Sustainable Places: Rejecting Roads, Sustaining Streets

About this event

This online Sustainable Places event will explore how our cities and built environments contribute to health, the climate crisis and sustainability, and why an integrated cross-sector approach to real estate and urban design is crucial. 

The focus is often on carbon emissions during construction and use of buildings and structures, but broader impacts like biodiversity, social sustainability and governance extend beyond the building and real estate cycle, and are often under-considered. 

In this event we’ll share new ideas demonstrating that a more integrated approach is needed between environmental, social and economic sustainability.  

Using the example of the daily activity of walking, we’ll discuss how the built environment can make walking either possible or impossible, and in turn contribute to long-term health and the climate crisis. 

We’ll explore integrated and interdisciplinary ways of creating sustainability through the geography of place, breaking down barriers between specialised industry segments and investment sectors.  

We’ll discuss how ‘sustainable urbanism’ and ‘healthy urbanism’ can create integrated, wide-reaching change, and how the real estate industry can respond to these challenges and opportunities.   

Recording and accessibility

The session will be recorded, and the recording and written transcript will be shared with attendees after the event.

We want to make our events accessible for everyone, and we encourage you to let us know if you have any accessibility requirements including:

• Presentation slides in advance for screen readers
• Live closed captions during the event
• Live British Sign Language interpretation during the event
• Any other requirements

Please contact Alma Daskalaki, Bartlett Faculty Events Officer at a.daskalaki@ucl.ac.uk with accessibility requirements. Please note we require two working days' notice for requests.