This wondrous blue planet of ours is continually rotating, changing and careering through space in cyclical loops. Sometimes planning policy feels as though it might be doing the same thing. The place shaping agenda is now at the forefront of planning policy whilst Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s mantra is about meeting the economic impacts of globalisation. Planners are left in the middle to provide for economic imperatives, such as housing, alongside the massive social and economic costs of mitigating the impacts of climate change and creating communities that will endure. Suddenly ours is the generation of planners charged with nursing what would seem an increasingly fragile world.
The Royal Town Planning Institute’s 2008 Planning Convention, ‘Changing Places: Changing World’, is deliberately aimed at tackling these seemingly disparate agendas. The Convention aims to marry the effects of globalisation with the emergence of the role of place-shaping at the neighbourhood level. It will help to identify where these forces are at work and provide the knowledge and practical tools to tackle them, through a mixture of plenary sessions and workshops. Read more
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