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Category Archives: Original Blogs CliffHague.com

Metropolitan challenges and affordable housing

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in February 2020. After the pomp of the opening ceremony, the 10th World Urban Forum got involved in two critical issues. How to plan and manage metropolitan areas? An event organised by ISOCARP focused on this urgent theme. A range of leading figures from organisations that included the World Bank,…

Ten messages from the rest of the world to planners in Scotland

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

What can planners in Scotland (and the rest of the UK) learn from thinking and practice in other countries? For World Town Planning Day 2019 I did a blog that extolled ideas nurtured in Scotland that had relevance for the rest of the world. Now it’s time to flip the focus and look the other way. In…

Ten messages from Scotland for Planners around the World

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

On World Town Planning Day 2019, I was part of an event in Dundee organised by RTPI (Scotland) with the theme “Through the Years, Across the Globe”. Discussion during and after prompted me to ponder Scotland’s messages to an international audience of planners and urbanists. For a small country, Scotland has contributed significantly to thinking…

Delhi – Colonial Planning, Slums and Gated Communities

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in October 2019. Inside the slums and gated communities the opportunities and obstacles to sustainable and inclusive urban development can be seen. Spending a few days in Delhi as part of the Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods project has given me insights into the way urbanisation is taking place in…

City Spread and New Neighbourhoods

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in October 2019. A major study of health, education and sustainability in rapidly growing cities poses some difficult questions for public policy makers. What kind of neighbourhoods characterise the rapidly growing cities of Asia and Africa, and how do they contribute to – or lead us away from – achieving…

Scotland’s Planning Bill – who will “frontloading” work for?

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in December 2019. The passing of the Scottish Planning Bill marks the end of a tortuous period, during which it even seemed possible that the Bill might be withdrawn, so heavily had it been amended. However, the conflicts that surfaced are unlikely to go away. What changes has the Bill…

50 years a planner

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in August 2018. It is 50 years ago since I took up my first post as a professional planner. This anniversary moment provides plenty to reflect on. In May 1968, while students built barricades on the streets of Paris, I took the train from Manchester to Glasgow for a job…

China’s New-Style Urban Policy

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in July 2019. Urban Transformation and “New Style” Urbanisation in China was the theme of a major conference hosted by the University of Glasgow. In 2014 China launched its New-Style Urbanisation Plan (NUP). The Plan gave a new emphasis to environment and to the quality of urban development, and better…

Science and Urban Climate Change

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in 2018. A paper in a leading scientific journal calls for much greater engagement of scientists in urban policy and practice. Politicians look for short term fixes. The public has no appetite for “experts”. Many practising planners and other built environment professionals disdain academics and say they don’t have time…

World Urban Forum 9 – A missed opportunity for UK

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague23. January 2023Leave a comment

World Urban Forum 9, in Kuala Lumpur in 2018, was an opportunity to show UK engagement with urbanisation as a global issue. It was missed. Here is the blog I posted from that event. The UK remains myopic about the opportunities and challenges of the urbanisation of the planet. We may fret about the lack…

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