I was happy to provide a perspective on the prospects for place-based devolution and engagement for a ‘devolution panel’ for The Conversation this week, in the run up to Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister @casaucl.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 4w ago

Our experts explain how devolution in the UK has worked in practice – and what needs to change.

This is remarkable.

Session 1 is live at #CPRELUC: How did we get here? Emma Pinchbeck @thecccuk.bsky.social, Guy Shrubsole guyshrubsole.bsky.social, Prof Mark Tewdwr-Jones @ucl.ac.uk and Sue Pritchard @ffc-commission.bsky.social are making the case for rethinking how England uses its land.

Launching Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning by Daniel Galland @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social & @drjwharrison.bsky.social at @regstud.bsky.social Conference in Gothenburg 17 June 2pm w/ Jennifer Clark, Andy Pike, @mrglassphd.bsky.social & Simin Yan www.routledge.com/Regions-in-E...

Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning

Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually...

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🚨 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 📚 PHD OPPORTUNITY! Fully-funded 3 year UCL PhD at @casaucl.bsky.social. Start in October 2026 or February 2027. Deadline to apply is Weds 1 July 23:59 BST. Please share widely! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...

The CASA Dearden PhD Scholarship

The Dearden Scholarship is open to UK/home students who wish to embark on PhD level study that links to the research interests of CASA academic staff and the research interests of Joel Dearden.

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Land Use Conference - meet the speakers (part two) 💚 Join academics, experts, campaigners, broadcasters and decision-makers to discuss solutions to England's land crisis. @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @3keel.bsky.social 25 June | Register now 👇 www.cpre.org.uk/land-use-con...

New report: Re-thinking planning for growth & infrastructure delivery. A framework for how Spatial Development Strateiges can be prepared by strategic planning authorities in England, and the digital & innovation opportunities for integration of data & intelligence cp.catapult.org.uk/report/rethi...

Professor Andy Inch delivering the 2026 Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture last night under the auspices of the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social. Andy asked where the radicalism has gone in urban planning today, and revealed the history of radical alternative thought and practice in planning over the last century

Two days in Cambridge as a contributor to the REHDA Institute Housing and Urban Planning Forum, and listening to The Hon. Nga Kor Ming, President, UN-Habitat Assembly and Minister of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia, discussing housing development at a time of global economic tensions

Just catching up with the absolutely brilliant BBC Arena documentary The Private Life of the Ford Cortina from 1981. Informative but also tongue in cheek. Why don’t we make programmes like this anymore? You can still watch it on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Published today: Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning by Daniel Galland, @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social and @drjwharrison.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social gawc.lboro.ac.uk/new-book-reg...

New book: Regions in Evolution

Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually...

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Announcing the publication of Regions in Evolution, by Daniel Galland, John Harrison and myself, a history of regional planning internationally. It will be available as hardback, paperback, and ebook. The book is available to order here: www.routledge.com/Regions-in-E...

Happy 200th birthday @uclnews.bsky.social! I’ve devoted nearly 20 years of my career to UCL and still love the place, and the opportunity to interact with my brilliant colleagues and inspiring students. Here’s a pic from way back in about 2002. I’m not sure what Nick Gallent and I were gazing at…

The CASA Connected Environments Lab, led by Prof Duncan Wilson & Prof Steven Gray, has built an IoT Bus Tracker for the shuttle service between Stratford Station & UCL East, designed and operated by students. https://studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl-east-shuttle-bus-your-journey-just-got-easier

I have received finally a copy of this superb book Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work, dedicated to the life & work of the designer that I was also delighted to support from the outset. Her designs are all around us, at railway stations, airports, roads, hospitals, & the metro. What a phenomenal career

Andy’s new book Cities in the Metaverse is out now, alongside a new album Place and Space, available to download. Colleagues @casaucl.bsky.social pushing the boundaries of knowledge further in our quest to understand cities through science

Prof Andrew Hudson-Smith@digitalurban.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Album: Place and Space - Music directly inspired by the themes explored in the book Cities in the Metaverse. Mark your calendars: 📅 December 1st: Available on all streaming platforms. Read the academic book. Stream the album via @casaucl.bsky.social #metaverse #music #digital

RIP Martin Parr. Photographer extraordinaire and a brilliant portrayer of everyday British life. Truly inspirational www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Delighted to be back at @cpcatapult.bsky.social as an advisor looking at the potential for strategic digital planning in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill & the Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill - integration, strategic thinking, strategic stakeholder engagement

Congrats Holly 👏 Looking forward to receiving my copy today.

Holly Smith@holsmith.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

New guidance issued for researchers engaging with the UK government. The Government Office for Science has updated its guidance on how academics can engage with government, outlining practical routes for impact & influence at every career stage @thebartlettucl.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/p...

Routes for academic engagement with Government

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For prospective Masters students interested in cities and computing, mapping and visualisation, digital connectivity and data analysis, here’s your chance to learn more about our stellar programmes at UCL CASA in London

UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)@casaucl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ready for a change in direction, want to step up your #gis and #giscience 'game', or interested in #AI, #datascience, #IoT and the #urban? Sign up to hear more about our four Masters programmes at a virtual postgraduate open data on 30 October from 1-2pm: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Interested in cities, places, connectivity, & planning? Applications are open for fully-funded UCL ESRC doctoral studentships through the UBEL partnership. The deadline is 10 November. See further details & eligibility criteria at ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral... Contact bartlett.phd-ecidi@ucl.ac.uk

That’s my weekend listening sorted. New album has arrived @warringtonruncorn.com

I’m so sorry to hear that Sir Terry Farrell has passed away. He was a giant of urbanism, the creator of some spectacular architecture especially in China & Hong Kong, a masterplanner of Newcastle, and the instigator of the Farrell Centre. This is from 2017 when Terry received the RTPI 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

Matthew Pennycook MP@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We warmly welcome all 12 of the locations recommend by the Taskforce with Tempsford, Crews Hill and Leeds South Bank looking particularly promising. We are today commencing a SEA to support final decisions on precisely which sites will be taken forward. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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 Zulfikar D. W. Putra & Mark Tewdwr-Jones now published in Cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A fascinating day at @cpcatapult.bsky.social looking at integrated planning & the prospect of unlocking the potential of planning. Thanks to my panel members Terry De Sousa, David Mountain, & Annette Jezierska for their rich thoughts on spatial development strategies and digital planning

I was delighted to give the plenary talk at the UK Ireland Planning Research Conference at the University of Ulster last week on Planning Futures as the Right of Truth: Unsettling Planning in the Digital Age. Thanks to the organising committee 📸@drcatbutton.bsky.social

I don’t fly very often these days if I can help it, but the aerial view of London on my return flight to London City from Belfast on Sunday was superb. Amazing to see the transformation of Elephant & Castle from this perspective

A superb collection of archive railway films presented this evening BFI NFT with @mrtimdunn.bsky.social and 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