City Space Architecture

Planners are essential in crafting inclusive and equitable solutions to global challenges. They focus on developing healthy, socially inclusive, and economically and environmentally sustainable communities, ensuring adequate homes and liveable urban spaces. This is achieved through proactive site or area-based plans, frameworks, and briefs, or by promoting such projects through policy. Planning acts as the gateway to protecting vital qualities and interests, balancing and integrating domestic environments/private interests with public life/public policies to support improved urban development.
The exhibition is a joint initiative of City Space Architecture with The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) and the Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC), with the American Planning Association (APA) and the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Auckland. All these organizations are affiliated to the Global Planners Network (GPN), a network of planning associations and organisations with a planning interest. The GPN promotes the exchange of ideas and information to help shape consensus views and engage in activities for the benefit of international planning awareness, learning, development, and support and advocates the value of planning.
Responding to the theme of WUF12, ‘It All Starts at Home’, and recognising that housing is a key priority globally, the global planning community will be celebrating World Town Planning Day on 8th November 2024 focusing on the theme: ‘Homes Start with Planning’– across the world and at WUF12 we will be celebrating the role of planning and planners in delivering homes that meets the needs of our communities, and in helping to create equitable, inclusive, and sustainable public spaces for all.