approaches to Rebuilding Damaged Villages of Lebanon’, Habitat International, Vol. 25, No.4, 535-557.
Kellett, P. (2000) ‘The Concept of Home in Informal Housing’ in Unugur, S.M. and H. Turgut (eds.) Culture and Space in the Home Environment: Critical Evaluations and New Paradigms, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, 131-137.
Kellett, P. (2000) 'Voices from the Barrio: Oral Testimony and Informal Housing Processes in Latin America' Third World Planning Review, Vol. 22, No2, 189-205.
Kellett, P. and Tipple, A.G. (2000) 'The Home as Workplace: A Study of Income-generating Activities within the Domestic Setting' Environment and Urbanisation. Vol.12, No.1, 203-213.
Kellett, P. and Tavernor, W.F.T. (2000) 'Procesos de Recuperacion del Patrimonio Urbano: El Centro de la Ciudad de Newcastle upon Tyne, Inglaterra' Urbano, Universidad del Bio Bio, Chile, Vol.2, 39-42.
Kellett, P. and Smith, J. (2000) ‘Working at Home in Jahangir Puri, a Squatter Settlement in Delhi’ Geofile, April 2000.
Recent projects
CID research projects in recent years include
Homelessness in developing countries. ESCOR, Department for International Development, DfID,
Environmental Effects of Home Based Enterprises, Department for International Development, DfID
Environmental Effects of the Golden Jubilee Poverty Alleviation Programme in Punjab, India, British Council
Transformations of Government built Low Cost Housing as generators of shelter and employment. Overseas Development Administration, Her Majesty's Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
Key Note presentations and invitations
Tipple, A.G., 2006, “Ways forward for housing supply in developing countries: an oblique view” Invited Lead Paper at the International Conference on Built Environment: Innovation, Policy and Sustainable Development, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, 24-26 January.
Tipple, A.G. and S.E. Speak, 2006 “Attitudes to interventions in homelessness: insights from an international study” Invited Conference Paper at Housing Washington 2006, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Seattle WA, 11-12 September.
Tipple, A.G., 2006, “Housing, urban vulnerability and sustainability in rapidly-developing cities” Invited Keynote paper in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICHS2006), Penang, Malaysia, September 18-19.
Tipple, A.G., 2008, “Resource efficiency in housing supply” Keynote Paper at the 3rd National Conference for New Thinking in Urban and Landscape Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 7-9 November.
Tipple, A.G., 2008, “Opportunities for employment and poverty alleviation arising from
housing development” Keynote Paper at the Semana Internacional de Investigation, Faculdad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Centrale de Venezuela, Caracas, 29th Sept – 3rd October.
Graham Tipple is an Honorary Professor in Wuhan University, Hubei Province, China.
Kellett, P. (2008) ‘Contemporary Vernacular: Reframing Popular Housing Processes’ Keynote paper at the First International Conference on Zagros Traditional Settlements, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, April/May 2008.
Kellett, P. (2007) 'Housing, Poverty and Home-Based Enterprise' keynote paper presented at the 20th NOFUA Conference: Nordic Forum for Development Studies at Schools of Architecture: Architecture and Poverty Eradication, Stockholm, February 2007.