Institution: Westminster University
Funding: Westminster University Studentship
Supervisors: Jeremy Till, Peter Barber and Murray Fraser
Completed: 2013
Awards: Shortlisted for RIBA Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis 2015
Doctoral thesis investigating the implications of density for the design of new urban housing; the way it is measured, and how it is used. The research was developed out of a detailed study into the history of density as a measurement and device used in planning. It also drew on a study of a number of housing schemes situated in the rapidly densifying area of Poplar, in East London. The thesis highlighted some of the compromises that come about through a preoccupation with numeric densities and site capacities and proposed alternative ways of decribing density in terms of physical and social conditions.
