James Heartfield

Director of audacity, based at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, and author of Let's Build! - Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006)

Website: www.audacity.org and www.heartfield.org

e-mail: Heartfield@blueyonder.co.uk

11.30 to 13.00 on Friday 18 May 2007

The humanising of terrestrial space

In this session, chaired by James, Solly Angel and Bob Bruegmann will discuss the wider prospects for development to meet the needs of growing populations, in the developing and the developed world.

Shlomo Angel, Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, New York University, Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, principal investigator and co-author of The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion (2005) for the Transport and Urban Development Department of The World Bank - Making Room: Preparing the Planet for Urban Expansion

Robert Bruegmann, Professor of Art History, Architecture, and Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Sprawl: A Compact History (2005) - What happens when governments manage growth?

The humanising of terrestrial space

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What priorities do we want reflected in land use planning?

Has the notion of a distinct town and country become unsustainable?

Can planners reconcile government policies with where and how people actually want to live?

Is it justified to describe policies based on constraining building activity as "planning"?

Introduction

James Heartfield

With a foreword by Robert Bruegmann

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