Interested in cities, places, connectivity, & planning? Applications are open for fully-funded UCL ESRC doctoral studentships through the UBEL partnership. Deadline 10 November. See details & eligibility criteria https://t.co/lWkArPhfzz Contact bartlett.phd-ecidi@ucl.ac.uk

So sorry to hear that Sir Terry Farrell has passed away. He was a giant of urbanism, the creator of some spectacular architecture, a masterplanner of Newcastle & London, and the instigator of the Farrell Centre. This is from 2017 when Terry received the @RTPIPlanners Gold Medal

The Government has announced the candidate locations of 12 new new towns. A good geographical spread and mix of greenfield and urban infilling sites that should be all well connected through public transport

Communities are self-organising increasingly to run their own local services. But why do some so-called ‘DIY urbanism’ projects survive and others fail? New open access publication by @zulfikardwp & @MTJProf now published in Cities https://t.co/NGHYVbOXuD

I don’t fly very often these days if I can help it, but the view of London on my return flight to London City from Belfast on Sunday was superb. Lovely to see @DawsonsHeights Dulwich from this perspective

A superb collection of archive railway films presented this evening @BFI NFT with @MrTimDunn and @FoxOnFilms Steve Foxon acting as comperes, covering 200 years of railway history but also showing the creative talent of filmmaking over 130 years. A packed audience of 400 too

A throwback memory. The last time Liverpool Street was redeveloped. New facilities and space can be provided, it seems, without necessarily compromising the integrity of the original design @C20Society @RowanMoore

Congratulations to my student Yuna Lee on the successful defence of her PhD thesis on Strategic Foresight and Policy Making in the US and UK yesterday @CASAUCL. Thanks to examiners Louise Kempton & Rainer Kattel, and Mike Batty for being part of the supervisory team

Announcing a forthcoming book, “Regions in Evolution - A History of Regional Planning”, a critical and deep analytical look at the ebbs & flows of regional planning globally over 100 years, with John Harrison & Daniel Galland, due to be published early in 2026

Such sad news. I worked with Rachel on Future of Cities, UKRI, Connected Places Catapult & N8 partnership. She was wonderful, inspiring & humorous. Rachel was someone who could transcend disciplines, sectors & academic/policy worlds. I will miss her wise counsel & friendship.

The Government’s 10-year Infrastructure Strategy outlines a new approach aimed at ensuring planning and delivery is joined up. However, the RTPI warns that further support is needed for a spatial planning approach. Read the full statement: https://t.co/htC4ZYbWVM

6th World Planning Schools Congress 2026 website has launched: https://t.co/S44SGHVGRp PERIPHERAL VISIONS: RETHINKING PLANNING, will take place 29 June - 3 July '26 in Helsinki and Espoo Finland, with PhD Workshop 26-29 June in Tampere. #WPSC26 @ReseauAPERAU @The_ACSP @aesopYA

Wonderful to be back in my university ‘home’ at @cardiffuni School of Geography & Planning to give a talk on urban futures, interact with so many knowledgeable people across the university, and to catch up with many friends, exactly 35 years since I graduated.

On 02 July, CASA academics will lead a one-day workshop introducing A Level teachers to new ways to explain changing places, focusing on connections between people, the economy and how infrastructure(s) link the local, national and international scales. https://t.co/PKuqF1eTQx

Are you a UKRI-funded doctoral student seeking policy experience? Apply for the UKRI Policy Internship scheme for a three-month placement at top policy organisations. Applications close on 8 September. Learn more here: https://t.co/3l1uZVWoJV

Announcing the publication of a new book on planning theory, Critical Planning Futures, by Phil Allmendinger Mark Tewdwr-Jones & Matt Wargent, with some amazing contributions from academics across the Global South & North, all devoted to analysing the form & future of urban

Passionate talk about the prospects for the future of the North East by @KiMcGuinness the Mayor of the North East at the @ucl @TheBartlettUCL Sir Peter Hall Lecture 2025 including discussion of devolution

Are you an academic keen to work on policy? Check out the exchange schemes on offer in our new directory!️ Find out more: https://t.co/n6mWbqthwa

I’ve been clearing my parents’ house & came across another one of my drawings. This is ‘A Little Town’ drawn when I was 8 in August 1977. Some attempt at perspective but incredible attention to detail like road markings 😬 Clearly it was destined that I would have a career in

So that’s my reading sorted out for the next few weeks. Very much looking forward to reading Owen Hatherley’s new book showing how Central European emigres transformed 20th century Britain & @samwetherell’s work on Liverpool