Future Cities Conference, University of Leeds, 04/02/15
Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) at the University of Leeds is inviting people to attend a one-day conference that will consider the opportunities and challenges facing UK cities of the future.
Future Cities will include keynote speeches from Tom Riordan, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, about ‘The Challenges and Opportunities for the City of Leeds’; John Urry, Lancaster University, about ‘Living in the City of the Future’; and Sir Alan Wilson, University College London and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Leeds, about ‘Science and the Future of Cities’.
The event will be held in the Great Hall on Wednesday, 4 February 2015 between 10am-3.30pm.
The programme, which is subject to change, is given below.
10am Registration and refreshments
10.30am Welcome from Professor David Hogg, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, University of Leeds
10.40am Future Cities (Chair: Professor Adam Crawford, Pro Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law, University of Leeds):
* 10.45am: ‘Science and the Future of Cities’- Sir Alan Wilson, University College London
* 11.10am: ‘Living in the City of the Future’ – Professor John Urry, Lancaster University
* 11.40am: Q&A
* 12noon: ‘The Challenges and Opportunities for the City of Leeds’ – Mr. Tom Riordan, Chief Executive, Leeds City Council
* 12.20pm: Q&A
12.30pm Lunch
1.20pm Cities Research Showcase (Chair: Professor Ian Kirkpatrick, Director of LSSI, University of Leeds) with contributions from Leeds academics about iBuild, Big Data, FESSUD, and Low Carbon Futures, and a response from Mr. Tom Bridges, Chief Economic Development Officer, Leeds City Council
2.00pm Roundtable discussion Rising to the Challenge and Possible Future (Chair: Dr Alice Owen, Sustainability Research Institute) with contributions from Dr Paul Chatterton (University of Leeds); Professor Gary Dymski (University of Leeds); Gerald Jennings (Leeds Chamber of Commerce); Chris Jofeh (Arup); Tom Knowland (Leeds City Council); and Richard Jackson (Voluntary Action Leeds)Questions for consideration:
* What challenges need tackling first?
* What are the key enablers of success for different cities?
* What are the most important decisions in preparing for the future and how can research inform / influence them?
3:15pm Closing remarks from Professor Phil Purnell, University of Leeds
Attendance is free but it is necessary to book<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-cities-tickets-14288969693?utm_campaign=new_eventv2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventurl_text> in advance: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-cities-tickets-14288969693?utm_campaign=new_eventv2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventurl_text. Places are limited by the size of the venue and so early registration is recommended.
Follow the event on Twitter at #FutureCities15
The conference is being staged in response to the Government’s Foresight Future Cities Group<https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/future-of-cities> (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/future-of-cities) a project for which Sir Alan Wilson sits as Chair of the Lead Expert Group and for which John Urry authored one of the first reports, ‘Living in the City’<https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/336660/14-801-living-in-the-city.pdf> (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/336660/14-801-living-in-the-city.pdf).
The Group aims to identify the opportunities and challenges UK cities will face in the future, which cities need to embrace in order to be resilient, adaptable and thrive.
For further information about the conference please contact Susan Darlington<mailto:[log in to unmask]> at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Key speaker biographies
Sir Alan Wilson<https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=AGWIL25> FBA FRS is Professor of Urban and Regional Systems in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He is Chair of the Home Office Science Advisory Council and of the Lead Expert Group for the GO-Science Foresight Project on the Future of Cities.
He was responsible for the introduction of a number of model building techniques which are now in common use internationally – such as the use of ‘entropy’ in building spatial interaction models – summarised in Entropy in urban and regional modelling. He rigorously deployed accounts’ concepts in demography and economic modelling and is now working with dynamical systems theory to model the evolution of urban structure. His current research, supported by ESRC and EPSRC grants, is on the evolution of cities and the dynamics of global trade, migration, security and development aid.
He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1991 to 2004 when he became Director-General for Higher Education in the then DfES. From 2007-2013 he was Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is a Member of Academia Europaea, an FBA, an FAcSS and an FRS. He was knighted in 2001. His recent books include Knowledge power, published in 2010, The science of cities and regions and his five volume (edited) Urban modelling, both in 2013.
John Urry<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/john-urry> BA, MA (Economics), PhD (Sociology), Cambridge. Director of CEMORE and Distinguished Professor, Lancaster; Fellow and former member of Executive of Academy of Social Sciences; Chair RAE Panel (twice); Honorary Doctorate, Roskilde; Founding co-editor of Mobilities; Scientific Advisory Committee of UNESCO’s 2013 World Social Science Report. Published c40 books and special issues including Mobilities (2007), After the Car (2009), Mobile Lives (2010), The Tourist Gaze 3.0 (2011), Climate Change and Society (2011) Societies beyond Oil (2013), Offshoring (2014), Energy and Society (2014). Work translated into c20 languages. John Urry authored one of the first working papers published by the Government Office for Science Future of Cities project on the opportunities and challenges facing cities of the future.
Tom Riordan was born and educated in Northallerton and graduated with a modern history honours degree from Trinity College Oxford in 1989. He immediately joined the civil service’s fast stream management scheme with the then department of the environment and progressed quickly through a variety of jobs, specialising in environmental policy and representing the UK in international negotiations on climate change and endangered species.
Tom gained a first class Masters in business administration at Imperial College, London in 1997, specialising in regional economic development networks, and returned to Yorkshire with the task of setting up the regional development agency which became known as Yorkshire Forward. Once it was successfully established, he became its chief executive in February 2006.
Tom’s achievements at Yorkshire Forward include record performance in attracting foreign investment into the region, securing award-winning regeneration developments and helping 100,000 businesses during the recession.
In March 2010, Tom was honoured at the Yorkshire Post environment awards as the region’s ‘green champion’, as the individual deemed to have done most to promote environmental measures, following his visionary work in pioneering carbon capture initiatives. In October 2008 Tom led a task force for the Chancellor that co-ordinated the response to avert job losses in the financial services sector.
Tom is also a trustee of The Trust for Education and was previously co-chair of the Government’s national ethnic minority business task force. As one of Bradford University’s honorary graduates in July 2008, Tom became a Doctor of Letters.
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