Lichfield Lecture: Leading economist exonerates planners from new build shortfall

So began Christine Whitehead HonMRTPI, emeritus professor of housing economics at the London School of Economics, who was this year’s choice to present the RTPI’s annual Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture.Perhaps appropriately for World Town Planning Day, ‘Are Planners Really the Problem?’ was the lecture’s provocative title. And in a forensically structured presentation,........