tech landscape
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17.12.2020
Is there truly a case for blockchain technology within the planning process or could it be more hype than help? Unboxed’s Kassie Paschke and Rhian Lewis consider the pros...
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15.10.2020Climate Change | climate change | emissions | Housing | tech landscape | Technology | UK | zero-carbon housing
While government policy is moving back towards zero-carbon housing, some housebuilders are looking to leapfrog policy requirements in the race to cut emissions. Matt Moody reports....
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22.07.2020Development Management & Enforcement | London | tall buildings | tech landscape | Technology | Wind guidelines
Clusters of tall buildings create windy microclimates that can make life at ground level unbearable. Award-winning guidelines produced by the City of London aim to make street life more pleasant in the City...
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15.06.2020
An app to monitor affordable housing throughout its lifetime has won the 2020 RTPI Award for Excellence in Tech within Planning Practice. Simon Wicks finds out how it works and how openness...
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09.12.2019
Public engagement has taken centre stage with reports from developers Grosvenor and Think Tank demos both highlighting a lack of trust and engagement in the local planning and development process. Dr David...
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23.10.2019England | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | smart cities | smart technology | tech landscape | Technology | town centres
If we’re to plan intelligently for the town centres of the future, we need to change the way we think about them – paying particular attention to digital technology, says Atul Joshi.
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25.07.2019Artificial Intelligence | Data | England | International | RTPI planning convention 2019 | tech landscape | Technology | UK
If deployed effectively, artificial intelligence will demand some game-changing disruption to the way planning is practised professionally and encountered by the public, reports Martin Read.
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28.06.2019big data | Infrastructure - Communications | Policy & Politics | privatisation | public vs private | smart cities | tech landscape | Technology | UK
Is there an ethical dimension to the application of smart city technologies? Simon Wicks considers new work by a past contributor to the planner that raises uncomfortable questions.
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17.05.2019
In the first of a two-part look at the relationship between planning, digital technology and ethics, Simon Wicks considers the ethics of data collection.
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15.04.2019
#Plantech has tended to focus on intelligent data gathering and sorting, but what about the fundamental processes that drive planning? Simon Wicks finds out about Motif, workflow software for planners, and...
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