The Royal Town Planning Institute

Planning manages competing pressures on our built and natural environments. As the membership organization for chartered town planners, the Royal Town Planning Institute constantly seeks to create places in which people want to live and work.

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The Royal Town Planning Institute

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Institute focuses on policy and best practice for planners and the public

The RTPI's dedicated policy and practice team monitors planning news and guidance and consult members and specialist networks to provide a decisive voice on planning policy on behalf of members, explains Ben Lee.

Crossing Borders - International Exchange and Planning Practices

This new book in the RTPI Library Series, edited by Patsy Healey and Robert Upton, explores the global movements of planning ideas and practices.

Transport seminar reviews consortium progress on accessibility

The Accessibility and User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments Consortium, part of the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council's £38 million Sustainable Urban Environments programme, recently celebrated the completion of seven years of research with a one-day research symposium.