DIGITAL FUTURES: Planning New Homes and Jobs for the 21st Century.
September 19th 2001, BT Showcase, Central London
This conference will address two sets of issues:
"How will new technologies affect the shape of our cities and regions?"
Will the effects of e-commerce, home teleworking, and 'wired up
communities' mean new patterns for housing and commercial development?
Will this mean changes to the shape and form of towns and cities?
Will today's e-revolution mean changes to the shape and structure of our
environment, as dramatic as those of the industrial revolution, and will
those changes be in the interests of sustainability?
"How can we use new technologies to better plan for our cities and
regions?"
How can interactive tools such as the internet help us plan online ?
does this mean democratisation of the planning system ? Is there best
practice to be learnt from abroad?
This conference is for:
- policy and planning officers in regional and local government
- private sector corporate managers and strategists
- development and forward planners independent policy researchers and
'think tanks'
- providers of the new services and industries
- housebuilders and commercial developers
- consultants in planning and development
All delegates receive, upon registration, a free hardback edition of
Digital Futures: Living in a Dot Com World (2001) Edited by James
Wilsdon, Earthscan, London (usual price £19.99).
Authors range from Jonathon Porritt of the Sustainable Development
Commission to BBC Newsnight's Economics Editor Evan Davis. Delegates
will have an opportunity to review the book's findings and identify the
implications for environmental policy makers today.
For further details visit:
URL: http://www.tcpa.org.uk/conferences.htm
URL: http://www.tcpa.org.uk/
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