Creating Resilient Communities
Recent events in Christchurch have highlighted the many ways change can affect our cities and the important role design and designers play in creating resilient urban environments that support and nurture communities.
In this Unitec Forum for the Future 2011 video, panellists plus a live studio and online audience discuss 'Creating Resilient Communities'.
Facilitated by Rod Oram with panellists Ken Smith, Landscape Architect, New York; David Shearer MP for Mt Albert; Patrick Clifford, NZIA President; Ludo Campbell Reid, Urban Champion, Auckland Council; developer Brady Nixon; and Matthew Bradbury, a Senior Lecturer in landscape architecture at Unitec.
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The newly established Auckland Council is developing a 30 year vision and strategy, the Auckland Spatial Plan, with the aim of making Auckland the world’s most liveable city.
Auckland is facing significant growth pressure - it's expected that 600,000 people will arrive in Auckland in the next 20 years.
Where they will live?
How they will travel around the city?
What will happen to Auckland's unique landscapes?
These are critical issues for all of us and issues that need to be addressed. The panel is a group who are all deeply interested in how cities work and how different regimes, planning, design, and finance can be used to effect change. The challenge is how to make cities resilient, so that our communities are able to develop in a socially and ecologically equitable city.
Hosted by Unitec’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of Architecture.
Unitec Forum for the Future 2011: Creating Resilient Communities - Part 1
View full video coverage of this Forum, held on Thursday July 21.
Now in its third year, the Unitec Forum for the Future 2011 90-minute sessions feature a panel-style debate that brings together community and business leaders, academics and students in a live event.
The forum sessions are open to the public of New Zealand, either through attendance, or by tuning in via live streaming. Internet viewers around the country will have the opportunity to interact with each session via @UnitecNZ #UnitecFTF on Twitter, email and web cam (using Skype).
The third session of the Unitec Forum for the Future 2011 – Be the Change: Enriching Maori Entrepreneurship is on Thursday, 4 August at Unitec in Auckland.
