Cities Today partners with International Federation of Housing and Planning

Cities Today is pleased to announce a new partnership with the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP), which will see the organisation join the magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board.

“IFHP is very excited to join Cities Today in a media partnership because it creates great opportunities to invite the readers of Cities Today to an unprecedented series of events and activities during IFHP’s Centenary year 2013 and to include the readers ofCities Today as members in the rapid growth of IFHP,” said Piet Hein Stassen, Chief Marketing Officer at the International Federation for Housing and Planning.

The International Federation for Housing and Planning is a global network of professional institutions and individuals active in the broad fields of housing, urban development and planning. The IFHP was established in 1913 by Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, which later became the IFHP.

“We are delighted that the International Federation for Housing and Planning is becoming a strategic partner of Cities Today and will join the Editorial Advisory Board alongside the World Bank, C40, ICLEI, UN-Habitat and UCLG ASPAC among other important agencies active in urban development,” said Richard Forster, Managing Editor of Cities Today. “The Federation, which celebrates its 100^th year in 2013, brings together a range of stakeholders for better design and planning of cities and we look forward to participating in the Centenary Congress to be held in London in June.”

The IFHP consists of members from 60 countries who use the organisation as a platform to exchange knowledge and information. Through this exchange, IFHP promotes mutual learning and inspiration, and generate new ideas amongst professionals in order to equip them to find the best local solutions to the global challenges facing housing and planning today. In 2013 IFHP celebrates its centenary year with a series of events around the world, with the IFHP Centenary Congress on June 8-11 at University College London as the pivotal event.

Nicholas You and Roman Rollnick join Cities Today as Editorial Advisors

Cities Today is happy to announce that Nicholas You and Roman Rollnick will be taking up roles as Editorial Advisors.

Trained as an architect/planner, Nicholas You, completed 28 years of service at the United Nations in 2010, with a five-year spell as Senior Policy and Strategic Planning Adviser for UN-Habitat. You now works across the globe advising governments and local authorities in public policy, strategic planning, best practices and benchmarking in support of sustainability. You’s current roles include; Advisor to the Guangzhou Municipality, Chairman of the Urban Strategy Council GDF Suez and Chair of Assurance Group, Urban Infrastructure Initiative at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Roman Rollnick is a reporter who has lived and worked around the world. He was South African correspondent for Agence France-Presse and later appointed AFP’s Asia News Editor, 1974-82. Rollnick then spent seven years with United Press International in London as Chief European and Africa Correspondent. He worked for a year at The Times before joining The European as Chief Foreign Correspondent. For the last 10 years he served the United Nations as Chief Editor and Speech Writer at UN-Habitat in Nairobi.