Simon Huston

Coventry University | CU · Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting

This research investigated the significance of learning dispositif (LD) and emotional attachment (EA) on perceived learning success (LS) across a diaspora of Western, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Chinese student cohorts. Foucault’s LD captures the disparate socio-cultural contexts, institutional milieus and more or less didactic teaching styl...

The Coronavirus pandemic has raised questions about public health system fragility or lack of health phronesis (practical wisdom). The UK is one of the unhealthiest developed nations on the planet with over 35% of its population projected to be obese by 2025. Notwithstanding, local sports infrastructure is patchy, raising the spectre of ‘accumulati...

Academic letter that provides brief synopsis of forthcoming monograph on strategic insights from the French Indochina War

Every year the global financial system sends trillions of dollars to finance environmental destruction, but the climate crisis forces change. Notwithstanding vested interests and the unrecognised paradox of adopting environmental business strategies, the implementation of sustainability accounting and reporting (SAR) is imperative to catalyse econo...

There seems to be a crisis in education and research. The education landscape looks fragmented, expensive and yet fails millions. A common perception is that, armed with cultural and social capital, the ‘sharp elbows of the middle classes’ game a commodified system to amass credentials. The media rails against learning institutions that inflate gra...

The legacy form and structure of Chinese Maoist towns enabled the ordered development of their modern equivalents but, unlike Soviet architectural styles, had limited global influence. Until recently, China's focus was rural but many of these projects failed. Myopic and short-term capitalist proclivities rather than communist planning or Confucian...

Purpose Kuala Lumpur (KL) emerged as the capital of the newly independent Federation of Malayan States in 1957 with a population of 316,000. Over the next 60 years, the city expanded into a major urban regional conurbation. It now covers an area of 2,790 km ² and has a population of around 7.7 million. In the last two decades, market-driven, fast-t...

Data description that accompanies 4 working data files to support analysis for Bathing Facilities and Health Phronesis monograph

Data for 120 year time series of English pool construction with macroeconomic and population changes

Heath phronesis data: cross-sectional

Data for 120 year time series of English pool construction with macroeconomic and population changes

This research investigated the significance of learning dispositif (LD) and emotional attachment (EA) on perceived learning success (LS) across a diaspora of Western, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Chinese student cohorts. Foucault’s LD captures the disparate socio-cultural contexts, institutional milieus and more or less didactic teaching styl...

The challenges of peri-urban housing affordability and food security differ in developing and developed countries. Tighter governance, orderly land redistribution, fairer planning and administrative systems can improve housing prospects. Nutritionally, cooperative foodscapes are worth exploring. In developed countries, privatisation has left a depl...

Abstract: This research investigated the significance of learning dispositif (LD) and emotional attachment (EA) on perceived learning success (LS) across a diaspora of Western, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Chinese student cohorts. Foucault’s LD captures the disparate socio-cultural contexts, institutional milieus and more or less didactic tea...

Investigates different modes of land value capture and their implementation with European examples

Sustainable development calls for the wise use of groundwater resources. Of particular concern is saline intrusion into productive agricultural land, which is contiguous with densely populated coastal settlements. To reverse saline intrusion in such coastal regions, information about the groundwater depth in terms of its spatio-temporal variability...

The role of Real Estate Open Data Systems ('RE-ODS') is investigated by identifying and reflecting on the real estate backdrop, transparency initiatives and issues in Sydney, London and Dubai. Significant capital flows into these iconic cities have stimulated their housing markets and accentuated their position as global trade, tourism, financial a...

Mixed methods analysis of UK property market situaton in early 2018: structured qualitative expert review at global, national macro and real estate submarkets spatial scales, triangulated against brief preliminary technical analysis, ARIMA and simple structural macro models. The result – global markets recovered, muted UK growth but mishandling of...

The paper reviews the notion of Land Value Capture (LVC), its advantages and disadvantages and relevance for urban growth management. LVC encompasses a wide range of mechanisms, applied in very diverse contexts to monetize ‘windfall’ gains, accruing to landowners because of growth, infrastructure or place-making projects. Despite widespread convict...

As human populations continue to expand and migrate to cities, shortages of appropriate affordable dwellings remains a central challenge. After reviewing the backdrop, conundrums and approaches, the chapter outlines a sustainable management for affordable housing (‘SMAH’) framework and investigates developing and developed country contexts. Definit...

The dissemination of robust asset price data can help to improve market efficiency, resource allocation and investment analysis. Beyond commercial decisions, land prices influence housing affordability, food security or low carbon infrastructure. Yet price and return histories for farmland in England are fragmented. To provide perspective, a long f...

The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures. Smart Urban Regeneration brings together institutional, planning and real estate insights into an innovative regeneration framework for academics, students and property professionals. Starting by identifying key urban issues within the historical u...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the duration of the UK commercial property cycles, their volatility and persistence to gauge future market direction. Design/methodology/approach The study employs a novel approach to dissect cycles in a form of a three-step algorithm. First, the Hodrick-Prescott de-trends the selected variables. Seco...

Smart urban development: visions, institutions and mechanisms unpacks the ‘smart’ notion and explores compelling urban issues for general readers, students or professionals in real estate, land management or planning. The book has three parts: • Future visions • Institutions • Mechanisms

Two significant issues confront UK environmental/energy policy. The first is relatively low energy performance of poorer housing stock. The second issue is mal-investment in inappropriate new housing developments, often on the fringe of existing regional settlements. Much of the bottom end of the current UK housing stock was formerly local governme...

Purpose – The commercial property market is complex, but the literature suggests that simple models can forecast it. To confirm the claim, the purpose of this paper is to assess a set of models to forecast UK commercial property market. Design/methodology/approach – The employs five modelling techniques, including Autoregressive Integrated Moving...

Despite a burgeoning literature, the role of bohemians in the urban milieu and in initiatives toward regeneration remains contested. To expedite productive enquiry, we present a thorough literature review, a short commentary on bohemian phenomena and suggested readings. Since qualitative sources dominate the field, the review is structured, rather...

Regional conurbations will play an important role in economic development over the next fifty years but, after decades of neglect, many are ill prepared to cope with impending growth pressures. Some regional settlements aspire to become 'knowledge hubs' via university expansion. However, the metamorphosis of conservative regional market towns into...

The dissemination of robust real estate data can help to improve market efficiency and investment analysis. To provide a perspective on property prices, a long series is vital. While long commercial and residential real estate data series are available, agricultural land is less well served. Comparable series describing long-term price and return h...

The research sketches the notion of the 'aerotropolis' or airport-focused 'smart' city development. Rapid expansion of air traffic is the backdrop but major environmental concerns and polemic surrounds Heathrow’s mooted expansion. The paper outlines a structured research pathway for a complete answer to the airport gateway problem.

Many cities are dispersed, disconnected and vulnerable to oil price rises. In contemporary urban policy, Transport Orientated Development (TOD) is a popular solution but remains theoretically conflicted and practically expensive. TODs are walkable precincts, centred on train or other public transit systems with dual logistical and place-enhancement...

The development of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into a regional trade, tourism, finance and logistics hub has transformed its real estate markets. However, development has been accompanied by significant real estate prices variance. UAE residential market values (MV) are exposed to fluctuations in capital flows and migration which, in turn, are a...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate Lithuanian house price changes. Its twin motivations are the importance of information on future house price movements to sector stakeholders and the limited number of related Lithuanian property market studies. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs ARIMA modelling approach. It assesses whether...

Dr Arvydas Jadevicius and Dr Simon Huston, lecturers in real estate and finance in the School of Real Estate and Land Management (RELM) at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU), have produced a report comparing the 2015 property market predictions for Gloucestershire with the rest of the UK. The report examines the most recent property market dat...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to sketch the UK housing backdrop, review the student private rented sector (PRS) and assess the experience of post-graduate university student tenants in the PRS. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review puts the issues of student-PRS responsiveness into context and helps to untangle some UK housing...

Income capitalisation is a widely used in commercial property for valuation, development appraisal or for project feasibility analysis. As a decision-making tool, its technical and philosophical limitations are manifest but often overlooked. Overblown feasibility analyses and inflated project valuations can bankrupt companies, usurp ecological comm...

Real estate is multidimensional. It is an asset and but also a private and public good. Its value, the services it provides or enables and its external costs are spatially conditioned but influenced by fluctuating economic fortunes, geo or local politics and capital markets. Real estate is heterogeneous in forms and functions and embedded in comple...

The average house price in Cheltenham is 66 percent higher than in Gloucester, with the average home price in the city being £200,444, compared to £332,328 in the regency town. The figures, from Home.co.uk, form part of a report from the Royal Agricultural University. One bedroom properties in Cheltenham were 41 per cent higher than the national av...

Media attention is now focused on the functional performance of the UK housing market system. Concerns include regressive tax, dysfunctional subsidies, affordability, London investment euphoria, and private rented sector (PRS). In England, renting has reverted to a mainstream tenure form but, among university students, PRS dissatisfaction appears s...

Cities around the world are under pressure from population growth, frenetic global economic restructuring, and climatic perturbations. Some, like London, attract an excess of speculative, momentum or tax-informed inward investment to finance their intensification. Provincial towns, on the other hand, which sustain extractive metropolii, can wither...

Development of Transit Oriented Development precincts in the Australian context has been hindered by several obstacles. The main challenges to be addressed are land amalgamation issues around train stations and the lack of governance arrangements to facilitate the delivery of TODs. Our paper identifies the main factors contributing to the effective...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review sustainable planning literature and investigate a major development in an Australian regional city, looking for broad sustainable insights to improve urban growth management. Design/methodology/approach – First, the authors sketched the backdrop to Ipswich and looked for the drivers propelling its r...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss the major and auxiliary types of cycles found in the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The existence of cycles within economy and its sub-sectors has been studied for a number of years. In the wake of the recent cyclical downturn, interest in cycles has increased. To mitigate future risks, scholars and i...

Globally, regional cities will bear the brunt of future economic growth. Planning foresight and intelligent policy is needed to dampen malignant growth proclivities and, instead, facilitate sustainable urban development ('SUD'). But policy makers can struggle to conceptualise, never mind enforce, a comprehensive approach to SUD. Notwithstanding, it...

Historical conspectus of urban antiquity in form of novel set in reign or Emperor Justinian. Locations include Alexandria, Constantinople (Chrysopolis), Antioch (Syria), Daras and Nsibis (Persian frontier district), Durostorum (Danubian frontier), Sarmizegetusa (Dacia), Carthage (Africa Proconsularis) and, in Italy Rome, Capua and Ravenna.

‘Smart cities’ are in vogue but range across ontology, processes and prospects. Antiquity provides some insights for a smart urban strategy, whether gleaned from the conduct of seminal battles or abstracted from the layout and governance of Constantinople. Alexander of Macedon was a smart commander but Byzantium was the world's most resilient city.

Purpose - We explore the growth patterns and development trends of vertical mixed use (VMU) developments in a variety of cities. VMUs are defined as structures with two or more revenue producing uses or land use activities on a single site. One view is that sustainable city development requires densification via VMU construction on brown field site...

Investigates how general systems theory (GST) could contribute to a more rational risk management (RM) for indirect property investment. The paper is organized into three parts. In the first, theoretical one, a robust systems RM framework is developed. In its second, empirical, section RM policy and practice is reviewed in a selection of prominent...

The Transit Orientated Development (TOD) model is an international model that can potentially address some of the sustainability problems of Australian cities. However, development of TOD precincts in the Australian context has been hindered by several obstacles. The main challenges to be addressed are land amalgamation issues around train stations...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the limitations and potential usefulness of a “knowledge city” concept as diversification vehicle for property investors. Design/methodology/approach The paper first dissects the “knowledge city” concept and then investigates whether it inoculates against economic turbulence as measured by growth...

Purpose - To reviews sustainable planning literature and investigate a major development in an Australian regional city, looking for broad sustainable insights to improve urban growth management. Design/methodology/approach - First we sketch the backdrop to Ipswich and look for the drivers propelling its rapid growth. We then generate a sustainabil...

Investigates iconic office development in regional town using multiple multi-criteria to asses its regeneration credentials

‘Smart cities’ are in vogue but range across ontology, processes and prospects. Antiquity provides some insights for a smart urban strategy, whether gleaned from the conduct of seminal battles or abstracted from the layout and governance of Constantinople. Alexander of Macedon was a smart commander but Byzantium was the world's most resilient city.

Income capitalization is a widely used in commercial property for valuation, development appraisal or for project feasibility analysis. As a decision-making tool, its technical and philosophical limitations are manifest but often overlooked. If bungled, capitalization, can lead to ‘white elephant’ projects, investment losses, corporate collapse. To...

Investigates how the dialectic between planners and property students can spark debate and enrich learning outcomes for group coursework projects

The ‘knowledge city’ (‘KC’) enriches regional development with institutional and environmental domains. Its competitors in the new-economy regeneration discourse include the ‘creative’, ‘green’, ‘intelligent’ and ‘smart’ cities. All suggest planning foresight but contention surrounds their philosophical underpinnings and specific recipes are disput...

Many cities are dispersed, disconnected and vulnerable to oil price rises. In contemporary urban policy, Transport Orientated Development (TOD) is a popular solution but remains theoretically conflicted and practically expensive. TODs are walkable precincts, centred on train or other public transit systems with dual logistical and place-enhancement...

The term ‘smart’ and ‘strategy’ are widespread but convey different notions across disciplines. Unsurprisingly, when ‘smart strategy’ is applied its meanings vary with context. It is therefore instructive to look for some cross-disciplinary insights with a view to sketching a smart strategic framework. I investigate an, albeit eclectic, sample of m...

Dutch disease refers to the negative consequences of a resource boom, including the fragmentation of property markets. In Australia, some mining-exposed regional cities are under demographic and housing pressure. Gladstone in Queensland is a city struggling to digest mineral-induced growth. Dutch disease also hurts competitiveness in fringe urban l...