Policy and Action

Colin Fudge is an Architect and Town Planner, Professor of Urban Futures and Design, RMIT University and Visiting Professor at numerous universities around the world. He has maintained his academic and public policy work in relation to sustainable urban futures through research, postgraduate innovations, partnership working, advisory roles and actions on the ground. He was Vice President of RMIT University, Melbourne, and set up a new university, RMIT Europe from scratch in Barcelona in 2012. This major innovation for RMIT University has involved major partnership and collaborative engagement across Europe with governments, universities, industries, cities, and not for profit organisations and substantial linkages between Europe and Australasia. As well as working in universities he has worked in government in the UK (Central Government and cities: Camden, London, Bath) and Sweden, (SIPU and SIDA, The development of the civil service in Zimbabwe) the European Commission, and for the State Government in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fudge chaired the EU Urban Environment Expert Group (1993 – 2005), was the main author of the European Commission book, European Sustainable Cities (1996), wrote the EU Fifth Framework for Research, chaired the EU Urban Research panel and has been awarded 12 EU research grants. He was appointed as the Urban Environment Special Advisor to the European Commission President, Jacques Delors in 1994. He worked as a Special Adviser to the EU Climate KIC in 2016/17. Professor Fudge has contributed through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on public policy formulation and implementation; cities; sustainable development, adaptation, and transition to climate change; public health; demographic change; and urban design. He has won over 45 research grants and has examined 36 PhDs. He has led European and Australian university and city transformations to sustainable, low carbon futures. This has been recognised through the awarding of the King Carl Gustav XVI Royal Professorship of Environmental Science by the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2002 and the award of an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates for his work on public policy and sustainable cities.He has written eleven books, more than 160 articles and reports, numerous book chapters and presented more than 150 conference papers. In 2020 he edited a Special Issue of Cities & Health Journal on Transforming cities and health; with Holger Wallbaum he wrote the keynote paper for the World Sustainable Built Environments Conference, and has followed that with research, International workshops and foresight publications on transformation to meet the UN SDGs; and will publish a book in 2026 Architecture+Nature+Climate+Cities: regenerative thinking, transforming policy and practice.Colin Fudge has led major building, urban design and city transformation projects in London, Melbourne, Saigon, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bath, Bristol, and Stockholm. He was the Southwest of England Commissioner for CABE and set up the SW England Design Review Panel. He has also led estates strategies and their implementation for universities in Bristol, Melbourne, Saigon and Hanoi, Hong Kong, Barcelona, and Singapore.

Original Review of Policy and Action:‘The book has been carefully edited so that the contributions do, indeed, focus on their common theme and there are valuable introductory and concluding chapters by the editors. The book has benefitted greatly from the apparently good team spirit among the contributors, their impressive command of the American literature and their wide experience of the practical world...There is no doubt that it is a valuable addition to the literature on policy analysis. It contains a wealth of information and references…’ Richard A. Chapman, International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol 21 (1983).

• Part 1: Introductory Review Examining the Policy-Action Relationship Part 2: The Case Studies. Introduction. 1. Implementing Public Expenditure Cuts 2. Local Authorities and the Community Land Scheme 3. The Public Implementation of Private Housing Policy: Relations Between Government and the Building Societies in the 1970s 4. Implementing Employment Policies in a District Authority 5. Winning An Election and Gaining Control: The Formulation and Implementation of a ‘Local’ Political Manifesto 6. Development Control: A Case Study of Discretion in Action 7. Briefing for Implementation: The Missing Link? 8. Developing Better Services for the Mentally Ill: An Exploration of Learning and Change in Complex Agency Networks 9. The Policy-Implementation Distinction: A Quest for Rational Control? 10. Implementing the Results of Evaluation Studies Part 3: Policy and Action. Reconstructing the Field of Analysis