Cliff Hague

Impacts of AirBnB regulation in New York

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New York has long been a money spinner for AirBnB. In January 2023 there were 38,500 listings. As…

Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Commonwealth

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Planning a Refugee Camp

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In 2010 the Commonwealth Association of Planners held its first Student Essay competition. The winners were Jeremiah Atho…

Kes Revisited – The welfare state and community in the late 1960s

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Ken Loach’s film, Kes, was released in 1969. What does it tell us about life in a coalfield…

Place Identity, Participation and Planning

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Cliff is a freelance consultant, researcher, author and trainer. He was the Chair of the Cockburn Association 2016 – 2023.

He is Professor Emeritus of Planning and Spatial Development at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

He is a Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute, and of the Commonwealth Association of Planners.

He is a past Chair of Built Environment Forum Scotland.

He was awarded the O.B.E. in the 2016 Birthday Honours.

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The Development of Planning Thought: A Critical Perspective

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Leading Change: Delivering the New Urban Agenda through Urban and Territorial Planning

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ESPON 2013 Applied Research Sounding Boards

European Observation Network for Territorial Cohesion and Development

ESPON 2013 is an applied research programme partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund and partly by the 28 EU member states, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Its research has built an evidence base to support policy development for territorial cohesion and development. ESPON appoints two experts to sit on the Sounding Board…

Why civic trust is draining away

News Items, Pre-2020

This blog was published in March 2016. Civic pride and civic trust are important for community cohesion and well-being, but are being eroded by austerity and a centralised system of planning and local government. This was a central theme of the inaugural Scottish Civic Trust Annual Lecture which I delivered in Edinburgh on 2 March.…

Europe’s Neighbourhood from a Territorial Perspective

Consultancy

Europe’s Neighbourhood from a Territorial Perspective, Report from the ESPON Internal Seminar in Paphos, Cyprus 5-6 December 2012 (2013) https://www.espon.eu/news-events/espon-2006-2013-events/espon-2013/internal-seminars/espon-internal-seminar-0 . Co-author.

EU and US Congress members plead Israel to stop demolition

News Items, Pre-2020

The Foreign Ministers of the 28 European Union countries have called on Israel “to halt plans for forced transfer of population and demolition of Palestinian housing and infrastructure” in the village of Susiya in the West Bank. Eleven members of the US Congress have also written to Secretary of State John Kerry about the plight…

Zlin – Conserving a classic of functionalism

Original Blogs CliffHague.com

Zlin is an outstanding example of a town inspired by 20th century functionalist architecture. This classic company town was a product of the Bata shoe company, its “home town” that the company then mimicked across the continents. It survived Communism, and now a finely balanced conflict is taking place between conservation and consumer capitalism. The…

Sri Lanka plans “Megapolis” to boost growth

News Items, Pre-2020

The Sri Lankan government recently created a new ministerial post – Minister of Megapolis and Western Province Development. The brief is to oversee the creation of a huge urban area roughly 95 kms long with the capital Colombo at its heart. The $300billion project will involve new development and urban renewal on a scale never…

The Civic Use of Heritage Assets

Blogs and small towns work for Built Environment Forum Scotland

My blog published on the website of the Built Environment Forum Scotland on 1 December 2015 arges that the “hollowing out” of local government has seriously diminished the capacity to cherish the historic environment as a civic asset.Click here to read the blog. The blog discusses a particularly controversial development proposal in Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site. Click here…

The State of China’s Cities

World View Blog-2015

I have referred to Chinese urbanisation several times in these blogs, but make no apologies for returning to the topic. What is happening in China should be of interest to planners, urbanists, environmentalists and economic development professionals everywhere. In part this is because of the sheer scale of the changes – a rural to urban…

Cities for people to invest in – or to live in?

News Items, Pre-2020

We are building cities to attract investment, not cities for people to live in, argued David Harvey, the distinguished geographer, speaking in Montevideo. Harvey argued that in times of economic crisis, one escape strategy has been to invest in the built environment, as a way to create opportunities for capital and to get potentially rebellious…

Addressing transport challenges in urban areas

World View Blog-2015

This blog by Cliff Hague was first posted on 28 October 2013 on the Planning Resource website. As ever more trips are made it becomes harder and harder to move around cities, even when money is invested in transport infrastructure. Across the globe, but especially in the rapidly urbanising mega cities of the global south,…