He is an alumnus of the doctoral programme at the LSE’s Cities Programme and completed his ESRC-funded PhD there in 2008. This was an ethnographic account of the socio-spatial production of urban public space on London’s South Bank during the ongoing physical transformation of that area. Building on his doctoral studies, Alasdair’s research interests broadly concern the relationship between built form in cities and social practices, and his research to date has centred on public space, public transport and the ways that citizenship is experienced in urban settings. The current research he is working on develops these interests by exploring the fit between sustainable design features of masterplanned developments and the living practices of residents of those developments.