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Water cities in transition: Inspiring solutions in integrating, urban design and water challenges. Amsterdam, 31 October – 1 November 2011
Posted on: 30 November 2011
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The conference aimed to serve as a platform where urban planners and waer managers could focus on the latest developments in water city transitions, coping with climate change-related challenges, linking them with socio-economic issues and inspiring integrated solutions in urban design and practice. A large number of presentations are available online.
Cities, health and well-being. Hong Kong, 16-17 November 2011
Posted on: 30 November 2011
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This event provided an opportunity to explore the relationships between the built environment and urban health at a regional and global level. Its core objective was to identify and showcase evidence of projects and initiatives that have improved the well-being of urban dwellers as a result of innovative planning and design practices. In particular, the conference focused on the health and well-being implications of urban density and its planning and design. The conference combined a focus on Hong Kong with comparative analysis and policy learning from other cities including Cape Town, Karachi, London, Maputo and Vancouver. Videos of conference presentations and discussions are available online.
Low carbon design: The power to deliver change. Bristol, 22 November 2011
Posted on: 22 November 2011
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This RIBA event provided an opportunity to consider how we put into practice the latest thinking on sustainability, retrofit and low carbon technology, and the role of architects and built environment professionals in shaping the policy framework in which we work. A brief overview of the issues discussed is outlined in the twitter diary written by RIBA Yorkshire’s Ruth Donnelly.
Place visioning in Scotland: Lessons learned
Posted on: 27 October 2011
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The issues of ‘place’ and ‘placemaking’ are central to the reform of the Scottish planning system. Since 2009, the Urbanism team at Architecture and Design Scotland have been working with five planning authorities and communities across Scotland to explore what visionary and ambitious plans are, and how they can be achieved. This work took the form of partnership working on place visioning, using a variety of participatory techniques. The results of these exercises have been written up by Andrew Guest to share learning as a series of short reports. The visioning exercises worked at different scales of place, from strategic development plan scale to small city, small town and city district.
The future of design in the built environment
Posted on: 21 October 2011
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The Bishop review was commissioned by the Design Council at the time of its merger with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). It addresses the central question of how good architectural, landscape and urban design can be achieved within a national agenda that focuses, on the one hand, on creating the conditions for the UK’s long term economic prosperity and, on the other, on the devolution of power to local communities. Specifically, the report calls for Design Review to be decentralised and made more accessible and responsive to local people and developers. A copy of the review, background details and debate from the launch event.
Low carbon cities, resilience and social justice. Birmingham, 17 October 2011
Posted on: 17 October 2011
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This workshop was aimed at providing a space for presenting and discussing recent research on the relationships between low carbon urbanism, resilience, vulnerability and social justice. We invited a number of key researchers in the field in order to establish which thematic areas have received insufficient attention until now, and how we might go about in covering them. A particular emphasis was placed on the development of aReader on Low Carbon and Resilient Cities as well as future research funding proposals in this domain. A report and presentations are available online.
Resilience in urban design: 4th International Urban Design Conference. Gold Coast, Australia, 21-23 September 2011
Posted on: 23 September 2011
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This event provided an opportunity to reinforce and highlight resilient solutions for city-wide planning, design and infrastructure in order to successfully address emerging challenges brought about by climate change, peak oil crisis, population growth, social disengagement, technological disparity, rising pollution and waste, demands on food production, rising carbon emissions, and diminishing habitat and biodiversity. A 350-page book of proceedings is available online.
Addressing crime and disorder in public places through planning and design
Posted on: 20 September 2011
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The main aim of this guide is to provide advice about the design and planning issues that arise from the area of “crime and disorder”. It is primarily aimed at planners, architects and other designers responsible for planning and designing the external built environment. The guide: explains how the issues may be addressed in a comprehensive manner and explores their complexity; provides more information on particular topics, exploring the issues in greater depth and providing advice on where to go for more detailed information; and demonstrates, through case studies, examples of the issues and the approach taken on particular projects.
Innovation in redesign cities. Gdansk, Poland, 18-20 September 2011
Posted on: 18 September 2011
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In the framework of Polish Presidency of the EU Council the European Forum for Architectural Policies organised this international conference. The goals of the conference were: to indicate an innovative role of architecture in redesign of European cities that is aimed at their development and increase of attractiveness, while challenged by global competition; to indicate an innovative role of architecture and urban design in sustainability and harmony of urban environment, while responding to the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; to indicate an innovative role of architecture that aims at the life quality, as opposed to short-term and territory-limited profits of mostly financial character, observed at all levels: national and regional, municipal, corporate and individual; to indicate a need for cooperation of the state and local authorities, the NGOs, research institutes and profession in support of innovative architecture; to indicate the needed actions, carried by EU and governmental bodies in processing the redesign of European cities’ structure; to indicate the priorities of the Architectural Policy, accepted by all parties engaged in innovation and architectural quality, aimed at sustainable.
A video summarising the main issues debated at the conference and illustrated by several case studies and site visits is also available here.
Ecocity World Summit. Montreal, 22-26 August 2011
Posted on: 31 August 2011
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The Summit programme was organised around six interconnecting themes that explore leading edge research and showcase practical solutions that contribute to the development and management of ecocities. All speakers presented lessons from their specific area of expertise and explained how their work relates to the broad range of issues that are integrally related in the ecocity concept. Special crosscutting panels focused on the interconnections between several themes to offer a holistic view of Ecocity principles. Examples include: design of living buildings in sustainable communities; new technology for eco-infrastructure such as waste to energy facilities; planning solutions for ecomobility; economic strategies to sustain ecocities; and citizen commitment and empowerment. Abstracts of all oral presentations are available online. Content from all presentation sessions was captured in audio or video format. Details will be provided soon regarding how to access these recordings. Individual presenters’ powerpoint and slide presentations are not available through the conference web site. However, a post-conference edited volume is being compiled with presenters at the Summit being invited to present papers for consideration in a book on ecocities.
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