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Future Cities. Delhi Workshop- Taj Palace February 2014 Jon Price – Director [email protected]. Leadership and social innovation in Urban design and planning. UK perspective - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Transcript of Future Cities
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Leadership and social innovation in Urban design and planning
UK perspectiveDevolving leadership responsibilities - 2010 Localism Act v’s National Planning Policy Stimulus - Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 / Help to buy housing schemes/ deregulation
Reducing public sector funding and local budgets
High growth of BIM – increasing building controls for energy use / materials
Better understanding of socio technical impacts
Latest research trends in the UK Cities as catalysts for change and sustainable development
Sector to holistic thinking
Green Buildings / Ecosystems services
Connecting worlds - health and welling to engineering and design
Big data – smart cities
UK’s strengths and weaknesses Strengths: Depth and breadth of research capacity, Systems Thinking, Innovation, international collaboration, providing technical assistance to implementation.
Weaknesses : Building Stock, Financial Support, Realising the vision
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Breakout Session
What are the research questions to be tackled in this theme? (10 mins)
·What UK and Indian research expertise can contribute to this theme? (10 mins)
·How can the UK and India work together to address the research challenges identified? (10 mins)
·What mechanisms of collaboration are needed? (10 mins)
·What other individuals/ companies/ policy makers/ expertise/disciplines are needed to address these challenges? (10 mins)
