Paul Balchin is former Reader in Urban Economics and Town Planning at the University of Greenwich . Published widely, he is author and co-author of several books on different aspects of the built environment, most recently, Urban Development in Renaissance Italy (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2008), The Shaping of London (Routledge, 2018), and The Development of Cities in Northern and Central Italy during the Renaissance (Matador, 2019).
