CSEI Seminar Series 2022

CSEI Seminar Series 2022

Integrated Urban-Infrastructure Planning for Environment-Positive Cities

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Background

Population growth creates demand for more homes, and new residents require access to infrastructure. It has become increasingly clear that the various challenges facing urban areas – economic, environmental, climate, social and demographic – are interwoven: that is why successful urban developments can only be achieved through an integrated, systems approach. Better aligning land use and infrastructure planning can improve urban development and is a positive way to influence the shape, structure, and economic, social, and environmental performance of a city, improving social outcomes and sustainability. Planning land use and green-grey-blue infrastructure together encourages development in places that can accommodate growth and identify the optimal and most sustainable way to deliver the required services and infrastructure. This integrated nature of land and infrastructure planning would also help meet the requirements of The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which sets out the Government’s economic, environmental and social planning policies for England and which covers a wide range of topics including: housing, business, economic development, transport and the natural environment.

It is in this context that the 2022 CSEI Seminar Series will explore how a systems approach to integrated land and infrastructure planning is key to achieving climate change mitigation and a reduction in carbon and other forms of pollution. The seminars will also highlight how integrated planning can help us overcome the broad challenges we face to achieve our carbon reduction and sustainability ambitions. The series aims to offer different perspectives – from academia, industry and policy – and to be very interactive.

Format

• Welcome and Introduction [5 minutes, Dr Ana Mijic]
• Speaker’s presentation on a topic relating to the benefits of integrated planning of land and infrastructure (green-grey-blue) and the challenges such an approach might present [30 mins]
• Q&A [20 minutes]
• Close [5 minutes, Dr Ana Mijic]

Speakers

• Professor Alexander ‘Sam’ Fernald, Professor of Watershed Management and Director, Water Resources Research Institute, University of New Mexico, USA, Modeling human and hydrologic systems for water sustainability, 24 February 2022 11:00

• Professor Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and a Turing Fellow in the Alan Turing Institute, Urban Digital Twins: Families of Simulation Models for Urban Analytics, 26 April 2022 12:00

• Joanna Averley, Director of Planning at Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Integrated Urban Planning - A perspective on the latest developments in national government policy, 12 May 2022 12:00

The Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation is part of the wider Systems Research at Imperial community.