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RTPI blog round-up: Enabling healthy placemaking

06.09.2019

RTPI

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 10 August-6 September, 2019

Common futures: Adapting to urbanisation in Commonwealth countries

24.04.2018

Wei Yang

The UK Built Environment Advisory Group held a special...

Why we’re all responsible for implementing global development goals

18.10.2017

Trudi Elliott

A year ago, 170 nations met to agree how they would address critical global urban challenges – from the rapid growth of cities to the threat of climate change, writes Trudi Elliott, chief executive...

Nature in the balance: Planning challenges in Ecuador

26.09.2016

Huw Morris

Hosting Habitat III is an accolade for Quito. But Ecuador and its historic capital are beset by inequalities. Huw Morris looks at the prospects for positive change in a nation where nature is...

What's on the Agenda? The New Urban Agenda assessed

05.09.2016

Mark Smulian

A powerful blueprint for urban development for the next generation, or an agreement diluted by political horse-trading and its lack of legal force? Mark Smulian takes a look at the ...

Sustaining notes: Sustainable Development Goals and the UK

05.09.2016

Elisabeth Jeffries

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals that underpin Habitat III hold the potential to transform planning in the wealthy gobal North, as well as the poorer South. But is the UK open to change? Elisabeth...

A history of Habitat

02.09.2016

Huw Morris

From Vancouver in 1976 to Quito in 2016, the UN's Habitat summits have attempted to set the agenda for urban planning around the world. Huw Morris looks at the history of Habitat

Manifesto launched to guide sustainable development worldwide

22.03.2016

Laura Edgar

To build the cities needed in the 21st century, 10 guiding principles have been laid out in a manifesto by the World Urban Campaign, including the principle that cities should be “well planned, walkable and transit-friendly”.