Michael Mattingly

You Can't Always Get What You Want (Michael Mattingly)

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A response by Michael Mattingly to the terms of reference provided by an international organisation for the design and delivery of an integrated training package on land governance, gender, and grassroots mechanisms.

Goodbye to Natural Resource Based Livelihoods? Crossing the Rural/Urban Divide (Michael Mattingly)

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Continuing to manage natural resources helps peri-urban people to shift from rural to city-based livelihoods. Natural resource management can continue to be important to rural people while an expanding city or town engulfs them. Michael Mattingly and Pam Gregory present this message in the October 2009 issue of Local Environment (Vol. 4, No. 9). The article arose out of Gregory's analysis and synthesis of 10 years of research on peri-urban livelihoods that was financed by the Natural Resources Systems Programme of the UK's Department for International Development and monitored by Michael Mattingly on behalf of the DPU.

Making land work for the losers: policy responses to the urbanisation of rural livelihoods (Michael Mattingly)

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In International Development Planning Review (vol 31, no 1), Michael Mattingly has speculated on how land policy might reduce the negative impacts of cities on the livelihoods of peri-urban farmers who tend to be poor and especially vulnerable to change. Using the findings of 10 years of research on peri-urban livelihoods in developing countries, financed by the Natural Resources Systems Programme of the UK Government Department for International Development which he advised, he assembled evidence of how land can figure in the changes to rural livelihoods.

Successful land delivery for low income housing in Iran (Michael Mattingly)

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Michael Mattingly, Hamid Majedi (DPU PhD 1996) and Ramin Keivani (DPU PhD 1993) have recently published an account in Urban Studies of Iran's little-known experience in improving access to land for housing through large scale public land banking. Using the research of Hamid Majedi, the article examines the first 10 years of the implementation of a policy that adds to the debate surrounding the widely accepted notion of market-enabling in order to improve low-income housing provision in developing countries. This action of the Government of Iran effectively provided an alternative to land markets that have hitherto failed to serve low-income and even lower middle income households.

Michael MATTINGLY

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After 14 years of international experience as an urban planner in government and consultant organisations, Michael Mattingly gave 29 years to to post-graduate teaching, consultancy, and research at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. He has worked in over 20 countries of Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe. His interests now focus on:
  • urban land planning and urban land management that is innovative;
  • urban development management; and

Michael MATTINGLY

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m.mattingly@dpu-associates.net

Specialisation
Urban land planning and urban land management and capacity building, including training.
Country experience
Vietnam, India, Nepal, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Malaysia; Egypt, Jordan; Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia; Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile; Poland, USA, UK
Languages
English, French (reading only)
Educational and professional qualifications
1961
BS Civil Engineering
1963
MA City Planning
1965-2005
American Institute of Planners, American Institute of Certified Planners


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