An ideasSpace presentation with the planner and urban designer Dr Wei Yang, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2021.
Designing our towns, settlements and cities to provide a canvas for healthy lives lies at the heart of good urban design and planning. Covid has brought keenly into focus the affect places have on both our physical and mental health. In the UK we are currently considering major reforms to the planning system, pushing for more beauty in development along with regional urban equality.
It’s a good time to talk to Wei Yang about the future of planning, how it can remain relevant and drive innovation in facing the combined challenges of climate change, the loss of biodiversity and social inequality.
Wei is Founder and Chairman of Wei Yang & Partners, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), a Fellow of the RTPI, a member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) and a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Client Advisor.
She is also a Board Member of the British Library, an independent Trustee of the Landscape Institute and a Board Trustee of Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre.
Wei is the Global Planners Network representative at the UN Habitat professional Forum.
00:00:00 – Introduction. Christopher Martin
00:01:08 – A revival of spirit. Modernising the profession, public perception, international collaboration, engaging the young and addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.
00:07:12 – Improving the public’s understanding of planning. The taxi driver test: Do you know what town planning is?
00:09:23 – Realising the full potential of the town planning profession.
00:11:12 – Climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Collaborative working.
00:13:11 – The relationship between planning, urban design, other professions and the public.
00:16:27 – What can we learn from Ebenezer Howard?
ideasSPACE is a collaboration between the Urban Design Group, UrbanNous and Christopher Martin of Urban Movement.
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