Academic Papers
My research interests include gender-transformative urban planning and regenerative design approaches to cultural landscapes, eco-communities, mining cities, informal communities, transition and ghost towns, and post-war regenerative reconstruction. Explore my academic papers published in international and European journals since 2016.
Women and planning: a rhizomatic movement in urbanism
Town Planning Review, pp 1-18 27 September 2026
May East & Karen Horwood
Maximising the Edges of Natural and Human Systems: The Case for Sociotones.
Mapping the ‘Presency’ of Women in Cities.
A Competency Framework to Assess and Activate Education for Sustainable Development: Addressing the UN SDG 4.7 Challenge
Sustainability 2019, 11(10), 2832
Giangrande, N., White, R., East, M., Clarke, T., Jackson, R., Coste. M.S. & Lopes, G.P.
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the SDGs: Community‐led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies
Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 30(1)
Ana M. Esteves, Audley Genus, Tom Henfrey, May East & Gil Penha-Lopes
Community-led approaches and interventions for the regeneration of abandoned towns in southern Italy.
Current thinking on sustainable human habitat: the Findhorn Ecovillage case
Rising cities: continuity, innovation and deliberation of Vauban District, Freiburg, Germany
Regenerative strategies for climate justice
Design for sustainable cultural landscapes - A whole-systems framework
Ecocycles Journal 2021, 7(1), 1–13.
May East, Ki Utara Pinheiro Gibsone & Bernard Combes
Community-led approaches and interventions for the regeneration of abandoned towns in southern Italy
