The RICS Podcast The Surveyors’ Role in Supporting Urban Leadership in Cities with Professor Greg Clark, Tom Webber MRICS and Borane Gille #193
Jun 2, 2025
53:37
With a rapid growth of urbanisation in recent years around the world, the role of the surveyor is vital in ensuring we get a positive outcome from urbanisation.
In this episode of The RICS Podcast, Professor Greg Clark, Tom Webber MRICS and Bourane Gille discuss the surveyor’s impact on how urbanisation helps cities to grow positively, create opportunities, and last for decades to come.
This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:
- The rapid global increase in urbanisation, highlighting the potential for 90% urbanisation by 2080
- How successful urban development requires shared place leadership, with collaboration between public and private sectors, universities, businesses, and civil society
- Surveyors’ critical role in urban leadership, providing evidence-based, robust approaches to complex development processes
- The need for urban leaders to adopt a long-term perspective, designing for flexibility and resilience
Professor Greg Clark
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-greg-clark-cbe-01145119/
Borane Gille
https://www.linkedin.com/in/borane-gille-135330133/
Tom Webber MRICS MRTPI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwebber1/
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:
RICS Podcast Page
Kieran Halliwell