This is an awesome talk, particularly interesting for someone like myself who lives across Sydney and London. So much to take from this. I think most importantly are the Rogers' final principles for what he calls an 'urban renaissance':
- Intensification of exiting settlements on derelict land.
- Intensify buildings around public transportation.
- Quality of design of public open spaces and buildings.
- Encourage walking, cycling and public transport.
- Reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050.
- Recognise that wealth distribution, climate change and quality of the built environment are critical issues.
- Combine architecture, planning and landscape architecture to a single degree.
Please watch: "UNSWTV: Entertaining your curiosity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ7UO8nxiL0 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Lord Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal.
Feature image courtesy Andrew Zuckerman.
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