ULI UK Webinar: The Next Decade for Neighbourhoods – Is Wholescale Reinvention Needed?

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2020-06-02
2020-06-02T09:30:00 - 2020-06-02T10:30:00
Europe/London

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    Online Webinar This webinar will be hosted by Zoom. UNITED KINGDOM
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    Looking Ahead to Our New 'Normal' (Post COVID-19 World)  
     
    The last few months have seen changes in our lifestyles that we could never have imagined a few months ago. Our city and town centres have emptied as we have stayed at home and within our local neighbourhoods. As we look ahead to a socially distanced world for the foreseeable future, what changes do we need to make to how we plan, design, and manage our neighbourhoods, towns, and cities, to respond to changes in how we are living, working, shopping, socialising, and exercising. 

    Speakers

    Graeme Craig

    Places for London

    Graeme is TfL’s Commercial Development Director and is responsible for its land and property across the capital. This includes an Estate Management function that manages over 5,500 acres of operational land and over 30 office buildings across London. Graeme also runs TfL’s commercial property function, which is delivering an initial programme of 10,000 homes (half of which will be affordable) across more than 50 sites. Graeme’s team will be developing over two million square feet of commercial offices across seven sites, including at Bank, Paddington and Southwark. TfL has over 2,000 commercial tenants (of which 86 per cent are small businesses) with a large portfolio of retail units in and around stations, as well as over 750 arches across London. All net revenue raised from the commercial activity is returned to TfL to reinvest in London’s transport network.

    Selina Mason

    Lendlease

    Selina Mason is a masterplanner and architect with extensive experience of delivering complex urban masterplans, now driving high quality design and masterplanning across Lendlease UK and Europe urban regeneration portfolio. Before joining Lendlease, she led LDA Design’s urban regeneration masterplanning team in London where she delivered the UCL East Masterplan in Stratford for UCL and the regeneration masterplan for Church Street in Westminster. Prior to this she was responsible for the delivery of the London 2012 Masterplan and the design and delivery of the post-games Transformation Masterplan for the Olympic Delivery Authority and subsequently the London Legacy Development Corporation. Before joining the ODA in 2007 she was Director of Architecture and Design Review at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) where she was responsible for the second edition of the CABE/EH Guidance on Tall Buildings which remains current guidance on designing and delivering tall buildings. Selina is recognised as a leader in her profession through the Design Review panels she is Chair of including Havering, and Wandsworth and Richmond. She is also a member of the Otterpool panel, and until recently the HS2 panel. She also represents RIBA on the Highways England Design Panel and is a Rome Scholar in Architecture.

    Roger Nickells

    Partner, BuroHappold Ltd

    Roger is a true engineering visionary and has worked on urban scale projects in a wide number of global cities, both at a building, district and city scale. Projects like The Burj Al Arab; Dubai; Saadiyat Island and the Louvre, Abu Dhabi; Battersea Power Station Development; Tottenham Hotspur's new Stadium; Atlanta Falcons Stadium, Swansea Tidal Lagoon and the new Euston Station development for HS2. Roger's career includes spells running design and consulting businesses for Atkins in Oman, Dubai, the Middle East Region and in Buro Happold; initially running their Middle East business, then their global cities business; then as the CEO and now leading their consulting offer. These roles provided Roger with significant understanding of all of our markets, most specifically, the Middle East, UK and the US. His current portfolio spans teams from LA to Hong Kong and projects as diverse as County Climate Plans, Value Chain consulting, resilience, technical consulting and large-scale master-planning. Buro Happold is a world leader in economic redevelopment at city and district scale.

    Paula Hirst

    Disruptive Urbanism

    Paula is an established leader in the regeneration and sustainable development of cities and urban environments. Paula is a Director at Prior + Partners, which seeks to unlock the potential of places through its strategy, planning, and urban design skills. Paula has worked on some of the most challenging and complex projects in the UK and overseas; supporting city authorities, developers, and investors to deliver long term regeneration of existing neighbourhoods, towns, and cities, as well as new communities in new places. Paula has held senior client and consultancy positions at HS2 Ltd, Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, Homes England, Future Cities Catapult, Olympic Delivery Authority, Greater London Authority, Atkins, and Mazars in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Paula is a member of the ULI UK Executive Committee, ULI Europe’s Urban Development and Regeneration Council, and Design South East’s Design Review Panel. Paula has a comprehensive understanding of the key trends impacting on neighbourhoods, towns, and cities, to be able to assist them in responding to changes underway and on the horizon. Whilst living in Bow in Tower Hamlets, Paula established a new town centre forum to rejuvenate Roman Road, a once thriving fashion street, to support its transformation through the changes in how we live, work, shop and spend time. Currently resident in Hackney, Paula feels as if she and her family are at the centre of a live experiment in how neighbourhoods are both addressing and failing to address community needs during this pandemic. Paula has sought to initiate and develop the conversation around how neighbourhoods should be evolving to respond to the challenges presented by living through Covid19, through Prior + Partners recent publication regarding the pandemic and impacts on life and design. Paula holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, a Masters in Social Policy and Voluntary Sector Organisation, and a Masters in Business Administration.