Routledge & RTPI
Planning Theory and Practice is a leading planning journal providing a focus for the development of theory and practice in spatial planning and encourages the development of a spatial dimension in other areas of public policy. Published four times a year, each edition contains articles by academics and practitioners covering original research, commentary and analysis. The journal's Interface section features a series of contributions on a topical theme, with the aim of fostering critical reflections and engagement with new ideas and practices. Members of the RTPI can subscribe to Planning Theory & Practice at a discounted rate of 33 a year.
The RTPI Library Series covers all aspects of spatial planning theory and practice from a comparative and international perspective. Recent titles include An Anatomy of Sprawl by Nicholas A. Phelps and Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory by John Friedmann.
RTPI members can get a 15% discount on all books in the RTPI Library Series
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, CAP and RTPI (2008)
GPN launched a tool designed to help planners around the world assess their capacity to respond to the challenges of urban growth. The Self-Diagnostic Tool to Assess Planning Capacity has been developed by the UKs Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Commonwealth Association of Planners. The outcomes of this project were presented at the end of 2008 to the UN Habitat World Urban Forum 4 in Nanjing, and the Global Planners Network Congress in Zhenjiang.
CLG and RTPI (2008)
Sets out an approach to conceptualising and using indicators to support the forging of new local development frameworks and their co-ordination with sub-regional, regional, and ultimately national, objectives and strategies for development. Significantly it aims to use data and indicators that have already been developed in order to promote a consistent and pragmatic basis for developing monitoring and evaluation.
SDRN (2008)
This report, researched and written by Land Use Consultants (LUC) and The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), recommends that policy appraisal approaches need to be developed and play a more influential role within the spatial planning process. Although the report uncovered evidence of areas where SA recommendations are making a real difference to development plan policies, evidence was also found which suggests that recommendations are often ignored. Other key areas for improvement are identified including a need to make the Sustainability Appraisal process more practitioner-friendly as well as a need for joint-working practices between spatial planning practitioners, other policy-makers and members of the research community.
CLG, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Greater London Assembly and RTPI (2007)
Undertaken by UCL and Deloitte, the report identifies success factors and common barriers in effective spatial planning and makes recommendations for promoting more effective spatial planning.
RTPI (2006)
Explores existing data sources and mapping techniques that could be used to draw up a UK spatial planning framework. A team led by Cecilia Wong at the University of Manchester has produced a report for the RTPI, demonstrating in practical terms just how much benefit governments, policy makers and decision makers would gain from the systematic ordering of broad scale data about the UK to answer 'hard questions' on a spatial base. As well as demonstrating the benefits of such a framework, the report, assembled by a small team using widely available data and information technology, demonstrates that manipulating policy and decision support data on a UK-wide scale need no longer be a resource-hungry exercise. A UK SPF would offer wide benefits at limited cost to the nation.
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