Events: detail
Concreting the countryside, a 21st Century Challenges event
- Hosted by:
- Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- May 13, 2008 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- May 13, 2008 at 09:00 pm
- Location:
- Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
> Where will we build 3 million new homes in 12 years?
> Is the Green Belt still justified today?
> Are we in danger of building the ‘slums of tomorrow’?
> Are the Home Counties becoming literally just that – homes?
As part of 21st Century Challenges, the Society’s new flagship public engagement series, Simon Jenkins (Guardian columnist) will chair
Sir Peter Hall (urban geographer & Town & Country Planning Association Chairman) & Martin Crookston (Director of Llewellyn Davies Yeang,
urban economist & town planner) discussing how to accommodate South-East England’s housing expansion. Issues will include brownfield versus greenfield sites, eco-towns, community cohesion and purposeful architectural design.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
Additional information
Tickets: RGS-IBG Members £10, non-Members £15
Book tickets online:www.rgs.org/Whatson/21CC or by phone: +44 (0)207 591 3100
Details online: www.rgs.org/21stcc/countryside
Entrance to the Society is via Exhibition Road
Nearest tube: South Kensington
For more information
- Contact person:
- Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
- Phone:
- 0207 591 3100
- Website:
- Concreting the countryside, a 21st Century Challenges event
