Urbanisation and the Environment
Tuesday, 9th October 2007

Chair:      Mark Watts (Senior Policy Advisor for Transport, Air Quality and Energy, Greater London Authority)

Mark Watts (Senior Policy Advisor for Transport, Air Quality and Energy, Greater London Authority)
Scene setting – challenges facing London as a global city

Rainer Zimmann (Associate Director, Arup)
Dongtan eco city: a demonstrator for a ‘new paradigm of urban development’

Rab Bennetts OBE (Bennetts Associates Architects)
Designing for sustainability

Stephen Wells (Group Business Development Director, Costain Group)
Regeneration projects in West Africa:  historical perspective 1947 to 2006

Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy (SWITCH Scientific Director/Professor of Sustainability, UNESCO-IHE)
SWITCH: Changing the way we manage water in the city of the future

Jon Pavey (Environment Division, Mott MacDonald)
Homo sapiens urbanus...a threat to the UK’s natural environment?

Chris Lavery (Director, Mouchel Parkman)
Rochdale – creating the model for urban regeneration