Edge Debate 109: 16:00 - 24th November

George Adams PPCIBSE Spie Prof Roberto Amendolia f’rmly Italian Emb’y the Edge is hosting a series of four thought-leadership discussions Dr Bill Bordass Usable Buildings Trust on the future city of 2030-2040 in partnership with Taylor Wessing Francesca Berriman CIAT Chief Exec and UCEM Richard Boyd Arup Assocs. Jane Briginshaw Design England Lynne Ceeney Lytton Consulting 2. Public and Private Land: Keith Clarke Caroline Cole Colander Mike Cook, Buro Happold As privatisation of Paddy Conaghan Hoare Lea Dr Frank Duffy PPRIBA Co-Founder DEGW public land increases, Prof Max Fordham PPCIBSE Prof Andy Ford PPCIBSE LSBU how can civic urban Dr Tim Forman U of Cambridge Simon Foxell The Architects Practice spaces evolve to Dr Julie Futcher co-founder Urban Generation Bill Gething Sustainability + Architecture Dr Julie Godefroy Julie Godefroy ensure their survival? Sustainability Prof Peter Guthrie University of Cambridge Public open spaces offer the ‘freedom of the city’ where all have a right to Dave Hampton The Carbon Coach roam, to gather or protest, to sit and eat a sandwich or even beg from Hattie Hartman The Architects Journal fellow citizens if all other support has gone. Prof Colin Haylock PPRTPI Haylock P&D Today Stephen Hill C20 futureplanners Mike Hitchens Pell Frischmann Over time urban parks, commons, Metropolitan Open Land and green Sue James TDAG spaces have suffered from a lack of investment, diminishing quality and a Dr Dorte Rich Jørgensen sustainability expert reduced sense of safety. Local councils have been under pressure to Chris Jofeh Arup make savings and privately-owned public space (POPS) is increasingly Prof Paul Jowitt, PPICE Heriot-Watt U relied upon to deliver urban open space - restricting access and removing David Lindsey Max Fordham LLP it entirely if the land is later sold for redevelopment. Richard Lorch Editor ‘Buildings and Cities’ Ciaran Malik AA + U of Arts There is a large body of research that confirms the importance of access to Dr Kerry Mashford interfacing green space and nature for our mental and physical health – and the Anne Minors Sound Space Vision COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the urgency for cities to revisit the value of Hal Moggridge Colvin and Moggridge urban open space. Dr Mike Murray DMPIP Robin Nicholson Cullinan Studio & looking ahead to 2040: Prof Tadj Oreszczyn, UCL Energy Institute Adam Poole Buro Happold • How do planners ensure that access to public open space can be Dr Sunand Prasad PPRIBA P + P LLP secured for the long term? Prof Flora Samuel University of Reading • Should we resist the increasing privatisation of urban space in Andrew Scoones ngenuity Ltd recognition of its true value as a place for all citizens? Prof Richard Simmons Bartlett, UCL • What are the implications for governance and how could community Oliver Smith 5th Studio involvement be better supported? Simon Sturgis Targeting Zero llp Lynne Sullivan LSA Studio Chair: Stephen Edwards, Living Streets Judith Sykes Expedition Speakers: Peter Neal, Peter Neal Consulting Helen Taylor Scott Brownrigg Helen Griffiths, Fields in Trust Ian Taylor FCB Studios Eddie Tuttle CIOB Claudia Carter, Birmingham City University Chris Twinn TwinnSustainabilityInnovation Thomas Perroud, Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas Michelle Wang Hoare Lea Finn Williams, Public Practice Dr Elanor Warwick Clarion Housing Group Online: Zoom Jenny Watt, Builidng Centre Jane Wernick engineers HRW Timing: Tuesday 24th November 2020, 16.00 – 17.30 Prof Mark Whitby PPICE whitby wood To attend please register at: Ollie Wildman Ramboll Albert Williamson Taylor AKT II https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-2040-series-public-and-private-land- www.edgedebate.com access-and-use-tickets-128063181423