UDG AGM plus Vitality & Viability

Wednesday 18 June 2014 - 18:00 to 20:30
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ

A wide-ranging consideration of how design can be used to turn around flagging settlements. How can high aspirations be translated into a viable financial proposition?

How can effective urban design and management transform places?

Free admission for UDG Members arriving before 6.00 pm!

6.00pm prompt start for UDG Annual General Meeting

Members are encouraged to attend to hear what the UDG has been doing over the past year and to receive the Annual Report and Accounts.

The new UDGExecutive Committee and Chair for 2014 will also be elected.

Vitality and Viability

  • Findings from the CABE viability workshops - Clare Devine, Director CABE
  • Vitality and viability through smaller schemes - Liz KesslerWhen public funding is scarce small schemes may be all that is possible; but coordination with other budgets, and a long-term strategy carried out transforms small schemes into sizeable impact. Find out how¦.
  • Economic, social and health impact of public realm projects - Martin Weddernburn What research and practical experience tells us, looking at the background to the CABE Paved with Gold research, the TfL Valuing Urban Realm toolkit and recent developments including public health and the public realm.

Questions / Discussion

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Urban Design Group AGM

Agenda

The Annual General Meeting of the Urban Design Group, to be held on Wednesday 18 June 2013 at 6.00pm in the Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. Approval of the minutes of the 2013 AGM
  3. Approval of Annual report and accounts
  4. Election of Officers and Executive Committee
  5. Any other business