Wei Yang inaugurated as president of the RTPI

The address was given at a virtual inauguration event because of the Covid-19 pandemic on 20 January.Yang moved to the UK from Beijing in 1999 to study her master's degree at Sheffield university. Twenty-first century garden cities, she said, are her “abiding passion”. Her research into them has made her realise just how little the public knows about planning and how many misunderstandings........