Congress / Programme

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	DAY 2: FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2015 The Rep Theatre Centenary Square Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EP
08.30	Registration and Refreshments
09.15	Chair’s Welcome to Birmingham Congress Steven Bee AoU, Chair, The Academy of Urbanism SESSION ONE: HEALTHY CITY NARRATIVE – SETTING THE CONTEXT Birmingham – Towards a people-centred urbanism Sir Albert Bore, Leader, Birmingham City Council Are our cities costing us our lives? Dr Adrian Phillips, Director, Public Health Birmingham Healthy and Creative Cities – Creating the conditions for a better urban life Charles Landry AoU, Comedia Q & A
10.45	Coffee Break
11.15	SESSION TWO: APPLICATION OF HEALTHY CITY THEMES People, Place & Time – Designing the UK’s national high-speed rail network Sadie Morgan, Chair, HS2 Design Panel & Co-Founder, dRMM Architects The Seven Pillars of Well-being: Creating and sustaining healthy places through integrated planning and implementation Prof Peter Roberts, Vice-Chairmain, Northern Ireland Housing Executive Active by Design: designing places for healthy lives Rachel Toms, Active by Design Programme Leader, Cabe at Design Council Aarhus – City of Smiles Stephen Willacy, City Architect, City of Aarhus Q & A
13.00	Lunch
13.45	SESSION THREE: LEARNING FROM BIRMINGHAM 1. How To Lose Your Ring Road and Find Your City Centre, facilitated by Dr Nicholas Falk AoU, URBED; Sir Albert Bore, Leader, Birmingham City Council 2. A Vision For Movement/ Birmingham Cycle Revolution, facilitated by Michael Parkinson, Partner, Peter Brett Associates 3. Active Living by Design / Changing Behaviour, facilitated by Ben Percival, Sport & Leisure Service Manager, Leisure & Community Health, Walsall Council 4. Housing Options for Older People and Creating age Friendly Neighbourhoods, facilitated by Mike Walsh, Senior Service Manager – Policy & Commissioning, Birmingham City Council; Janet Sutherland, Director, AoU 5. Tackling the obesogenic environment: the role of planning, design and regeneration professionals in creating a healthier food environment, facilitated by Shaleen Meelu, Public Health Nutrition Specialist, Public Health Birmingham 6. Connected Communities – High-Speed Rail & Transport Infrastructure – Urban Place Shaping, facilitated by Henk Bouwman AoU, Director, The Academy of Urbanism. FEEDBACK
16.30	SESSION FOUR: GLOBAL LEARNING KEYNOTE SPEAKER Happy City Charles Montgomery Urban experimentalist and author
17.30	Close

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