RTPI International
The Royal Town Planning Institute is an international organisation. Five per cent of its 20,000 members live and work outside the UK, and it accredits planning courses overseas.
The Institute has an International Committee and a dedicated International Affairs Officer, and is an active member of the European Council of Spatial Planners and the Commonwealth Association of Planners. It now makes a significant contribution to UN-Habitat (the United Nations Human Settlements Programme) especially the biennial World Urban Forum - the next WUF will be held in Nanjing, China, in October 2008.
RTPI is also founder member of the Global Planners Network dedicated to raising the profile of planning as an indispensable part of managing the world's rapid urbanisation. There is more information about work we are doing to support the Network in the article below. If you would like to attend the next GPN Conference in China in late October, RTPI is organising a study tour to Shanghai and Zhenjiang to make what we hope will make an attractive package for planners. Find out more
The International Affairs Officer is the first point of contact for Institute members based overseas, overseas enquirers asking about planning in the United Kingdom, members in the United Kingdom enquiring about planning overseas, overseas planners already working in the British Isles and overseas planning Institutes. To contact the International Affairs Officer, please click here.
Planners and others with a special interest in issues of international development and planning are encouraged to join the International Development Network.
RTPI & CAP research for the Global Planners Network
At its next meeting in Zhenjiang, China at the end of October 2008, the partners in the Global Planners Network will review their first two years' efforts. Preparing their input to the meeting, RTPI and the Commonwealth Association of Planners, with support from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in the USA, are running a research project to assess the world's capacity for planning. You can contribute to this research by visiting its web-site and answering some straight-forward - but searching - questions about the scope, status and effectiveness of planning in your country. Go straight to the survey to find out more.
World Town Planning Day 2007
Read the warning from the President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners: governments round the world need to review their approach to urbanisation - before it is too late.
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