The event, considering the ongoing importance of planning, takes place on May 24
The University of Liverpool is holding an event to highlight the role and importance of planning at the University and in the wider North West region. It will also celebrate the centenary of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).
The event, What did planning ever do for us will consider the role and importance of planning and planners in shaping the places that we live, work and relax in.
Oldest planning school
The University’s Department of Civic Design – founded in 1909 – is the world’s oldest planning school and a leading global centre of excellence in professional planning education and research. The Town Planning Review, edited in the Department throughout the last hundred years, has proved an invaluable means of communicating new developments in planning thinking and practice.
Graduates from the department can be found in senior positions all over the world and many of the RTPI’s Presidents studied at Liverpool including this year’s incumbent, Dr Peter Geraghty.
Professor Peter Batey, the Lever Professor of Town and Regional Planning and Chair of the event, said: “Liverpool has been at the forefront of planning education for over 100 years and is still playing a pivotal role in addressing the planning challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
“This seminar will consider the on-going importance of planning and discuss the role universities can play in the development of tomorrow’s planners as well as celebrating the past. “
Friday May 24
The event will take place from 1.30pm to 4pm on Friday, 24 May at the University’s Victoria Gallery & Museum.
To register for the event and to find out further information about the seminar, please visit http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~jsturz/Whatdidplanningeverdoforus.pdf
