Mark Tewdwr-Jones

@boys_nicholas @CW_Architect To be honest there’s little new here. A group of architects and engineers in the North East came up with this in 2016 as ideas were bandied about for the hyperloop.

Now THIS is Great British Railways & proper Unionism. I LOVE the ambition by @CW_Architect, a raised high-speed railway, The Loop would connect Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, with Edinburgh & Glasgow in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Bangor in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Dublin in 🇮🇪, Belfast in Northern Ireland…

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Delighted to be back at @CPCatapult as an advisor for the next few months looking at the potential for strategic digital planning in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and the Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, delivering positive planning reforms

Interested in cities, places, connectivity, & planning? Applications are open for fully-funded UCL ESRC doctoral studentships through the UBEL partnership. Deadline 10 November. See details & eligibility criteria ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral-f… Contact bartlett.phd-ecidi@ucl.ac.uk

So sorry to hear that Sir Terry Farrell has passed away. He was a giant of urbanism, the creator of some spectacular architecture, a masterplanner of Newcastle & London, and the instigator of the Farrell Centre. This is from 2017 when Terry received the @RTPIPlanners Gold Medal

The Government has announced the candidate locations of 12 new new towns. A good geographical spread and mix of greenfield and urban infilling sites that should be all well connected through public transport

Communities are self-organising increasingly to run their own local services. But why do some so-called ‘DIY urbanism’ projects survive and others fail? New open access publication by @zulfikardwp & @MTJProf now published in Cities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I don’t fly very often these days if I can help it, but the view of London on my return flight to London City from Belfast on Sunday was superb. Lovely to see @DawsonsHeights Dulwich from this perspective

A superb collection of archive railway films presented this evening @BFI NFT with @MrTimDunn and @FoxOnFilms Steve Foxon acting as comperes, covering 200 years of railway history but also showing the creative talent of filmmaking over 130 years. A packed audience of 400 too

A throwback memory. The last time Liverpool Street was redeveloped. New facilities and space can be provided, it seems, without necessarily compromising the integrity of the original design @C20Society @RowanMoore

Congratulations to my student Yuna Lee on the successful defence of her PhD thesis on Strategic Foresight and Policy Making in the US and UK yesterday @CASAUCL. Thanks to examiners Louise Kempton & Rainer Kattel, and Mike Batty for being part of the supervisory team

Announcing a forthcoming book, “Regions in Evolution - A History of Regional Planning”, a critical and deep analytical look at the ebbs & flows of regional planning globally over 100 years, with John Harrison & Daniel Galland, due to be published early in 2026

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.

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…

Are you a UKRI-funded doctoral student seeking policy experience? Apply for the UKRI Policy Internship scheme for a three-month placement at top policy organisations. Applications close on 8 September. Learn more here: ukri.org/apply-for-fund…

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 planning. Plus this is Book #20 for me! routledge.com/Critical-Plann…

@KiMcGuinness @ucl @TheBartlettUCL Great talk Kim and really delighted to see real leadership ahead for the North East

@MTJProf @ucl @TheBartlettUCL Thanks for coming, great to see you.

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