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A group of over 150 urban designers, architects and planners are visiting Bristol today to learn about how the city is delivering on its green agenda as Bristol prepares for its year as European Green Capital in 2015.
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The conference is organised by The Academy of Urbanism, a not for profit organisation which celebrates and learns from good places. The Academy will be bringing its membership of leading architects, planners, developers and place-makers to Bristol to learn from initiatives delivered by the city and its entrepreneurs.
Delegates will hear from prominent local speakers including Mayor George Ferguson who was a founder of the Academy, Peter Lord, joint founder of Aardman Animations, Green Capital Director Kris Donaldson and the city’s new Strategic Director for Place Barra Mac Ruairí. They will be joined by leading international urbanists including the former Mayor of Curitiba Jaime Lerner, who over three terms, implemented a series of transformational social and urban reforms.
Mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson said: ‘The annual Academy of Urbanism Congress is a great opportunity for cities to share thinking about how good urbanism can be deployed to create healthier, happier and fairer cities. We are very excited to be hosting the congress here in Bristol this year, sharing our knowledge and exchanging ideas as we prepare to be European Green Capital in 2015.’
The group will visit some of the city’s key sites including the regenerated harbourside, Brunel Mile and Stokes Croft. They will also look at ‘live’ opportunities for Bristol through a series of workshops including ‘place-making’ in the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, where green initiatives such as district heating and superfast broadband are being built into the development, self-build housing provision, and the relationship between traffic and pedestrians through ‘shared space’.
The event is set to influence thinking and practice around the UK and Europe on green topics such as health and wellbeing, development, city planning and creative economies.
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