Simon Catton is Head of Masterplanning at the award winning architecture and urban design practice Weston Williamson and Partners

Brian Q Love is a registered architect, fellow of the RSA, member of the TCPA, Chief Executive of Connected Cities and Director of Love Architecture Ltd, a RIBA chartered practice of architects, project managers and urban designers.

Bill Hillier is Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology in the University of London. Tim Stonor is an architect and urban planner

Rob Cowan is an urbanist, a city planner, author and cartoonist

Marion Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design at the University of Westminster. Her research has broadly focused on the relationship between social issues and their physical context, in particular the night time economy, sustainable communities and gender and cities.

Tim Pharoah MSc, MCILT, MCIHT, MTPS is a transport and urban planning consultant with more than 40 years experience of transport and land use planning, street design and urban regeneration.

Maysa Phares is a Senior Urban Designer at Farrells, specialising in large scale mixed-use developments and residential led schemes. Manchester Northern Gateway is one of the UKs more ambitious regeneration projects.

Spyros Katsaros is Director, Urban Design and Masterplanning with PRP. He has more than 14 years project experience across a diverse range of environments, densities and scales. He combines innovative yet contextual architecture and urban design with effective community and stakeholder consultation.

Daniel Ringelstein is Director of Urban Design and Planning at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) With experience in the US, Europe and SE Asia, he specialises in large scale urban regeneration from inception through to completion.

Amy Priestley is an urban designer and planner. She describes and illustrates an array of projects from the award winning Mini-Holland programme and the environmental, community and economic benefits