Routes to Smarter Urbanisation: What Europe Could Teach the East about City Living
Nicholas Falk, Executive Director, The URBED Trust

Tuesday, October 17, 2 pm
New York University London
6 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury

Nicholas Falk founded URBED in 1976 and is an economist, urbanist and strategic planner with
degrees from University College Oxford, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the London School of Economics. He specializes in helping towns and cities plan and deliver urban regeneration and sustainable growth. He is the co-author of URBED‘s submission on Uxcester Garden City that won the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize. In the last few years, his work and interests have focused on new communities, the future of the suburbs, historic centers, and the adaptive reuse of old buildings. This lecture will focus on his work with sustainable-housing projects in India: www.smarterurbanisation.org.
Dr. Falk is a Visiting Professor at the School of the Built Environment, University of the West of England. He is a member of the TCPA’s Policy Advisory Council, an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His many publications on new settlements include Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods: Building the 21st Century Home with David Rudlin (Architectural Press 2009), Regeneration in European Cities: Making Connections (JRF 2008), and contributions to Sir Peter Hall’s last book Good Cities Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism. (Routledge 2014).
Sponsored by the NYU M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture
http://as.nyu.edu/arthistory/programs/graduate/master-of-arts-in-historical-and-sustainable-architecture-.html

Event flyer available here: https://nyu.box.com/s/5armmgrz4ytex9ew3xvu7m86whzalq4z

Free and open to the public