GCHU Public Seminar: Can Community-Led Planning Make Cities More Adaptive and Healthier? 🏙️🌿
As cities face the dual pressures of the climate emergency and widening public health inequalities, new approaches are needed to build resilience and trust. This seminar, part of the Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) Public Seminar Series, brings together four experts to explore how community-led planning and deliberative democratic processes can shape healthier, more adaptive cities.
Speakers will examine the links between climate risk, health outcomes, and urban planning, discussing how citizen assemblies and participatory decision-making can support more equitable and effective adaptation strategies.
What to expect:
- 🌡️ How climate change impacts health at the city level
- 🏗️ The role of urban planning in climate adaptation
- 🗳️ Citizen assemblies and participatory planning
- 🧭 Policy challenges at national and local levels
- 🎤 Short provocations from four expert speakers
Speakers:
- Professor Adam Briggs – University of Southampton & Oxfordshire County Council
- Dr Audrey de Nazelle – Imperial College London
- Lucy Bush – Demos
- Dr Rosalie Callway – Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)
Chair:
- Timothy J. Dixon – Emeritus Professor, University of Reading; Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College / GCHU
Refreshments will be served from 17:00, with the seminar beginning at 17:30, followed by a drinks reception at 18:30.