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Reading 2050: a Smart and Sustainable City Reading 2050: A Smart and Sustainable City Book Published Version Dixon, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4513-6337 and Farrelly, L., eds. (2020) Reading 2050: A Smart and Sustainable City. School of the Built Environment University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp81. Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/93297/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . Published version at: https://livingreading.co.uk/publications-events Publisher: School of the Built Environment University of Reading All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online Reading 2050 a smart and sustainable city? Edited by Tim Dixon and Lorraine Farrelly School of the Built Environment University of Reading Public Lecture Series (2017–2019) Copyright: No part of this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the editors and the appropriate contributing author. This book has been developed in partnership with Barton Willmore and Reading UK. ii Contents Foreword 3 1 Introduction: The Reading 2050 Public Lecture Series 4 Part 1: Place and environment 2 Reading 2050 vision 8 3 Reading’s history and heritage 15 4 The Urban Room at the School of Architecture, University of Reading 19 5 The future of energy in Reading 22 6 The future of transport and mobility in Reading 27 7 Climate change and the zero carbon challenge in Reading 35 Part 2: People and lifestyle 8 Transforming the Museum of English Rural Life: past, present and future 41 9 Nature and people in our urban future 44 10 Measuring Reading’s resource consumption – an application of urban metabolism 48 Part 3: Economy and employment 11 Developing a Smart City Cluster in Thames Valley Berkshire 57 12 What Reading’s history teaches us about its ability to harness green technology to drive its future 61 13 The Future of Reading in the greater south east in a changing economic landscape 66 14 Delivering national growth, locally: the role of Thames Valley Berkshire LEP 72 15 What impact will population change, and other factors have on housing in Reading by 2050? 77 2 Foreword Imagine living in a city that is so smart and sustainable that it is The University of Reading has been part of the fabric of this place, a joy to live there. The advanced technology used throughout in one form or the other, since the 1860s. The connectedness this city makes working there just that bit more efficient and between town and gown has always been strong, but my vision enjoyable. The energy used in this city is also largely generated for the University is strengthen this relationship further. The there, and its carbon footprint is a tiny size 5. Public transport contributions to this book by so many colleagues, and the is fully integrated and walking and cycling are given priority editorship of two of the University’s professors, Tim Dixon over cars. This city is no killjoy either, and its heritage, modern and Lorraine Farrelly, already shows some aspects of this architecture, nature parks and connectedness to its rivers invite connectedness. both inhabitants and visitors to dwell through this city with a But there is more we can do together. For the University, that surprise around every corner, both during the day and at night. means using our longstanding research expertise, such as that in Now imagine this city is Reading. climate change and environmental sustainability, for the benefit of the people of Reading. It also means creating more access to our I know Reading is not a city, but that is just a matter of time. I education and our facilities. We can also help to connect Reading also know that Reading is not this smart and sustainable city to many parts of the world, through our students who come from right now but, with the right vision, it is a deliverable aspiration all over the world and through our global partnerships. We need for the future. Living through a time of major upheaval due to to do all this in partnership, and make sure that the University of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, where so much has Reading is also the University for Reading. changed so quickly, the changes we need to make envisaged in this book appear eminently achievable. The book you are about to read offers a vision of a smart and sustainable Reading; the University of Reading very much wants This collection of articles, based on the ‘Reading 2050 lecture to be part of, and help deliver, this amazing city. series’, all envision Reading as this smart and sustainable city of the future. In fourteen chapters based on the lectures, it Professor Robert Van de Noort considers Reading in 2050 from all angles: the place and its Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading environment, the people and their lifestyle, the economy and future employment. 3 Introduction: The Reading 2050 Public Lecture Series 1Tim Dixon and Lorraine Farrelly School of the Built Environment, University of Reading The continuing impact of extreme global weather events and the But this progress raises a question: what sort of a place should recent coronavirus pandemic have placed our cities and urban Reading be in 30 years’ time (2050)? This is especially pertinent areas under huge pressures. Probably for the first time since the when we think about the huge environmental challenges that all second world war these events are testing the sustainability and our towns and cities face now and in the future. After all, Reading resilience of our cities and their hard and soft infrastructures has a current ambition to become zero carbon by 2030. So how to the limits. In an uncertain world we will need to reconcile will it tackle the urban challenges it faces, and how will it use ourselves to whether cities need to re-densify or de-densify, technologies to become a ‘smart and sustainable’ place to live? and what will be the impacts of the pandemic on longer-term These are some of the crucial questions that the Reading 2050 patterns of working and living? How can technology improve project is focusing on. response times and resilience in urban emergencies without The Reading UK 2050 project was established in 2013 by the endangering privacy? What sort of communities will we want to University of Reading, Barton Willmore and Reading UK CIC (the belong to when the pandemic is over, but when climate change ‘Reading 2050 partners’) to deliver a strategic, long-term vision is still a burning reality? How will our communities and urban that will support Reading’s growth and prosperity, and help ensure environments evolve in response to this crisis and longer-term we can deliver a legacy of a truly smart and sustainable city, by environmental pressures? 2050. Through a series of workshops and sessions with a wide It’s now more important than ever therefore that we think about range of organisations and people from across Reading and the the future and the places that we want to live, work and play Thames Valley region we are developing an economically viable in. Take the case of Reading, for example. Based on an ancient and evolving future vision for Reading in 2050 which links and bridging point at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet rivers, informs Reading Borough Council’s Local Plan and the Reading Reading’s history stretches back to Anglo-Saxon times, and Climate Change Emergency Strategy (2020–25). perhaps beyond to the Roman occupation. The growing interest in The Reading 2050 Vision was launched in September 2017, and Reading’s culture and heritage, founded on a rich and often hidden the lecture series which forms the basis of this book helped past, is established on its iconic buildings, such as the medieval create a platform not only to discuss and debate how Reading Abbey and nearby prison, ‘home’ to Oscar Wilde for two years. should evolve to a smarter and more sustainable future by 2050, Reading’s more recent industrial heritage is also important to but also to help inform the continuing development of the vision remember through the three (or four) Bs of beer, biscuits, bulbs, and provide an important channel for public engagement. The and bricks (Figure 1.1). Today, Reading is a very different town to series started from the premise that to understand the future the one of years gone by, before the Inner Distribution Road was of a place the present and the past must also be understood. built and when trolley buses still ran. The Reading-Wokingham urban area (with parts of West Berkshire) now has a population of The Public Lecture series (hosted by the interdisciplinary School 318,000 and feels more like a ‘city’. Despite continued deprivation of the Built Environment) ran from October 2017 to October in some areas, it has responded to economic cycles with agility, 2019, and was structured around three themes which underpin innovation and strong growth, helped by the high number of the Reading 2050 vision: start-ups and the hi-tech multinationals located here, such as • Place and Environment Microsoft and Huawei. • People and Lifestyle • Economy and Employment. The full lecture series is listed on page 6. 4 Figure 1.1 Reading: the four Bs 5 Place and environment LECTURE 12 | 29 November 2018 Future Health and Quality of Life in Reading LECTURE 1 | 19 October 2017)
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