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London Conference
5-6 Dec 2005, London
Background and purpose
The aim of the 2nd annual SOLUTIONS conference was to present the work in progress on the research project.
The sessions on the first day of the Conference covered topics of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, and academics and researchers in the area of land use and transport planning, neighbourhood design, and assessment. Sessions on the second day covered topics of interest to academics and researchers interested in the theory of urban form and techniques of micro-scale modelling of land use and transport. Experts were invited to comment on SOLUTIONS work and to share their knowledge from an international perspective.
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The Programme
Day 1: Mon, 5 December 2005
9:00 am – 9:30 Registration
Session-1: London and Wider South East Case Study (Strategic Scale)
Chair: Professor Sir Peter Hall, UCL
9:30 – 10:00 Introduction to the conference
Professor Marcial Echenique, Cambridge University
10:00 – 10:25 Land use transport modelling for SOLUTIONS using LASER
Dr Ying Jin, WSP Group
10:25 – 11:00 Land use and transport options and initial findings
Dr Tony Hargreaves, Cambridge University
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 11:50 Comments on London strategic study
Professor Malcolm Buchanan, Colin Buchanan and Partners Ltd
11:50 – 12:20 Discussion
12:20 – 1:10 Lunch
Session-2: Local design
Chair: Professor Mike Jenks, Oxford-Brookes University
1:10 – 1:30 Social inclusion, local land use/movement patterns and initial work on
Hillingdon
Hugh Barton, University of the West of England (UWE)
1:30 – 1:50 Findings of local design scenarios, Cambridge
Marcus Grant, UWE
1:50 – 2:10 Surveys of accessibility
Dr Sarah Hills, UWE
2:10 – 2:30 Comments on local design
Professor Roderick Lawrence, University of Geneva
2:30 – 3:00 Discussion
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee
Session-3: Assessment of options
Chair: Professor Mike Batty, UCL
3:30 – 3:50 Assessing the sustainability of development options for outer urban areas: Some issues for the SOLUTIONS project
Dr Gordon Mitchell, Leeds University
3:50 – 4:10 Strategic modelling and economic assessment
Professor Marcial Echenique, Cambridge University and Professor Marco Ponti, Politecnico University of Milan
4:10 – 4:30 Comments on assessment criteria and framework
Professor Lars Lundqvist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
4:30 – 4:50 Discussion
4:50 – 5:15 Coffee and close
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Day 2: Tue, 6 December 2005
9:00 am – 9:25 Registration
Session-1: Seminar on urban pattern specification
Chair: Dr Stephen Marshall, UCL
The purpose of this seminar was to bring together for discussion and debate expert knowledge from distinct perspectives on urban form and patterns, cutting across different traditions including qualitative characterisation of form, urban morphology, quantification and indicators of forms and patterns, and patterns or forms used in sustainability testing and design guidance.
9:25 – 9:45 Archetypal urban layouts
Professor Phil Steadman, UCL
9:45 – 10:00 Historical stratification in urban form
Professor Jeremy Whitehand, University of Birmingham
10:00 – 10:15 The SCATTER project
Professor Mike Batty, UCL
10:15 – 10:30 The VivaCity Project
Professor Alan Penn, UCL
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion on application of urban pattern specification
11:00 – 11:25 Coffee
Session-2: Micro-scale modelling
Chair: Professor Michael Wegener, Spiekemann & Wegener, Germany
11:25 – 11:45 Objectives of micro-scale modelling
Professor Marcial Echenique, Cambridge University and Dr Tony Hargreaves, Cambridge University
11:45 – 12:20 Micro-scale modelling: Method and initial results
Dr Geoffrey Caruso, Cambridge University
12:20 – 12:35 Comments on SOLUTIONS micro-scale modelling
Professor JD Hunt, University of Calgary
Session-3: Concluding session
12:35 – 12:55 Comments on urban pattern specification and micro-scale modelling
Professor Mike Batty, UCL
12:55 – 1:25 Open discussion
1:25 – 2:15 Lunch
2:15 pm Close
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