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Tag Archives: Planning education

Long-established Planning course to close

2023, News ItemsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

The closure of one of the oldest undergraduate Planning courses in the UK has been announced. The BSc (Hons) in Town Planning at Heriot-Watt University, one of the oldest undergraduate Planning courses in the UK, has ceased to recruit new students. The course had been under pressure for some time over concerns about recruitment. To…

Dr. Keith Thomas – An appreciation

2022, News ItemsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

The death was recently announced of Dr. Keith Thomas who for many years taught students of planning at Oxford Brookes University. The death was recently announced of Dr. Keith Thomas who for many years taught students of planning at Oxford Brookes University. Before moving to Oxford in the mid-1970s, Keith was a Senior Lecturer in…

Amsterdam, Formation of AESOP and a trip to a Planning Committee

Flashback to Cliff's Planning columnsBy Cliff Hague24. January 2023Leave a comment

My “Diary” article in 1987 records the formation of the Association of European Schools of Planning, AND of the Scottish Torquay United Supporters Club (which has not proved as long-lasting). The article was first published in Planning on 11 December 1987 and is reproduced with the kind permission of the editor. To see more of my old…

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…

What does the election of Trump mean for planning and the profession?

Guest BlogBy Cliff Hague20. January 2023Leave a comment

Guest blogger Klaus Kunzmann shared his thoughts from Potsdam on what a Trump presidency could mean for planning and planners in this blog from 2016. First Brexit, then Trump. The liberal elites in Europe and beyond are shocked. In a brief statement in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine on 10 November Saskia Sassen has expressed her concerns…

International accreditation of planning degrees

World View Blog-2015By Cliff Hague17. January 2023Leave a comment

What are the implications of moves to offer international accreditation of planning education, particularly on North-South basis globally? The RTPI has fully accredited a planning programme in Africa for the first time. I chaired the Accreditation Board that visited University of Cape Town last week. On 30 October the Commonwealth Association of Planners will hold a meeting…

Going local – A new era for planning in Botswana

GeneralBy Cliff Hague12. January 2023Leave a comment

Posted April 21, 2014 by cliffhagueShare     I was in Botswana recently. Planning there is going through a significant transformation. New legislation that came into force in April 2014 will see significant devolution of planning powers to 16 District-level authorities. Twelve of these are rural. As planning goes local the challenge will be to deliver a more…

A unique international oral history of planning ideas and practices

World View Blog-2015By Cliff Hague12. January 2023Leave a comment

Posted March 28, 2014 by cliffhague In May in Vienna there will be a unique event. It will bring together sixteen people who have been leading figures in the academic development of planning over the past decades – or fifteen and me to be more accurate! The Evolution of Planning Thought project  seeks to collect an oral history of…

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