June 17 2020 /
Post-pandemic countryside: a perspective from China
ABSTRACT: The talk discusses the role of the countryside in wider city-regional systems. It recognises the opportunities they can offer for a healthy life, but also the need of long-term investments in more sustainable models of rural development. Some take aways from the Chinese experience, and the so-called 'digital countryside', are reported – Giulio Verdini is Reader at the School of Architecture and Cities of the University of Westminster and Director of the BA Designing Cities: Planning and Architecture
Expected in 2021 /
The impact of climate change on informal built environments
The workshop will address (with reference to the real situation of an area of the city) some of the most significant problems that will be originated by climate change, the consequences of large-scale urbanisation, significant technological innovations