A Greater London Branch Presentation
Subject: Accessibility and Urban Crisis 8 billion footfalls in 20 megacities
Date 03 October 2012 6.00 for 6.30
Venue: SKM Colin Buchanan New City Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RS
Nearest Tube London Bridge
Accessibility and Urban Crisis: If the collective future for humanity is to be increased urbanisation within mega cities of +15-million people, how do we plan for such cities?
According to Wikipedia " London is the most populous city and metropolitan area of the European Union." Greater London is home to over 9 million people and if we include the London Commuter Belt, the figure is approaching 14 million. In only a few years' time we will be Europe's first Mega-City.
In the last ten years we have seen numerous cities across the world invest billions into creating mass transit systems to serve their growing cities, this in response to their growing concerns regarding economic and functional accessibility. While current political and professional opinion would support this strategy, potentially we are not yet understanding the intensity of such mega cities to truly understand their actual demands. This talk, given by Peter Dijkhuis, explores the functional relationships in cities, critically focusing on the very nature of growth, to ask the question “how do we give greater accessibility to opportunities that cities bring within such spatial limitations?”. Peter Dijkhuis is an urban designer, master planner, town planner and landscape architect who has given numerous international papers on the subject of Future Cities.”
Speakers
Professor Nick Tyler is the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCL and Pro-Provost, South and South-east Asia.
Nick considers that the purpose of engineering is to serve the world’s population with the aim of making the world a better place – i.e. engineering is a public service. He works with clinical, engineering, social science, arts and humanities researchers in order to explore exactly how a person interacts with their immediate environment. Nick’s research portfolio amounts to some £20 million in funding from Research Councils, industry and government and he has established research projects in Latin America, Japan, China and the EU as well as in the UK. Nick is the UK PI on an extensive Chinese research and application project “Low Carbon City Development” in which approximately £2 billion is being invested by Chinese cities in the development of practical low carbon initiatives in cities including Guangzhou, Shanghai ad Nanyang. He is a member of the EPSRC Experts Group on Infrastructure. He is a Co-investigator on the £6m EPSRC Programme Grant “Transforming the Engineering of Cities”.
Nick is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Transport Research Foundation. He was appointed a CBE in the 2011 New Year’s Honours for services to technology.
Peter Dijkhuis, BLArch MCPUD TRP(SA) MRTPI, Associate Urban Design / Strategic Masterplanning / Landscape Architect / Town Planner
Peter has over 23-years experience working in the private sector in the UK, Ireland, China, India, Dubai, Egypt, Kuwait and South Africa. During this period he has acted as Project Director, Lead Consultant and Project Manager, Master Planner, Urban Designer, Landscape Architect and Town Planner, undertaking a range of projects that have varied in scale, complexity and location. Peter has managed these projects from inception at design concept and masterplanning stage; site appraisal and economic viability testing; full project consultation, preparing planning submission reports, through to gaining planning consent.
Projects have included the preparation of Local Plan policy, Supplimentary Planning Guidelines, urban design frameworks, area design codes and design of street furniture manuals. Select projects have been taken forward with the preparation of tenders and detailed construction drawings to site implementation and completion.
Increasingly, Peter has been involved with the preparation and facilitation of complex public/private partnership' development strategies undertaking masterplanning, economic modeling, legal contract, consultation with political parties at local and national level, and preparing and giving evidence at Public Inquiries.
Peter has been an expert witness for various Public Inquiries held in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Peter has extensive experience in public address. He has presented projects to clients, stakeholders, at public consultation, Executive Council meetings, Ministry Departments in the Middle East, and State Government in India.
Peter is currently the project manager of a multi-disciplinary team preparing a new planning policy comprising (Local Plan): a land use classification system; zoning plan; planning, transport and environmental regulations; and identified development action areas. The Local Plan demonstrated that land use planning and transport planning are inextricable linked and required detailed, co-ordinated policies in order to manage and monitor change in the built environment
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