City Series is a public lecture series in Leicester that delivers free events relating to a wide range of urban topics, such as architecture, history and geography. This is a collaboration between Leicester City Council, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, and Loughborough University, with speakers from those institutions and from the wider community.
The latest event with feature a series of talks from outstanding local, national and international speakers on making streets work better for people through better design and management.
17.30
Chair’s introduction: Polly Billington, Director, UK 100
Key city challenges: air quality for health and wellbeing in the public realm
17.40
Jon Orcutt, Director of Communications & Advocacy, Transit Centre, NYC
A international take on civilised streets – and how to achieve them
17.55
Cllr Adam Clarke, Deputy City Mayor, Leicester
Leicester’s vision for civilised streets
18.10
Brian Deegan, Design Engineer, Urban Movement
Delivering Leicester’s draft streetscape
18.25
Facilitated Q+A
The event forms part of the ‘Transforming Cities’ Conference, with more details available here: http://landor.co.uk/transformingcities/2018/home.php