Our London City Hall Forum 2019
We will be back at City Hall, London on 26th June this year to run our regeneration, planning, transport and energy conference. This will be an important year for the UK in terms of developing vital infrastructure for economic advancement and social cohesion, providing homes to solve the housing crisis integrated into city regeneration, and harnessing the benefits of green energy. Claire Perry MP, Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strateg
Sadie Morgan urges collaboration
We were delighted to have Professor Sadie Morgan speaking at our Future Cities Forum held at Royal Arsenal Woolwich today, and joining the first panel discussion with BexleyCo, London City Airport and KPMG. Sadie explained that when she founded dRMM Architects with Alex de Rijke and Philip Marsh, they set out to create architecture that is innovative, high quality and socially useful, bound by an aspiration to make things better. She has continued to advocate the need to broa
NIC's Chief Executive, Phil Graham on video
We are now releasing the video of Phil Graham, the NIC's Chief Executive who spoke at our May forum 'The Making of the Modern City' for members of our community who prefer the visual medium of video over the previously posted podcast. Phil spoke passionately about the need for joined up infrastructure and housing strategy nationwide, but particularly in relation to the "Camkox" corridor - as the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Arc is sometimes referred to. He said that the big
Arup on future infrastructure and re-balancing the UK
The head of Arup’s Infrastructure Design Group, Tim Chapman, has been speaking about the power of sustainable infrastructure to change societies for the better, at our recent ‘The Making of the Modern City’ forum at City Hall, London in May. The forum was opened with a key speech by National Infrastructure Commission's Chief Executive Phil Graham talking about the need for joined up infrastructure and housing. Tim gave a presentation which ranged from unlocking the regenerati
NIC's Phil Graham on joined-up transport and housing strategy
Chief Executive of the National Infrastructure Commission, Phil Graham, made the opening speech at our City Hall, London event, 'The Making of the Modern City' - full of insight and vital guidance on creating future infrastructure and connected housing. His speech is now available to listen to in its entirety (above) Phil said: "The NIC is very interested in cities as they can provide a more sustainable model of living - with lower CO2 use per head - than countryside settleme
VeloCity 'turns planning on its head' at Future Cities Forum
We are extremely pleased to welcome Jennifer Ross, Director of Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, to our Future Cities Forum on 8th May at City Hall, London, where she will be speaking on our first panel alongside L&G Capital and Transport for London discussing new models for infrastructure-led regeneration. Tibbalds is a practice with expertise in design-led spatial planning projects involving the creation of the new and the enhancement of existing places in the UK and abro