University of Greenwich has recently hosted a national symposium on urban design in Deptford and Greenwich and discussed the various actions needed to build a superior quality urban living in a period of 20 years.
The Reinventing Greenwich conference has enabled the young city designers to work along with their guides to turn out new design ideas for the Greenwich town center. The other participants of the event had the chance to make a trip to Olympic Park site.
Queen Anne Court, Greenwich campus, University of Greenwich
Professor Neil Spiller, School of Architecture, Design & Construction’s Dean, while delivering the welcome address stated that they are reenacting a thrilling new beginning in the school and other changes will follow the suite. He said that the University for the first time ever has organized a conference that deals with the future of the cities under the demanding, demographic, ecologic and economic periods. He concluded saying that while populating the new constructions in Stockwell Street all efforts will be taken to increase global and local partnerships to tackle the urbanizing problems.
The conference also offered presentations by Barry Shaw, who leads London Docklands as Head of Urban Design and Niall McNevin, Olympic Park legacy’s Director of Planning Urban Design and Sustainability. During the other sessions arranged during the conference, the topics such as the role of the developer, newer technologies to manage the speed of the vehicles to ensure safety for other road users, role of the shared space in street design, use of streets and design of cities for 21st century.
During the conference, which took place from 20 to 22 October, Urban Design Group the campaigning organization has arranged Cities 2030: Live – Work – Play, in association with the University of Greenwich. Various events of the conference took place at the Laban in Deptford, Devonport House and at the Greenwich Campus of the University. The conference concluded with arranged walking tours of the Greenwich World Heritage Site, the Millennium Village, and the Greenwich Peninsula.
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