Cliff Hague
Cliff Hague (born 1944) is a British town planning practitioner and Emeritus Professor of Planning and Spatial Development at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.[1]
Biography
Through the 1970s Hague provided voluntary assistance on planning and housing to the Craigmillar Festival Society, a community group in Edinburgh's largest public housing estate. From the mid-1970s until the late 1980s he was part of the Radical Institute Group that sought reform within the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Since 2006 he is Emeritus Professor and works as a freelance consultant and researcher. Since 2011 he has been Chairman of the Built Environment Forum Scotland (www.befs.org.uk).
He served as president of the Commonwealth Association of Planners from 2000–2006, and as Secretary-General from 2006-2010. Since 2008 he has led the team at the Royal Town Planning Institute that acts as the UK Contact Point for the ESPON programme (ESPON is the European Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion). In 2011 he chaired the Commonwealth expert group on urbanisation. He was president of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 1996.
He is a member of the UK's Academy for the Social Sciences.
Work
Hague has written a number of books and articles, including The Development of Planning Thought: A Critical Perspect which was published by Hutchinson in 1984; Place Identity, Participation and Planning (co-edited with Paul Jenkins) and Making Planning Work (co-authored with Pat Wakely, Chris Jasko and Julie Crespin).
He co-authored Urban Challenges: Scoping the State of the Commonwealth's Cities with Will French in 2009. In 2010 he co-authored the First ESPON 2013 Synthesis Report, New Evidence on Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Territories. He writes a blog on www.innovationcircle.net and a "World View" blog on www.planningresource.co.uk, and is also on Twitter.
His latest book, Regional and Local Economic Development co-authored with Euan Hague and Carrie Breitbach, was published by Palgrave in 2011.
Publications
- C.Hague, P.Wakely, J.Crespin and C.Jasko, 2006, "Making Planning Work: A Guide to Approaches and Skills", Earthscan.
- C.Hague, 2007, "Urban containment: European experience of planning for the compact city" in G-J Knaap, H.A. Haccou, K.J.Clifton and J.W.Frece (eds) "Incentives, Regulations and Plans: The Role of States and Nation-states in Smart Growth Planning", Edward Elgar, Northampton, Mass and Cheltenham, UK.
- C.Hague and V.Hachmann, 2008, "Organization, Achievements and the Future of ESPON" in A.Faludi (ed) "European Spatial Planning and Research", Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass.
- C.Hague, 2009, "Viewpoint: Planning in the Commonwealth" Town Planning Review 80(2), downloadable from www.commonwealth-planners.org/papers/hague.pdf
- C.Hague. E.Hague and C.Breitbach (2011 "Regional and Local Economic Development", Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York.
References
- ↑ New Zealand Planning Institute Conference 2007: Keynote Speakers: Cliff Hague
External links
- Cliff Hague (Chair) at Built Environment Forum Scotland
- Cliff Hague's blog at Innovation Circle
- Cliff Hague World View blog at Planning Resource
- Cliff Hague on Twitter
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