Green Urbanism & Beyond

Cities all over the world are looking for new ways to incorporate urban green space into their sustainability agendas - but what can green, more sustainable cities look like and how can we work to realise these ideas? How can concepts such as green infrastructure, green and sustainable urbanism and biophilic cities be vehicles in this development?

Keynotes:

Galen Cranz  - Professor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley

Theodore Eisenman - PhD, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Amherst

Gunilla Lindholm - PhD, Senior Lecturer at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Nina-Marie Lister - PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University

Michael Neuman - Professor of Sustainable Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster

Moderator:  Hélène Littke

Registration necessary to attend as space is limited.

Please send your registration to morganes@kth.se latest by 2nd of June (No show carries a cancelation fee of 250 SEK)

Green Urbanism & Beyond: The Role of Green Space in Urban Planning and Design is part of the Athena Talks series, annual international one day conferences on a leading urbanism paradigm and its relationship to the phenomenon of urban planning and urban design. The conference is organized and funded by the Center for the Future of Places (CFP), School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Stockholm, Sweden and is a part of the Graduate Program in Urbanism Studies at KTH Stockholm.

Poster: Athena Talks - Green Urbanism & Beyond (pdf 1.7 MB)