The place shaping agenda is now at the forefront of planning policy whilst Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s mantra is about meeting the economic impacts of globalisation.

Planners are left in the middle to provide for economic imperatives, such as housing, alongside the massive social and economic costs of mitigating the impacts of climate change and creating communities that will endure. Suddenly ours is the generation of planners charged with nursing what would seem an increasingly fragile world.

The Royal Town Planning Institute’s 2008 Planning Convention, ‘Changing Places: Changing World’, is deliberately aimed at tackling these seemingly disparate agendas. The Convention aims to marry the effects of globalisation with the emergence of the role of place-shaping at the neighbourhood level. It will help to identify where these forces are at work and provide the knowledge and practical tools to tackle them, through a mixture of plenary sessions and workshops.

Who should attend?

• Leaders and visionaries
• Planners and facilitators
• Politicians and campaigners
• Regenerators and sustainability practitioners
• Designers and deliverers
• Developers and environmentalists
• Academics and implementers
• Advisers and decision makers
• Managers and front liners
• Professionals and activists
• Public and private sectors
• Participants and exhibitors
• Chief executives of local authorities

To Book

For further information and to book, please refer to the conference website.