Mark Tewdwr-Jones
@MTJProf
@TheBartlettUCL Professor of Cities & Regions. Former @regstud chair, govt advisor. Academician, scientist, planner, geographer.
Such sad news. I worked with Rachel on Future of Cities, UKRI, Connected Places Catapult & N8 partnership. She was wonderful, inspiring & humorous. Rachel was someone who could transcend disciplines, sectors & academic/policy worlds. I will miss her wise counsel & friendship.

The Government’s 10-year Infrastructure Strategy outlines a new approach aimed at ensuring planning and delivery is joined up. However, the RTPI warns that further support is needed for a spatial planning approach. Read the full statement: rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/june…
6th World Planning Schools Congress 2026 website has launched: wpsc2026.org PERIPHERAL VISIONS: RETHINKING PLANNING, will take place 29 June - 3 July '26 in Helsinki and Espoo Finland, with PhD Workshop 26-29 June in Tampere. #WPSC26 @ReseauAPERAU @The_ACSP @aesopYA
Wonderful to be back in my university ‘home’ at @cardiffuni School of Geography & Planning to give a talk on urban futures, interact with so many knowledgeable people across the university, and to catch up with many friends, exactly 35 years since I graduated.

On 02 July, CASA academics will lead a one-day workshop introducing A Level teachers to new ways to explain changing places, focusing on connections between people, the economy and how infrastructure(s) link the local, national and international scales. rgs.org/events/upcomin…
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Announcing the publication of a new book on planning theory, Critical Planning Futures, by Phil Allmendinger Mark Tewdwr-Jones & Matt Wargent, with some amazing contributions from academics across the Global South & North, all devoted to analysing the form & future of urban…

Passionate talk about the prospects for the future of the North East by @KiMcGuinness the Mayor of the North East at the @ucl @TheBartlettUCL Sir Peter Hall Lecture 2025 including discussion of devolution

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I’ve been clearing my parents’ house & came across another one of my drawings. This is ‘A Little Town’ drawn when I was 8 in August 1977. Some attempt at perspective but incredible attention to detail like road markings 😬 Clearly it was destined that I would have a career in…

So that’s my reading sorted out for the next few weeks. Very much looking forward to reading Owen Hatherley’s new book showing how Central European emigres transformed 20th century Britain & @samwetherell’s work on Liverpool

When does a “non-place” become a “place”, and can people’s use of digital technology give new meaning to the locations they are in? New open access article published in @CogitatioUP by Weijue Wang @MTJProf & @ValeSignorelli cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/…

UCL Geography has 3 jobs on offer that would be a fit for geospatial and/or health folk. Lecturer in Geographies of Health x 2 (with “spatial analysis") lnkd.in/enH4h2iX Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Geospatial Data Analysis & Cartography (0.5 fte, 12 months)…

The Class of 95. Postgrad planning students of Cardiff University visiting Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic in March 1995, led by your’s truly when I was a lecturer at CPLAN. Photo posted by @GarethEnticott on LinkedIn

I have been fortunate this week to visit both @Sydney_Uni and @UNSW and to give a presentation at the @UNSWCityFutures on digital engagement and strategic planning for new metro transport schemes. Wonderful to catch up with friends after a gap of so many years too

Announcing a new book on planning theory, Critical Planning Futures, by Phil Allmendinger, Mark Tewdwr-Jones & Matt Wargent, with contributions from academics across the Global South & North, all devoted to analysing the form & future of urban planning. To be published soon…

After 18 weeks & 58 NHS appointments, I have - finally - been given the all clear following surgery to remove a lump on my back. Thanks to my family for playing nurse to me over that time and to the NHS staff at QEH, all of whom have been amazing. Onwards

This has been a long time in the making - we recommended it in our Foresight Land Use Futures report in 2010 - but its good to see the purpose and value of it recognised theguardian.com/politics/2025/…