A major controversy has developed in Edinburgh over a huge development that was allowed to go ahead in the World Heritage Site without planning permission.

On World Town Planning Day 2019, I was part of an event in Dundee organised by RTPI (Scotland) with the theme "Through the Years, Across the Globe". Discussion during and after prompted me to ponder Scotland's messages to an international audience of planners and urbanists.

Inside the slums and gated communities the opportunities and obstacles to sustainable and inclusive urban development can be seen.

A major study of health, education and sustainability in rapidly growing cities poses some difficult questions for public policy makers.

Pakistan is suffering from chronic underinvestment in urban planning.

What was planning education like 50 years ago?

Here are links to some of my articles that have been published in The Scotsman recently (July 2019)

The Erasmus University in Rotterdam provides a series of on-line trianing materials on urban development and planning, with a particular focus on rapidly urbanising countries.

Why is the French Government failing to meet its own goals on limiting CO2 emissions?

The Booth Cottage, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1913, which is in Glencoe, Illinois, could become the third of his buildings to be demolished since 2004.