Tag Archives: Poverty

Inauguration speech as RTPI President 1996

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague 20. January 2023 Leave a comment

This was first posted in 2016. Twenty years ago I became RTPI President. Here is the text of the speech I gave to RTPI Council on my inauguration. It ends by reaffirming the manifesto published in 1975 by the Radical Institute Group, of which I was one of the founders. After thanking the RTPI, my…

Afghanistan’s urban population to double in 15 years

News Items, Pre-2020By Cliff Hague 20. January 2023 Leave a comment

This was first posted in 2015. Around 8 million live in Afghanistan’s cities today, but that number is expected to double by 2030.Yet, like many other rapidly urbanising countries, it has no national urban policy, no housing policy, and local planning is weak. The country remains predominantly rural, with only 1 in 4 living in…