Making Places from Spaces

I attended the Making Places from Spaces morning conference at Cityscape. One of my favourite speakers was Jason Prior, Vice President of EDAW, who spoke about masterplanning in the Lea Valley. He spoke about the strategy for after the Olympic Games and showed some fantastic images of how Lea Valley will be transformed and integrated back into London. Patricia Brown from the Central London Partnership talked about creating places where people want to be. She spoke about reclaiming back London for the people by improving transport, walkability, connections etc. Professor Robert Bruegmann from the University of Illinois at Chicargo spoke about the history of sprawl and how it can be economically, socially, environmnetally and aesthetically problematic.