Jacqueline Bleicher
Academic and research departments
Centre for Environment and Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering.About
My research project
Sustainable communities urban transformation approachesI’m keen to discover if any recent urban transformation approaches or a synthesis of urban transformation approaches will address the dimensions of Sustainable Communities.
“Communities need a sustainable, inclusive and green recovery for people and the planet. That means dealing with the existing challenges of how cities are planned, managed and financed, and ensuring their development is compatible with the goal of net zero emissions by 2050.” (UN Habitat 2020)
Supervisors
I’m keen to discover if any recent urban transformation approaches or a synthesis of urban transformation approaches will address the dimensions of Sustainable Communities.
“Communities need a sustainable, inclusive and green recovery for people and the planet. That means dealing with the existing challenges of how cities are planned, managed and financed, and ensuring their development is compatible with the goal of net zero emissions by 2050.” (UN Habitat 2020)
My qualifications
I am a registered and Chartered architect with the Architects Registration Board and the Royal Institute of British Architects respectively. I am also an Associate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. My Masters in Urban Design covered spatial Planning and is from Oxford Brookes University.
I have relevant professional practice experience in the built environment, specialising in the areas of Urban Design and Masterplanning, real estate development, planning and policy development and architecture in both the public and the private sector.
Affiliations and memberships
I co launched the Creative Community Placemakers Network (CCPN) a multi ethnic, multidisciplinary, age-inclusive network to bring professionals and community members together around placemaking. I am a Design Council Associate, a Living Space Project Associate, a RE Women Committee member, a Leader in the Placemaking Europe Network, a Paradigm member, a BFA member, a BAME Planners Network Member and a Women in Architecture member.
Business, industry and community links
As an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Champion, I co- developed and delivered with Dr. Claudine Best, a Webinar Series on “Race and Place” for Built Environment organisations. I’m a Co-author of the Real Estate Women’s Manifesto for an antiracist Built Environment, which invites signatories to become more inclusive, diverse and equitable in their practice, supply chain and legacy.
News
In the media
ResearchResearch interests
My research interests include:
Sustainable Communities
Spatial Sustainability
Urban Transformation Approaches
Equitable, just and inclusive Societies
Multiculturalism
Research projects
Practice based Research
Post the UK Covid-19 Lock down, in response to a placemaking competition, we the former Directors and former Associates of Global Urban Design CIC, developed 6 principles for future communities. The principles were based on online survey feedback on homes and neighbourhoods, from primarily London residents.
I tested the principles on an urban brownfield site in Southwark London. I produced a concept proposal for a ten-minute, walkable compact, mixed use, complete, liveable neighbourhood. I designed a place with a new significant green space at its heart and added 6000 new homes while retaining existing land uses. The concept proposal encompassed 50.2 hectares or 124.2 acres. I used SketchUp to design and create visuals and a 3D model of the scheme. This experiment was pivotal to my seeking to conduct further research on Urban Transformation Approaches for Sustainable Communities, as a post graduate researcher.
Research interests
My research interests include:
Sustainable Communities
Spatial Sustainability
Urban Transformation Approaches
Equitable, just and inclusive Societies
Multiculturalism
Research projects
Practice based Research
Post the UK Covid-19 Lock down, in response to a placemaking competition, we the former Directors and former Associates of Global Urban Design CIC, developed 6 principles for future communities. The principles were based on online survey feedback on homes and neighbourhoods, from primarily London residents.
I tested the principles on an urban brownfield site in Southwark London. I produced a concept proposal for a ten-minute, walkable compact, mixed use, complete, liveable neighbourhood. I designed a place with a new significant green space at its heart and added 6000 new homes while retaining existing land uses. The concept proposal encompassed 50.2 hectares or 124.2 acres. I used SketchUp to design and create visuals and a 3D model of the scheme. This experiment was pivotal to my seeking to conduct further research on Urban Transformation Approaches for Sustainable Communities, as a post graduate researcher.
Teaching
Presently, I am not teaching.
Publications
Additional publications
Bleicher, J. (2019). VALUING THE COMMUNITY AS AN EXPERT IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT REVITALISATION PROCESS. [online]
Global Urban Design (2019) HAB PLACEMAKING WORKSHOP REPORT. [online] Available at: http://globalurbandesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HAB-Workshop-Report.pdf
Global Urban Design (2019) Regenerating an Ailing Business District. [online] Available at: http://globalurbandesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CBD-Article-J.Bleicher.pdf
Placemaking Europe. (2019). Our City? Countering Exclusion in Public Space. [online] Available at: https://placemaking-europe.eu/listing/our-city-countering-exclusion-in-public-space/