Planning/Civic Design at University of Liverpool

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Wishing all friends and collaborators of Planning at University of Liverpool, a bright start to the New Year!Photo Credi...
01/01/2025

Wishing all friends and collaborators of Planning at University of Liverpool, a bright start to the New Year!

Photo Credit: Chia-Lin Chen

Happy Christmas 2024 to all friends and collaborators of Planning at the University of Liverpool.
21/12/2024

Happy Christmas 2024 to all friends and collaborators of Planning at the University of Liverpool.

Great Christmas dinner for the Planning at the University of Liverpool team yesterday in the Victoria Gallery at the Uni...
13/12/2024

Great Christmas dinner for the Planning at the University of Liverpool team yesterday in the Victoria Gallery at the University of Liverpool ! Complete with carol singers and huge portions!

Thanks to the The Guardian for publishing this letter and a set of other contributions on the past and present of planni...
02/11/2024

Thanks to the The Guardian for publishing this letter and a set of other contributions on the past and present of planning.

There is some thought-provoking reflection here about the legacies of previous periods of planning and some setting-straight of records around the role that planning has played.

Thinking of today and of the future it is good to see that the profile of planning seems to be higher in the mainstream media at this time than for a long while. It feels like one of those moments that doesn't come around so often when this happens.

University of Liverpool

We are looking forward to welcoming the AESOP Heads of School Meeting to Liverpool next March! Initial dates and details...
27/09/2024

We are looking forward to welcoming the AESOP Heads of School Meeting to Liverpool next March! Initial dates and details below.

Association of European Schools of Planning

A great week in Copenhagen and Malmo with third year and masters students.University of Liverpool - School of Environmen...
23/03/2024

A great week in Copenhagen and Malmo with third year and masters students.

University of Liverpool - School of Environmental Sciences

Happy New Year 2024 from everyone at Planning/Civic Design at University of Liverpool!
31/12/2023

Happy New Year 2024 from everyone at Planning/Civic Design at University of Liverpool!

This morning Olivier Sykes and Richard Dunning from Planning at the University of Liverpool featured in a report and a s...
29/12/2023

This morning Olivier Sykes and Richard Dunning from Planning at the University of Liverpool featured in a report and a studio discussion about the Liverpool City Council Homes for £1 Scheme.

This can be watched again at https://lnkd.in/efkceEuB

Listen out too for Richard on Radio5 Live tonight between 22:30 and 23:30 on the same topic.

22/12/2023
Amazing sunset captured before the Christmas party!
14/12/2023

Amazing sunset captured before the Christmas party!

It's installment  #2 of our Planning Advent Calendar.Each day, we're asking a member of staff to reflect on a piece of r...
04/12/2023

It's installment #2 of our Planning Advent Calendar.

Each day, we're asking a member of staff to reflect on a piece of research (old or new) in the department that has really inspired them in their work. Today it's the turn of Olivier Sykes, Discipline Lead for Planning and Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning.

He has chosen The EU Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems and Policies (1997) produced and coordinated by a research team which included Dave Shaw at the University of Liverpool.

The Compendium provided comprehensive information and a comparative perspective on the spatial planning systems and policies of the then 15 EU member states.

It emphasised the challenges of characterising planning systems without ambiguity and of making meaningful comparisons that avoid overgeneralisation and oversimplification. Its categorisation of spatial planning systems in Europe into the 'Regional Economic', 'Comprehensive Integrated', 'Land Use Management' and 'Urbanism' traditions provided an influential and valuable starting point for numerous comparative planning studies which followed. It's use and definition of the term 'spatial planning' was also influential in introducing new thoughts about planning to contexts where it's scope had been narrowed down over preceding decades.

The Compendium remains a key reference point in the work I have done on international planning studies and a key reference for teaching. It was and remains a foundational document for the field of European spatial planning and international planning studies. That it was coordinated and led by UK-based academics also gives pause for thought and reflection from the perspective of 2023.

Details of the publication

01/12/2023

It's day #1 of our Planning Advent Calendar.

Each day, we're asking a member of staff to reflect on a piece of research (old or new) in the department that has really inspired them in their work. Today it's the turn of Alex Nurse, who is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning.

I've chosen the City Profile of Liverpool penned by Olivier Sykes, dave shaw, Jonathan Brown and Chris Couch . This paper is an absolutely cracking summary of Liverpool's development - charting it's long success as a maritime port, through its mid-century decline, and its amazing economic recovery in the early 2000s. Leaving off just after the European Capital of Culture year, the paper is THE point of reference about Liverpool's development.

I use it all the time when I'm writing about our city. It showed how you could come back from the urban brink and look to better days ahead!

Great to see the collective effort by planning staff at the University of Liverpool with colleagues from the University ...
24/11/2023

Great to see the collective effort by planning staff at the University of Liverpool with colleagues from the University of Hertfordshire, University of Cardiff/Prifysgol Caerdydd, and University of Glasgow published this week - ‘Planning in a Failing State’ from Policy Press.

Our ancestral home the Gordon Stephenson Building, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the Victoria Building taken from our ...
24/11/2023

Our ancestral home the Gordon Stephenson Building, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the Victoria Building taken from our current home the Roxby Building.

Happy World Town Planning Day from the Original Planning School!
08/11/2023

Happy World Town Planning Day from the Original Planning School!

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Roxby Building, Department Of Geography And Planning
Liverpool
L697ZT

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