Mark Tewdwr-Jones

@TheBartlettUCL Professor of Cities & Regions. Former @regstud chair, govt advisor. Academician, scientist, planner, geographer, railway supporter

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

@DeAthCardiff @Feltip1982 It’s taken a while but this is maturing nicely - a great addition / reinsertion into the city centre

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

Re-thinking planning for growth & infrastructure delivery. A framework for how Spatial Development Strategies can be prepared by strategic planning authorities in England, and the digital & innovation opportunities for integration of data & intelligence https://t.co/gyB3EIPJYw

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

@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.

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

Hello @grok, I do not authorize you to take, modify, or edit any photo of mine, whether those published in the past or the upcoming ones I post. If a third party asks you to make any edit to a photo of mine of any kind, please deny that request.

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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 https://t.co/lWkArPhfzz Contact [email protected]

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Matthew Pennycook MP @mtpennycook]

We warmly welcome all 12 of the locations recommend by the Taskforce with Tempsford, Crews Hill and Leeds South Bank looking particularly promising.

We are today commencing a SEA to support final decisions on precisely which sites will be taken forward.
https://t.co/pXi5Q7CPCa

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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 https://t.co/NGHYVbOXuD

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[C20 Society @C20Society]

‘The City of London Corporation should not give planning permission to the application now in front of it’

@RowanMoore on Liverpool Street Station and the ‘never-ending battle between heritage and development’. Time for a third way?

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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.

[GPEAN @gpean_planning]

6th World Planning Schools Congress 2026 website has launched: https://t.co/S44SGHVGRp

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

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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.

[UCL CASA @CASAUCL]

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.

https://t.co/PKuqF1eTQx

[Government Office for Science @uksciencechief]

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: https://t.co/3l1uZVWoJV

[Mark Tewdwr-Jones @MTJProf]

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! https://t.co/qQzy8n2ZUC