Tony Crook (town planner) explained

Anthony Derek Howell Crook, CBE, FAcSS, FRTPI, FRSA, is a British academic and emeritus professor of town and regional planning at the University of Sheffield.

Career

Anthony Derek Howell Crook[1] graduated from the University of Bristol in 1965 with a geography degree, before completing a master of philosophy degree in town planning at University College London in 1967; he then spent two years as a research officer in the Greater London Council's Planning Department. Crook was appointed a lecturer in town and country planning at the University of Sheffield in 1968 and became a Chartered Town Planner in 1977.[2] [3] [4] In 1989, the University of Sheffield awarded him with a doctor of philosophy degree for his thesis "Improving private rented sector: the impact of changes in ownership and of local authority policies."[5] Crook became a professor of town and country planning at the University of Sheffield, where he was also head of the Department of Town Planning until 1999, when he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (serving until 2008). In 2010, he retired and remained at Sheffield as an emeritus professor.[3] [6] [7]

Crook is a former chair of the homelessness charity Shelter (retiring in 2013),[8] deputy chair of Orbit Housing Group, and in 2017 was appointed deputy chair of the Construction Industry Council.[9]

Honours and awards

In 2001, Crook was elected a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (FRTPI) and in 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[10] The University of Sheffield awarded him with an honorary doctor of letters (LittD) degree in 2013 and in the 2014 New Year Honours, Crook was appointed a CBE "for services to housing and charitable governance".[11]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/60728/supplement/8 The London Gazette
  2. Morag McDermot, Governing Independence and Expertise: The Business of Housing Associations (Hart Publishing, 2010), p. 169.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20040625190909/http://www.shef.ac.uk/trp/staff/crook/index.html "Professor A D H Crook"
  4. http://cic.org.uk/admin/resources/t.crook.pdf "Professor Tony Crook"
  5. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.385742 "Improving private rented sector : the impact of changes in ownership and of local authority policies."
  6. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/usp/news/crookcbe-1.337743 "TRP Emeritus Professor awarded a CBE for services to housing policy and research"
  7. http://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies2/refservice.svc/GetCaseStudyPDF/22929 "Impact Case Study: University of Sheffield: Improving Policy on Planning Obligations and the Community Infrastructure
  8. https://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/924416/2013-14_Shelter_Annual_Report_and_Accounts.pdf Helping More People: Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts for the Year ended 31 March 2014
  9. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/tony-crook-chairman-construction-industry-council-1.711382 "Emeritus Professor Tony Crook appointed as new Deputy Chairman of the Construction Industry Council"
  10. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/usp/staff/tony_crook "Professor ADH Tony Crook CBE BA MPhil PhD"
  11. http://calendar.dept.shef.ac.uk/calendar/21_hon_grad.pdf "Honorary Graduates"

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