Guest lecture and symposium
// from 20 to 21 February 2008 / Rich Mix Cultural Foundation 35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA / UKgau:di New New Town
New New Town: what the past can teach the future
Guest lecture, presented by well-respected scholar Lars Lerup, on Wednesday 20 February 2008, from 7pm-8.30pm
Symposium on Thursday 21 February 2008, from 9am-6pm
More details on www.newnewtown.com
The Architecture Foundation London in cooperation with urban drift productions Ltd Berlin.
New New Town is a symposium aimed at development, planning and architectural professionals, with a linked public talk and exhibition, which seeks to draw lessons for the future from experience of the past and the present. The consequences of the hugely ambitious British New Towns programme, launched by the New Towns Act de 1946, will be examined, alongside exemplars in continental Europe today.
Speakers at the symposium 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?
