Building Livable Cities 2010 @Chennai October 22nd October 22, 2010

Building Livable Cities 2010 @Chennai

Date : October 22nd 4:30p.m – 8:00p.m

Venue : IIT Madras

Agenda :

4:30 - 5:00 pm : Registration

5:00 - 5:15 pm : Blueprint Showcase : Visioning the City Digital Exhibition

5:15 - 5:25 pm : Introduction : Building Livable Cities

5:25 - 7:00 pm : Presentations ( 15 mins each)

7:00- 8:00 pm : Discussion , Q & A and Closing Remarks &Presentation

Speakers Include:

Keynote : Hank Dittmar , Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

Marie Helene Zerah , Institute of Research for Development (Paris )

Henning Thomsen, Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants

Shreya Gadepalli, Sr. Programme Director, ITDP

Jayashree V, Care Earth*

Sudhir Chella Rajan, IIT Madras
*Invited.

About: Building Livable Cities is a multi city investigation to look at ideas to make Indian Cities Livable. As part of the initiative ; symposiums will take place across 5 cities – Bangalore , Mumbai , Delhi , Chennai ,and Ahmedabad between Oct 18-22.The outcome will be presented in a book. The “Urban Visioning “Program titled the Blueprint showcases the urban visions of a number of leading Indian architects . The series will also be podcasted.

The theme of Building Livable cities 2010 is EcoCities - Driving India towards the age of sustainability which will explore strategies that can make Indian cities environmentally sustainable. Today, cities occupy about 2% of the world's surface area and have a disproportionately large impact on the earth’s ecology. According to the United Nations, cities are responsible for 75% of global energy consumption and 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, a large part of the solution towards solving the crisis of Climate Change lies in solving the crisis of Cities. This series of multi city forums is aimed at creating a blueprint of a sustainable future.

Learn More here: www.theurbanvision.com/blc

Official Website: http://theurbanvision.com/blc/