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Nicholas Falk spoke at Ecobuild 2013 as part of a seminar session; Sustainable urban form - compact city or garden suburb? on Wednesday 6th March 16.30 – 18.00

The session considered how the future health of our planet will be determined by our cities. Achieving urban sustainability appears to be an imperative with a short timescale for delivery. Given that sustainability needs to be a balance of social, environmental and economic factors, what are the current drivers for creating sustainable urban environments in our existing cities and what should be the drivers for creating sustainable urban environments? Nicholas was fourth in a line of speakers below:

Developing City Visions - Professor Tim Dixon, Chair, Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment, University of Reading

Urban metabolism - Dr Adriana Allen, Senior Lecturer, Development Planning Unit, UCL

Compact cities: understanding the role of density - Dr Chris Boyko, Senior Research Fellow, University of Lancaster

Garden suburbs? Appropriate solutions with case studies from the Sustainable Urban Neighborhood Network - Dr Nicholas Falk, Founder & Director, URBED

You can view Nicholas's presentation for download in PDF by clicking here

Ecobuild 2013 Nicholas Falk Presentation - Garden cities, compact towns or what? from urbed