Leah TILLEMANS
PhD student
Key words
Urban development, urban planning, real estate markets, institutional regimes, negotiation, property rights, institutional economics
Research area
Leah Tillemans has a master degree in geography in the area of urban studies from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. An important part of her studies was devoted to the concept of urban sustainability, and in particular to methods for evaluating sustainability and for integrating measures at a planning level. This led her to realize the importance of land management in the success of urban planning strategies. After graduating in august 2009, she began a PhD at the Institute of Land Use Policies and Human Environment, University of Lausanne in the group concerned with land use policies under the supervision of J. Ruegg (University of Lausanne) and R. Prélaz-Droux (University of applied sciences HEIG-VD).
Her current research addresses the legal and financial issues of land management with respect to the implementation of planning goals. Focus is on the relations between private (landowners, developers, investors) and public stakeholders responsible for urban development. Topics of interest are for example the way in which planning gain is dealt with and negotiated, or the impact of different land management regimes on the conduct of urban development projects. One of the goals is to explicit the le role of more « relational » variables (information, type of organization, actor-network relationships, etc). These issues are developed as part of her PhD research, as well as under the framework of the COST action TU602 Land management for urban dynamics.
Publications
Tillemans L., Ruegg J., Prélaz-Droux R. Weber P. (Forthcoming 2010). «Making land-use fit to planning goals: weaknesses and opportunities within the Swiss land management régime», Cost TU0602- Land management for urban dynamics, WG 1 Report.
Weber P., Prélaz-Droux R., Ruegg J. and Tillemans L. (Forthcoming 2011). "Supply enough land at the right place and at the right time with land management approaches. The answers given by the canton of Vaud, Switzerland". Cost TU0602-Land management for urban dynamics, WG 2 Report.
Niksic M., Norte Pinto N, Tillemans L. (2010). «Redefining planning goals to improve land mobilization». COST Action TU0602 - Land Management and Mobilization in Europe: Regimes, Policies and Processes - A Comparison Framework Applied to Gland, Switzerland. Ed. Lachance-Bernard N., Pinto N.N., Havel B. and Ploegmakers H., Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Lausanne, pages 76-90
Lachance-Bernard N., Tillemans L. and Weber P. (2010). «Introduction to the Gland Case Study» COST Action TU0602 - Land Management and Mobilization in Europe: Regimes, Policies and Processes - A Comparison Framework Applied to Gland, Switzerland (opcit). pages 11-23.
Ploegmaker H., Tillemans L., Lachance-Bernard N. Norte Pinto N., Havel B. (2010). «Gland case study’s concluding remarks». COST Action TU0602 - Land Management and Mobilization in Europe: Regimes, Policies and Processes - A Comparison Framework Applied to Gland, Switzerland. (opcit) pages 104-109.
Tillemans, L. (2009). Enjeux de l’agglomération fribourgeoise: vers une définition des espaces urbains et une évaluation des potentiels à bâtir dans les communes suburbaines. Mémoire de Master en Géographie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des géosciences et de l’environnement. (Unpublished).
