The second in a series of debates entitled Cities, Climate and *Critical Urban Infrastructure: Climate Responsive Urbanism. This event explores different aspects of urban density; its impact on climate, energy use and value and the challenges it presents to planners and environmentalists.
An event hosted jointly with The Urban Design Group and the first in a series of debates entitled Cities, Climate and *Critical Urban Infrastructure.
The overall series explores the consequences of current practices in building, urban design, planning, regulation and policy on critical urban infrastructure. We will discuss how we can harness the often overlooked interactions of built form (the dimensions of buildings and their placement in relation to each other), urban climate and energy both in its natural expression (temperature/wind/sunshine) and those of building needs (cooling/heating loads), whilst addressing our collective responsibilities in this time of climate emergency to create net-zero carbon, healthy and resilient cities.
The intent of this series is to integrate existing knowledge across disciplines, identify gaps in current knowledge and practices, and explore solution pathways for policy and better practice.
This first event explores the ‘Critical Urban Infrastructure’ framework and asks whether it can support an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that promotes comfortable healthy environments and more sustainable urban practice’.
Convenor: Richard Lorch, Editor, Buildings & Cities
Host: Robert Huxford, Director, Urban Design Group
Chair: Rohinton Emmanuel, Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
Speakers:
Gerald Mills, University College Dublin - Overview, Climate Responsive Urbanism
Asaf Din, Perkins&Will - Resilience in the Design process
Marialena Nikolopoulou, University of Kent - Urban Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation
Rachel Toms, Public Health England - Health & Wellbeing
Nicola Bacon, Founding Director Social-Life - Environmental & Social Justice
Venue: The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, Farringdon, London EC1M 6EJ
Timing: Thursday 9th January 2020
Arrivals 13.30
Debate 14.00 – 17.10 pm
Networking -17.50
The Pub - The Hope, Smithfield
Please come and contribute to the discussion. To attend please register by each attendee’s name here.
*The Critical Urban Infrastructure Framework offers an overarching approach towards climate responsive urbanism that recognises that the components of urban systems are both highly integrated and interdependent. Whereas the traditional approach to the design, use, and environmental management of our cities focuses on green, blue and grey infrastructure, often in isolation, the critical approach accounts for the interdependencies between built form and function (e.g. the dimensions of individual buildings, their occupation patterns and urban layout), outdoor and indoor climates, energy demands and waste generation, etc. Critical infrastructure also includes the urban commons and the use, preservation and access to our collective shared resources (e.g. daylight, ventilation, air quality, etc.), to create comfortable healthy environments and encourage more sustainable urban practices.
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Copenhagen regularly tops city comparison charts as the world’s most liveable city and the widespread adoption of cycling is seen as being integral to this success. However the process of making Copenhagen a cycling city required top-down push factors as well as bottom-up pull factors and many of measures imposed were deeply unpopular and thought to be unworkable when they were first proposed.
London is transforming its cycling provision but the impressive progress has started from a low base and it has been nearly all bottom-up rather than a combination of bottom-up and top down. Is there a case for a more interventionist approach?
Host:
Claus Grube, His Excellency the Danish Ambassador in London
Chair:
Carl Pittam, England Director, Sustrans
Speakers:
Professor Sir Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Riccardo Marini, Director, Gehl Architects
Klaus Bondam, CEO of The Danish Cyclists Federation and former Mayor of The Technical and Environmental Administration in The City of
Copenhagen
We would be delighted if you could join us at this by-invitation only event.
If you would like to attend please register here. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come basis.
For security purposes sign-up is essential and participants must present picture ID. Bags may be searched.
Venue:
Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane Street London SW1X 9SR
Timing:
Arrival 4.00
Debate 4.15 - 6.00 pm
Drinks and networking – 7.00 pm
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