A CIHT London Region Event
(Members from all Regions of CIHT are welcome to attend London Region Events.)
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2016
Time: 08.45 for 09.00 start
Venue: Arup, 8 Fitzroy St, W1T 4BJ
Nearest Tube: Warren Street
Subject: Breakfast Event - What Makes a City Walkable?
Susan Claris will present the elements of what makes a walkable city drawing from her experience in the field and based on the Cities Alive: Towards a walking world research. She will give an insight on the walkability of cities – a very basic part of transport that is usually neglected - as well as case studies of successful examples. The presentation will be followed by a workshop exercise where participants will be given an example street and suggest ideas of improving the walkability.
The session will be used to generate discussion between members on what they think the issues and priorities are when planning for walking.
Speaker: Susan Claris
Susan, an Associate Director in Arup’s Transport Consulting Group in London, is a transport planner and anthropologist with significant public sector experience and a particular interest in walking and creating more liveable and healthy communities.
Susan’s career has focused on public sector clients, including Highways England, the Department for Transport, the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, the Welsh Government and various local authorities. Susan has also worked on research activities in Arup, e.g. urban mobility for the World Economic Forum’s SlimCity initiative and urbanisation for Arup’s Drivers of Change programme. Susan led Arup reviews of the UN-Habitat Global Report on Human Settlements 2013: Planning and Design for Urban Mobility. Arup was a strategic adviser to the C40 group of cities and Susan was project manager for “UrbanLife” workshops.
Prior to joining Arup, Susan worked for the Department for Transport in London for six years. Susan is also a Trustee of Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking.
Susan lives in London and describes herself as a passionate pedestrian.
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