The Liveable City is a biannual city conference organised by the Danish Embassy in London about how we create cities that are better places to live, work and play. Our Director, Tara Gbolade had the opportunity to speak at this event.
More and more people live in ever larger cities around the world. It creates a host of challenges, and it has put the question of how to create liveable cities for all on top of the international agenda.
To help further the discussion, the Danish Embassy in UK organises The Liveable City conference in partnership with leading UK stakeholders. Denmark has a long tradition of creating beautiful cities with healthy residents and a high quality of living, and The Liveable City conference will be a celebration of great achievements in architecture and urban planning.
The conference has so far been hosted in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh.
Denmark has a long tradition of creating beautiful cities with healthy residents and a high quality of living, and The Liveable City conference looks at best practice within:
· Masterplanning and Architecture
· Housing
· Smart City
· Urban Mobility and sustainable transport
· Climate Adaptation
· Green Buildings
· Clean Air
The aim of the conference is to share best practice and provide the latest insight into how Denmark and UK can inspire each other to create better cities.
This year's summer edition will for the first time take place online due to COVID-19. The webinar will be part of London Festival of Architecture's (LFA) official programme, and will focus on how the pandemic puts new demands on the urban space.
Earlier, architects, consultants and contractors tried to create urban spaces where people gathered, but the pandemic has forced a massive behaviour change. The citizens of the city are now spreading, and this places new demands on how to design the urban space. Demands that may continue even when the pandemic is over.
So how to plan our cities after the pandemic? How will it overall affect the way we think about architecture? In addition, will the pandemic help us make our cities more liveable and further the green transition – or the opposite? These are some of the questions that will be discussed during this webinar by some of the decision makers in the industry.
The event is free to join on Eventbrite and speakers will among others include Camilla Van Deurs, Chief City Architect, Municipality of Copenhagen. Sign up for the webinar here.
