Making Planning Work: A guide to approaches and skills (2006)
The Development of Planning Thought: A Critical Perspective
Regional and Local Economic Development
Place Identity, Participation and Planning
Book-Programmes! Programmes!: Football Programmes from War-Time to Lockdown
Programmes! Programmes!: Football Programmes from War-Time to Lockdown
Dispatch from Delhi on the CV19 crisis in India's cities.
The global pandemic raises some important questions about the links between public health and planning.
This is my third daily blog from the 10th World Urban Forum.
Can we break the glass ceiling dividing community action and government action?
After the pomp of the opening ceremony, the 10th World Urban Forum got involved in two critical issues.
What can planners in Scotland (and the rest of the UK) learn from thinking and practice in other countries?
I am going to participate in the tenth World Urban Forum, in Abu Dhabi 8-13 February 2020.
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.
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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)