equality

Culture shift: Why we need to think about diversity in housing design

22.03.2021

Matt Moody

The UK is a culturally and ethnically diverse nation. But do the homes we’re building cater appropriately to our differences and if not, why not? Matt Moody considers the case for a shift in thinking about...

Legal briefs: Judicial review over Cumbrian coal mine; Welsh public bodies face new equality duty

12.03.2021

Roger Milne

A round-up of legal news: 6 March-12 March, 2021

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Gender mainstreaming should feature in decision-making practices

08.03.2021

Laura Edgar

Urban planning policies that are sensitive to gender-specific needs should be implemented into all policy, legislative and decision-making practices, suggests newly published research.

Covid has shown us that it's time to address inequality in the built environment

08.03.2021

Sue Manns

Sue Manns’ experience of being RTPI President has been unlike any other’s. But a year of Covid has been profoundly enlightening when it comes to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of our places and...

Nominate your Women of Influence for 2021

15.12.2020

The Planner

diversity | equality | International | Professional Development | Women of Influence

Who are the women who have shaped the planning profession's responses to the challenges presented by 2020?

New BAME planners network can lead us towards a more equitable profession

08.10.2020

Helen Fadipe

A new network for BAME planners aims to tackle inequaity in the profession. Helen Fadipe MRTPI explains the rationale behind the BAME Planners Network.

The RTPI must empower BAME planners

11.06.2020

Emma El Deen Luke MRTPI

Minority ethnicities are under-represented in planning, says Emma El Deen Luke. The RTPI needs to work closely with BAME planners to improve this situation

RTPI: Women’s chances of promotion are ‘limited’ because of gender

06.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Many women working in the planning profession face inappropriate comments at work and feel their opportunities for promotion are limited because of their gender, concludes an RTPI study.

Women of Influence 2020

06.03.2020

The Planner

Who are the women working in and around planning who are having an impact - both on individual planners, teams and organisations; and on planning policy and practice? Here's our Women of Influence for 2020...

The gender agenda: How planning with women in mind can improve our towns cities

03.03.2020

Natalya Palit

2018/19’s RTPI George Pepler award-winner used her grant to investigate the impact of ‘gender mainstreaming’ in Austria’s capital city. Natalya Palit MRTPI finds out what UK planning can learn from Vienna....

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