Building Livable Cities 2010 @ Mumbai on Oct 20th October 20, 2010

Building Livable Cities 2010,Mumbai.

Date: October 20th 4:00 – 7:30 pm

Venue: Hall of Harmony , Nehru Centre

Agenda :

4:00 - 4:30 pm : Registration

4:30 - 4:45 pm : Blueprint Showcase : Visioning the City

4:45 - 4:55 pm : Introduction : Building Livable Cities

4:55 - 6:30 pm : Presentations ( 15 mins each)

6:30- 7:30 pm : Discussion , Q & A and Closing Remarks &Presentation

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

Henning Thomason , Jan Gehl Urban Quality Consultants

Mr. Robert Angioletti., French Environment & Energy Management Agency *

Shreya Gadepalli, Sr. Programme Director, ITDP

Mr. Nasser Munjee, Chairman , DCB*

Mayank Gandhi ,Secretary , ROMF

* 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/