Wei Yang (urban designer)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.
Wei Yang
杨威
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Beijing, China
EducationTown Planner
Urban Designer
Alma materXi'an University of Architecture and Technology
University of Sheffield
OccupationTown planner & urban designer
Organization(s)Wei Yang & Partners, Digital Task Force for Planning
Known for21st Century Garden City approach, Modernisation and Digitalisation of Planning Profession
Websitewww.weiyangandpartners.co.uk,www.digital4planning.com

Wei Yang FAcSS FRTPI MCIHT (born 1974) is a Chinese-British town planner and urban designer, an author and a scholar.[1] She is the founder of Wei Yang & Partners[2] and Co-founder of the Digital Task Force for Planning[3] in London. She is a leading figure in researching, promoting, and implementing the 21st Century Garden City approach[4] and fostering joined up thinking between different built and natural environment professionals.[5]

Yang was president of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2021.[6] She champions a revival of spirit for a modernised planning profession[7] to tackle the global challenges in a systemic way, and thus to achieve collective wellbeing and fulfilment for all.

Yang is an honorary professor of University College London.[8] She is Chair of Construction Industry Council,[9] a board member of the British Library,[10] and a member of UN Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering Committee.[11]

Yang was appointed to the UK Government's New Towns Taskforce in September 2024.[12]

  1. ^ Yang, Wei (24 January 2024). "Abercrombie Lecture: Spatial planning reimagined: rekindling the founding spirit for the future". Town Planning Review. 95 (1): 21–44 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ "Dr Wei Yang". Dr Wei Yang.
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  4. ^ "RTPI Past Presidents". Royal Town Planning Institute.
  5. ^ "Sixty-nine leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. Archived from the original on 2019-12-16. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  6. ^ "Reimagined planning profession needed to address global challenges, says new RTPI President". Royal Town Planning Institute.
  7. ^ "Dr Wei Yang RTPI Presidential Inauguration speech, 20 January 2021" (PDF). Royal Town Planning Institute.
  8. ^ "CIC appoints Dr Wei Yang as new Deputy Chair". www.rtpi.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  9. ^ "Dr Wei Yang becomes CIC's first female Chair". Construction Industry Council.
  10. ^ "Board Member, Wei Yang".
  11. ^ "WUC Chairs". World Urban Campaign. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  12. ^ "The New Towns Taskforce". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2024-10-05.