THE GARDEN CITY

Episode 7 of The Grimshaw Podcast ‘The City Series’ launches today with Dr. Wei Yang, President of the prestigious Royal Town Planning Institute in the UK. Hosted by Grimshaw’s Cities Initiative Lead, Dr. Tim Williams, Episode 7 explores Dr. Yang’s passion for garden cities and garden villages and her commitment to promoting design excellence by creating truly sustainable environments and liveable cities. Dr. Yang is unique in many ways. She is the first foreign-born President of the RTPI, a role she clearly enjoys, particularly as it has allowed her to engage with planners across the UK and internationally: her enthusiasm for the profession is infectious and she is especially keen to inspire young people to enter it. Impressively, she also practices as a planner and an urban designer in both the UK and China and is pursuing her professional interest in garden cities in both countries. Dr. Yang is the founder of Wei Yang & Partners in London, which was founded in response to the diverse challenges of sustainable development worldwide. This is a very engaging conversation with a real planning expert, able to give us deep insights into city planning in a global context.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.