The library has been sorted by area of work, topic area, resource type and publishers. The areas of work include: Climate Change, Healthy Place-making, Garden Cities and New Towns, Community Participation and Social Justice, Parks and Green Infrastructure, and Planning Reform.
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TCPA New Towns Network
The TCPA New Towns Network brought together local authorities where the UK's 32 New Towns are located to share experience through peer to peer learning and other activities
Celebrating 70 Years of the New Towns Act
The TCPA has published a series of think-pieces which provide a snapshot of how the New Towns Act has touched the lives of individuals and the nation as a whole. It contains personal reflections and commentary from those who have lived and worked in and explored the New Towns, and it touches on what this means for the communities of tomorrow.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on New Towns
The TCPA is the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on New Towns, which has been set up to celebrate the contribution made by the UK's and to highlight the challenges they face.
Understanding Garden Villages
An introductory guide highlighting the key characteristics of historical 'model' and garden villages, to help inform the design and delivery of new garden villages today.
Re:Place – Reconnecting Arts & Planning
Re:Place - Reconnecting Arts & Planning
Case studies
In March 2020 TCPA launched a project to bring together our work exploring how planning might reconnect with its artistic roots.
TCPA Performance Pieces
Over the past 10 years the TCPA has been exploring its artistic heritage in the context of the Garden City movement and environmental education. An acute awareness of the power of art in the creation of places and thinking about social transformation has emerged from this process.
Two Tea Bags to Utopia
The podcast, by our Director of Policy Dr Hugh Ellis, can only be described as 'very personal' (which, its author suggests, is also potentially career-ending!).
Good Practice Guide for Improving Culture, Arts and Sporting Opportunities through Planning
A guide based on the online Culture and Sport Planning Toolkit resource to provide authoritative guidance for planning and cultural professionals.
Civic Art: the renewed philosophy of town planning
This paper is designed as a provocation to feed into the development of the new TCPA Arts Strategy. The paper calls for an entirely new philosophy of planning based on civic art to restore planning as a humane and powerful force for better lives.
Art and Planning Strategy
Art is vital in helping us to both understand and express what it is to be human, and people need art in their everyday lives to connect to each other and the places in which they live. This means that to plan successfully we need to think both artistically and scientifically about the future.
