Wei Yang (urban designer)

Wei Yang OBE (born 1974) is a Chinese-British town planner, urban designer, author, and scholar. She is the founder of Wei Yang & Partners and the co-founder and CEO of the Digital Task Force for Planning in London.

Yang is known for her work on the 21st Century Garden City approach and for promoting integrated thinking across the built and natural environment sectors. Leading the modernisation and digital transformation of the planning profession, she developed a digitally enabled methodology for spatial planning.

Yang served as President of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2021. She champions a revival of spirit for a modernised planning profession, emphasising systemic approaches to global challenges and the pursuit of collective wellbeing.

She is an Honorary Professor at University College London, a board member of the British Library, and a member of UN Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering Committee. From 2023 to 2025 she chaired the Construction Industry Council in the UK.

In September 2024, Yang was appointed to the UK Government's New Towns Taskforce, whose Report to Government (New Towns Taskforce, 2025) was published on 28 September 2025.

Yang was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to town planning.