What the past can teach the future: guest lecture, symposium and exhibition
The Architecture Foundation
New New Town is part of the Architecture Foundation’s planned three-year programme of research and projects into the past and future of creating new settlements.
The UK and Europe is currently seeing the growth of new settlements at a large scale, both under construction and proposed. Governments are seeking to create new and sustainable communities through building new infrastructure, linking to existing urban centres, providing new jobs and strengthening the local economy of each area. But these new settlements raise as yet unanswered questions: how can new communities be created from scratch? What is the role of architecture and planning in shaping new settlements?
New New Town programme falls into a public talk and a symposium in February 2008, a competition and exhibition Building a New Town for the 21st Century in 2008. The progamme will address such issues as: how can you plan for the unplanned? How can community be created? Is the future suburban? How can the experience of past and current projects contribute to building exciting, successful, inclusive and sustainable new settlements?
