My work spans a number of academic subjects, including sociology, wellbeing, urban design and planning. It was therefore logical that I found a welcome home within the inclusive discipline of Landscape Architecture.
I began my academic life studying International Tourism with foreign languages (French and Spanish). I specialized in urban tourism in European cities and focused my initial research interests on the impact that winter tourism has on the society and fragile mountain environment of the principality of Andorra and its capital city, Andorra la Vella. This marked the beginning of my growing interest in the influence that the physical context has on residents’ everyday life.
After years working in the private sector, I became increasingly restless to reawaken my academic interest in the socio-spatial context of urban settlements. In 2003, I returned to academia to embark on my PhD while working as Postgraduate Research Assistant & Project Manager on the CityForm-UK: Sustainable Urban Form Consortium project at Oxford Brookes University. CityForm-UK examined the impact that urban form (e.g. density, land use, urban layout and transport) has on social, economic and environmental sustainability.