New London Vernacular/Urban Qualities

Public Lecture and workshop
Wednesday 26 April 2017
G12 – 22 Gordon Street

One of the challenges of London’s real-estate led urban development model is to build new urban places with good qualities within the current financial and institutional envelope; architects, planners, practitioners and communities all grapple with this. This event brings together practitioners, scholars and community members to look at how responses to these challenges are emerging in new urban places across the city and to consider ideas for enabling better urban outcomes. We take as a starting point plans for what is to be potentially one of the largest new urban developments in the UK, the site of one of the first Mayoral Development Corporations at Old Oak Park Royal.

Programme

Lunch time workshops: 12-2pm
(Lunch will be provided in the meeting rooms; please register your interest with Katia Attuyer (K.Attuyer@ucl.ac.uk)

1. Including community voices in urban planning and design
Chair: Dr Katia Attuyer
Mark Walker (Chair, interim Old Oak Neighbourhood Forum)
Sharon Hayward (London Tenant’s Federation and Grand Union Alliance)
Charles Campion (JTP Partner in charge of participatory planning processes)

2. Balancing the priorities in urban development (including tour of exhibition)
Chair: Prof Jennifer Robinson
Mick Mulhern (Director of Planning, Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation)
Ray Rogers (formerly, Hackney Council, Heritage and Urban Design)
Taffy Adler (CEO Johannesburg Housing Company)

Public Events
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2.00-3.30 Panel: “Urban Qualities”
Presentation: Simon Kretz, co-author (Lecturer for Urban Design, ETHZ School of Architecture; Salewski and Kretz Architekten)
Discussant: Patrick Weber (Director for Exhibitions and Urban Design March; Tutor at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, Director at storpweber architecture, London)
Respondent: Prof Christian Schmid (Professor of Sociology ETHZ School of Architecture; formerly ETH Studio Basel)

3.30 pm Plenary Lecture
Lee Polisano, RIBA FAIA (President PLP; lead on the master planning for Old Oak Park)
“Pioneering Urbanity in an Expanding Capital”
Discussant: Prof Peter Bishop (Bartlett School of Architecture; former head, ‘Design for London; Director, Allies and Morrison-Urban Practitioners)

5pm: Drinks reception.
Exhibition of Plans and designs for Old Oak Park Royal and Book Launch of Urbane Qualitäten: Ein Handbuch am Beispiel der Metropolitanregion Zürich (A Handbook with reference to Zurich metropolitan region)

This event is part of a wider ESRC-funded research project, Governing the Future City: A comparative analysis of governance innovations in large scale urban developments in Shanghai, London, Johannesburg. The event is open to the public, and is directed at London-based practitioners, planners and community groups, and all those engaged in the planning and design process. All are welcome, but as places are limited (some are reserved for invitation) and for catering purposes please sign up for attendance at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-london-vernacularurban-qualities-registration-33281395550