2012 Seminar Series

The Purposes of Planning

Urban Futures Seminar Series organised by the Spatial Planning Group, Department of Planning, OBU

• 21 February 2012:
  HS2 - National opportunity meets local catastrophe - a tale of battles, banners and blisters

  Tim Stansfeld - ex Director of Planning SEEDA, walked HS2 route from London to Birmingham

• 28 February 2012:
  "So, Eric, perhaps it really was a red plot all along...?" – Soviet communism and the British planning movement

  Steve Ward - Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes

• 13 March 2012:
  Evaluating heritage-led urban regeneration

  Alan Reeve - Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes

• 20 March 2012:
  Planning for poverty and prosperity

  Yvonne Rydin - Bartlett School, UCL

• 27 March 2012:
  Reconstructing England in the age of stupid

  Hugh Ellis - Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Association

2011 Seminar Series

Future Urban Mobility

• 26 October 2011:
  A social perspective on climate change mitigation in transport

  Dr Karen Lucas, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford

• 15 November 2011:
  Moving around the city: the future role of walking and cycling (pdf)

  Dr Tim Jones, Dept of Planning, Oxford Brookes University

• 5 December 2011:
  Driving into the future. Facilitators and challenges in the transition from conventional to electric vehicles

  Dr Mark Burgess, Dept of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University

Climate Change and the Built Environment

• 14 March 14 2011:The localism agenda and low-carbon communities

  Dr Barbara Hammond, Chair, Low Carbon West Oxford

• 21 March 2012:Evaluating the C-Change European project

  Dr Jake Piper, Oxford Brookes University

• 28 March 2012:Supporting climate change adaptation policy development

  Magnus Benzie, AEA

2010 Seminar Series

• 17 November 17 2010:
  Facilitative Governance and Sustainable Construction

  Dr Jeroen van der Heijden

• 10 November 2010:
  The big Society and the Futures of Cities (pdf)

  Prof Mark Tewdwr-Jones

• 3 November 2010:
  The Social Barriers to Sustainability (pdf)

  Bob Hughes