This Autumn, the Academy has hosted a series of weekly sessions of insightful presentations by past finalists of the Urbanism Awards. We have been reunited with representatives from cities, towns, neighbourhoods, streets, and places that the AoU has praised as exemplars of good urbanism and we’ve heard how these places are continuing to find inspiring ways to face the challenges of today.
What better way to draw the Urbanism Awards Revisited programme to a close than an afternoon of celebration and reflection? Joined by our lead assessors, we welcome back 15 Great Places across five awards categories to share their thoughts and ideas in an open discussion.
The 15 past finalists joining are:
CITIES: Aarhus (Denmark), Bilbao (Spain), Utrecht (The Netherlands)
TOWNS: Frome (England), Derry/Londonderry (Northern Ireland), Paisley (Scotland)
NEIGHBOURHOODS: Merchant City (Glasgow), Kelham Island (Sheffield), Grand Canal Quarter (Dublin)
STREETS: Argyle Street (Glasgow), Oliver Plunkett Street (Cork), Park Lane (Poynton)
PLACES: City Park (Bradford), Viking Triangle (Waterford), Peace and Winter Gardens (Sheffield)
The session also features poetry by the Academy’s poet-in-residence Ian McMillan and a panel of Young Urbanists on the future of urbanism in a session called ‘People, Planet, Resilience’. Panellists include:
Sean Vincent Kelly, Senior Project Officer, Connecting Nature, Glasgow City Council
Floriane Ortega, Manager and Adaptation Lead, Cities and Regions, The Carbon Trust
Simeon Shtebunaev, Doctoral Researcher, Birmingham City University
Roxana Slavcheva, Global Lead, Connected Places Catapult
Chair: Dr Ombretta Romice, Senior Lecturer, Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Special Thanks to the AoU Awards Sponsors
Grosvenor, JTP and Savills