Contact details:
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7955 6003
Fax:  +44 (0)20 7955 6951
e-mail:  l.c.turcu@lse.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,  R5z29B

  Research interests:

• Housing - housing policy and development; housing markets; housing for ethnic minorities (Roma)

• Regeneration - urban development and renewal; regeneration impact; neighbourhood regeneration; social aspects of the built environment

• Sustainability - sustainable built environment, sustainable communities; measuring/assessing sustainability

 Current research projects:

• Assessing the impact of urban regeneration on community sustainability; empirical evidence from three Housing Market Renewal areas in the UK

 Selected publications:

• A story for children about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Illustrations). Colouring book about children's rights. Neascu, L (eds), Independent Romanian Society for Human Rights (SIRDO), Bucharest, 1994.

• Housing patterns in post-communist Romania. Housing Report, School of Architecture 'Ion Mincu', Bucharest, 1999.

• Housing...another fashionable topic? (in Romanian: Locuinta...un alt subiect la moda?). ConstructDesign, 1(8) 39-42, Bucharest, 2000.

• In the quest of sustainable communities: a theoretical framework to assess the impact of urban regeneration on community sustainability (2009) in Tsenkova, S (Ed.), Planning strategies for sustainable cities, University of Calgary: Calgary

• Regenerating urban areas (in Romanion: Zone urbane revalorificate. ConstrucDesing, 1(7), 34-35, Bucharest, 2000.

• Sustainable regeneration, sustainable communities or both? Findings from regenerating areas of low demand housing in the UK (forthcoming), Urban Studies, under revision

•     The Built Environment and Health Inequalities (2009), Report for the Marmot Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010, UCL: London

• The Housing Conditions of the Roma Minority in Eastern Europe. LSE Housing Report, London School of Economics, London, 2001

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