Wei Yang (urban designer)

Wei Yang OBE (born 1974) is a Chinese-British town planner and urban designer, an author and a scholar. She is the founder of Wei Yang & Partners and Co-founder of the Digital Task Force for Planning in London. She is a leading figure in researching, promoting, and implementing the 21st Century Garden City approach and fostering joined up thinking between different built and natural environment professionals.

Yang was president of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2021. She champions a revival of spirit for a modernised planning profession to tackle the global challenges in a systemic way, and thus to achieve collective wellbeing and fulfilment for all.

Yang is an honorary professor of University College London. She is Chair of Construction Industry Council, a board member of the British Library, and a member of UN Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering Committee.

Yang was appointed to the UK Government's New Towns Taskforce in September 2024.

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