Walking and cycling strategies and design guidance: what's the point?

Walking and cycling are now main-stream political priorities:

• London boroughs are revising their strategies and plans in response to the Mayor's Transport Strategies,
• The Department for Transport has produced national guidance on network planning for walking
• Transport for London is preparing pedestrian design guidance.

This evening lecture, given by:

Phil Jones, one of the UK's leading experts on street design, walking and cycling

Feryal Demirci, Deputy Mayor of Hackney with responsibility for Transport;

Naomi Baster, Principal City Planner. Active Travel and Health at TFL

will cover:

• the importance and value of walking and cycling strategies, plans and design guidance
• how to produce high quality documents that will have impact
• the impact on urban design, and
• how campaigners and designers should engage.

Organised by London Living Streets and the Urban Design Group