Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Commonwealth

Cliff Hague, OBE, has been President of CAP (2000–2006) and of the Royal Town Planning Institute (1996). He is Emeritus Professor in Planning and Spatial Development at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He has been Secretary General of CAP and Chair of Built Environment Forum Scotland. Clive Harridge was President of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2006. He served as the Secretary-General of CAP between 2010 and 2021 and is currently a Trustee and Honorary vice president. He is a former Director and Head of Planning, Transport and Design at the international consultancy Wood. Bryce Julyan is a Fellow of the New Zealand Planning Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia. He leads the Planning and Engagement Practice at Beca, a New Zealand headquartered consultancy covering the Asia-Pacific region. Bryce has served on the CAP Executive Committee since 2014. Ruiz Nik is a Council Member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners and is the Principal Director of Rekarancang, a Malaysian planning consultancy established since 1977. He has served as Malaysia’s representative on CAP since 2018. Ian Tant is a planning practitioner and a former Senior Partner of UK-based consultancy Barton Willmore (subsequently part of Stantec). He was President of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2019 and has been the UK’s vice president of CAP since 2020.

Part 1: Messages and Introduction

Message from the Right Honourable Patricia Scotland, KC, Commonwealth Secretary-General.
Message from Anne Gallagher, Director-General, Commonwealth Foundation.

Message from Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat.

Messages from sponsors of the book.

1. Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Work of CAP

Clive Harridge

Part 2: The First 50 Years

Introduction to Part 2

Ian Tant

2. Pointing a Path to Sustainable Urbanisation

Cliff Hague

3. 1970-1988 Laying the Foundations for a Commonwealth-wide Profession

Clive Harridge

4. 1988-2000 New Technologies and an Existential Crisis

Bill Robertson

5. 2000-2006 Reinventing Planning for Sustainable Urbanisation

Cliff Hague

6. 2006-2014 Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda

Christine Platt

7. 2014-2020 Building Global Partnerships for Sustainable Urbanisation

Dyan Currie

8. 2020-2022 The Road to the Kigali Declaration on Sustainable Urbanisation and Beyond

Eleanor Mohammed and Kelley Moore

9. Gender and Sustainable Urbanisation – the work of the CAP Women in Planning Network

Jua Cilliers and Kristin Agnello

Part 3: The Next 50 Years

Introduction to Part 3

Ian Tant

10. Planning for Sustainable Urbanisation: Issues and challenges

Cliff Hague and Christine Platt

11. Planners will not be the Man in Horned Rimmed Glasses: The Future is Civil Not Civic

Vijay Krishnarayan

12. Young People Driving Sustainable Urbanisation

Olafiyin Taiwo

13. Education for Planning a Sustainable Future

Barbara Norman

14. Endpiece: Perspectives on the Past and Future of Planning in the Commonwealth

Cliff Hague, Clive Harridge, Bryce Julyan, Ruiz NIK and Ian Tant

Appendices

Appendix 1 CAP Chronology

Appendix 2 Biographical details of Contributors to the book

Appendix 3 Details of Sponsors

Appendix 4 Glossary