International

Nominate your 2019 'women of influence'

11.02.2019

The Planner

Influence. It could be as weighty as changing national policy or as localised as being a good role model to junior staff in a local authority or small consultancy planning team.

RTPI 2019 Awards for Planning Excellence / RTPI

RTPI announces excellence awards finalists

04.02.2019

Laura Edgar

Projects that use drones and artificial intelligence and some that plan for heritage and the natural environment feature on the shortlist for the RTPI 2019 Awards for Planning Excellence.

RTPI blog round-up: Learning to love our ancient woodlands; The effect of the EU Withdrawal Act on planning

01.02.2019

RTPI

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 22 December-1 February, 2019

Nominate your ‘women of influence’ 2019

21.01.2019

Simon Wicks

There’s less than one week left to nominate your Women of Influence for 2019! The survey closes at 3pm on Monday, 25 February.

RTPI blog round-up: Africa – where planning leads the way with SDG goals

21.12.2018

RTPI

International | Policy & Politics | RTPI | UK

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 17 November-21 December, 2018

Cities must become more sustainable if they are to continue to support global economic growth

01.11.2018

George Adams

This year's World Cities Day took the theme of 'Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities'. If we're to meet this challenge, we need to focus on inefficiencies in the way cities are designed, built and...

Urban life and ‘concrete jungle’ intensify mental health disorders

25.10.2018

Huw Morris

Health | International | Mental health | The Nature Conservancy

Nearly half of humans across the world are living in population densities that damage their mental health, according to key international research.

Tech landscape: The beauty of BIM

11.10.2018

Mark Smulian

Building information modelling is widely used by architects and contractors – but why not planners? Mark Smulian asks the question

Planners need to be at the forefront of the battle to tackle climate change

10.10.2018

Martin Baxter

The IPCC report into the potentially devastating impacts of climate change stresses the need for immediate action. Martin Baxter argues that planners have a vital role to play in helping communities adapt...

Planning can take a ‘leading’ role in avoiding climate catastrophe, says RTPI

09.10.2018

Simon Wicks

Planning can play a key part in helping the planet avert the destructive changes to climate that will occur if global warming reaches 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the RTPI has stressed.

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