Colleagues,

We hope that you will be able to join us for the CTS seminar this week.



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CTS Seminar: Centre for Transport Studies, UCL

Urban Street Planning and Design: A German Perspective
Prof. Dr Ing Helmut Holzapfel
Institute for Integrated Transport Planning
University of Kassel

16.00  Wednesday 5 October 2011
Chadwick 218
Chadwick Building, UCL

Abstract
The role of urban streets within a city as places where people can meet or talk has been neglected for quite some years in Germany. Research projects have shown that the dominating function of streets as a 'Link', primarily for through traffic, has reduced the quality of living in urban quarters.
The seminar will describe new approaches to street planning and design in Germany, which set out to restore the traditional qualities of urban streets.


About the speaker

Helmut Holzapfel (born 1950) studied civil engineering, transportation science and urban planning. From 1975 until 1985 he worked at the Technical University of Berlin as a transport scientist.  In 1980 his PhD thesis was published in English (Trip Relationships in Urban Areas). Between 1980 and 1985 he led the transport section of an interdisciplinary research group on "Energy and Society".
From 1985 to 1993 he was a government official at the Transport Ministry of North Rhine Westphalia. During that time he held several different posts (Policy Advising Unit, Regional and Urban Planning Institution, Environmental Department).
Between 1993 and 1995 he was Professor of Transportation planning at the University of Kassel, Germany.
From 1995 until 1998 he was leader of the Transportation section of the Ministry of Transport, City Planning and Building in the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt, where he was responsible for all transport buildings and organisational questions of transport in the whole state.

Since 1998 Helmut Holzapfel is full professor and leader of the Institute for Integrated Transport Planning (VIA) at the University of Kassel, and from 2003 to 2006 he was Dean of the faculty of Architecture and Planning of the University of Kassel.

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Benjamin Heydecker
Centre for Transport Studies
University College London

Tel: 020 7679 1553
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