Urban Indicators: Transformation and Climate Proofing
Bridging the Policy/Practice Divide 4th March 2014 River Room 2, Tower Building Univ. of Dundee, DD1 4HN A seminar and networking lunch hosted by the University’s Geddes Institute for Urban Research and the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR). The format is short high impact presentations from three leading practitioners followed by a facilitated discussion. The underlying theme is new approaches to characterizing and measuring change within urban environments, particularly in the use of indicators, to promote a...
Urban Regeneration: A Titanic Task?
Professor Deborah Peel, the new Chair of Architecture and Planning at the University of Dundee, used the Titanic Quarter and the waterfront regeneration of Queen’s Island in Northern Ireland for her Discovery Days lecture to identify some parallels between Belfast and Dundee. She pondered on how the disaster of the sinking of the Titanic was being re-imagined to assert the grand scale thinking of that city. “Dundee and Belfast share a ship-building and textile history and they are both engaged in major water-front transformations, seeking to address the difficult legacy of brownfield land and u...