Smart Cities, governance and urban transport
How can cities in the rapidly urbanising world benefit from Smart City approaches to urban management?
The Changchun City Planning Museum: A Showpiece of Urban Planning and Branding
Guest blogger Klaus Kunzmann explores a mueum devoted to the history of urban planning in a Chinese city.
Conscious Cities - new ways of thinking about places
The first issue of a new journal gives insights to new ways of thinking about cities.
Trump, planning and cities
The guest blog by Klaus Kunzmann reflecting on the likely impact of Trumps's victory prompted me to respond with some more ideas.
Best ways to enhance Edinburgh
I gave the Cockburn Association annual lecture in Edinburgh on 27 October 2016. I have now written it up and you can read it.
OBE
Earlier this week I was honoured to receive the OBE for services to planning, at an investiture at Buckingham Palace.
How and why the world fell back in love with planning
The Habitat 3 conference in Quito this month is a critical opportunity to shape the practice of planning globally.
Training planners to work with informality
Planners on an innovative post-graduate course in Zambia are being trained to understand how informal development operates and how to deliver pro-poor planning.
South Africa 1995
In 1995 I was invited to speak to a landmark conference in South Africa for the transition of planning after apartheid. I reported on my visit in my monthly magazine column.
Grid-based plans for urban extensions
A simple grid plan for urban extensions should be the basis for managing rapid urbanisation says a new UN-Habitat report.