Progressive Localism, Civic Capacity and the Role of Planning
- This event took place on 6 October and was attended by 120 people. Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost of UCL, introduced the lecture, which was chaired by Professor Sir Peter Hall.
- A podcast,the full text of the lecture and slides are available to download.
The RTPI is delighted to announce that Professor Patsy Healey (Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University) will give the RTPI Nathaniel Lichfield Memorial Lecture from 6pm on 6 October 2011.
With one of the fields leading thinkers covering one of the most crucial topics facing planners today, this will be a key event for anyone interested in the interaction of localism and planning.
This lecture will step back from the immediate politics surrounding localism and look at the wider context of a search for more progressive approaches to making places. Following Nat Lichfields emphasis on the role of planning as realising communities aspirations for the quality of place, the lecture will look at developing civic capacity to promote rich, integrated and pluralistic ideas of what place quality means. Many of the issues which need to be addressed are on multiple scales and involve conflicts that have the potential to divide communities.
Professor Healey will argue that planning, with its main focus on the governance of place, is one of the key arenas in which our democratic system is currently being tested. In this context, she will discuss the potential of the localist agenda and identify what its more progressive directions might be. She will also consider how these translate into the day to day to practices through which planning is carried out.
Generously supported by Dalia Lichfield and kindly hosted by University College London (UCL), the lecture will be followed by a short reception.
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