How to use Town Planning and Town Planners to teach OCR post-16 Geography A Level

Rupa Ahluwalia, Education Development Officer

People are at the heart of places, living their lives, forming attachments and making connections. The themes covered across the five areas of Topic 2.1 Changing Spaces; Making Places summarise the competing demands for land and buildings and uses for space, which Chartered Town Planners face on a daily basis. The specification allows learners to look through a lens to understand global issues and the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has produced a colourful mapping document resource which provides useful RTPI links to the following five sections of the specification:

1. What’s in a place?
2. How do we understand place?
3. How does economic change influence patterns of social inequality in places?
4. What are the players that influence economic change in place?
5. How are places created through placemaking processes?

Download the mapping document

If your students would like more information on how to get into town planning please see our website or for free copies of our ‘About Planning’ magazine, aimed at inspiring the next generation of planners, contact careers@rtpi.org.uk. Also if you want a practitioner to help make some of this come alive when you are teaching town planning, contact the RTPI for an RTPI volunteer Ambassador.

About us 

The Royal Town Planning Institute is the UK's leading planning body for spatial, sustainable and inclusive planning and is the largest planning institute in Europe with over 24,000 members. We are a charity whose charitable purpose is to advance the science and art of planning (including town and country and spatial planning) for the benefit of the public.