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FUTURE CITIES

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Organisation:	General Section
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Date of Event:	Start Date: 17/09/2010 End Date: 17/09/2010
Time of Event:	Start time: 16:00 - End time: 17:45
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Event Summary:	Cities are growing – fast. Every week 1.3 million more people arrive in cities, and by 2050 some 70% of the world's population will be city dwellers. But what will cities of the future be like? Will they be managed sustainably and if so, how? What will they look like and be like to live in? This event, taking place in one of Britain's largest cities, will look at the changes in store.
Audience level:	4. All adults
Event Category:	Environment
Keyword:	Cities; weekly pass
Booking information:	Included in weekly pass
Venue:	MB549, Aston University

Event Agenda

17:30 - 17:45	Discussion Dr Jon Turney -	General Discussion

17/09/2010 16:00 - 16:10	Future cities: Introduction Dr Jon Turney -	Welcome / Introduction
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17/09/2010 16:10 - 16:50	Smartcities and eco-warriors Professor C J Lim - Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London	Talk
	What is a Smartcity? Instead of a reactive approach to the problems that contemporary life has thrown up, the Smartcity examines how we might live from first principles, taking the key component of any city – its people - as its starting point. And a central component of the Smartcity is urban agriculture: an ecological symbiosis between nature and built form.

17/09/2010 16:50 - 17:30	Beyond sustainability Mr Austin Williams - The Future Cities Project	Talk
	Developing a cogent vision of the future of towns and cities demands clarity about what it is we are trying to create. Architects’ contribution to that vision is compromised today by environmental thinking, which sees buildings as nothing more than consumers of energy and emitters of carbon. To overcome this mindset, we need to look at cities as an idea, rather than as an arrangement of streets.

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