Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Mark Tewdwr-Jones is director of Newcastle City Futures and the fifth holder of Newcastle University’s 1946 Established Chair of Town. He was previously advisor on planning, land use and housing issues to ministers in the UK, Welsh and Scottish governments, and served as a lead expert for the government chief scientist Sir John Beddington’s Foresight project on Land Use Futures; more recently he has been involved in Sir Mark Walport’s Future of Cities Foresight project. He was also a lead expert on the NHS NICE project on spatial planning and health; advised the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; served on the ESRC CASE Award Panel and Royal Town Planning Institute General Assembly; has given evidence to select committees; is a panel member for DFiD’s Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; and served as vice chairman and trustee of the Regional Studies Association. He has produced 14 books, including The Planning Polity, Urban Reflections and The Collaborating Planner.
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New Approaches to Urban Living
Rachel Cooper, Alistair Boxall, John Bryson, Paul Chatterton, William Clayton, Graham Gill, Gary Grubb, Eli Hatleskog, Annabel Jenkins, Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley, Helen Manchester, Graham Parkhurst, Mike Pitts, David Relph, Darien Simon, Colin Taylor, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Sarah Toy, Paul Vallance
This session brings together researchers, their partners and funders with the public to identify what has been learned about cities; identify strategies and programmes of work that will see cities transformed in the future; and identify where research is needed next.
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