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The Thames Gateway is Europe's largest regeneration project in one of the world's most dynamic cities with plans to create 160 000 new homes and some 180 000 new jobs.
A revitalised, connected network of existing neighbourhoods as well as new settlements will be created involving the remediation of several thousand hectares of brownfield land. These "sustainable" communities will be places where people will be able to live and work, learn and relax in their locality, with space for new services from transport, health and education to shopping and leisure.
But how can we:
- create these new places and develop their functionality and sense of identity?
- make these places destinations of choice for Londoners and new settlers from around the world?
- ensure the Thames Gateway delivers a lasting architectural legacy, with homes better designed to respond to the challenges of climate change?
London Thames Gateway Development Corporation contacted a number of eminent design researchers and professionals to address these and other questions for the first time over two days in November 2006 at the Thames Gateway Forum. LTGDC discovered a substantial body of research work on the subject that was not previously publicly available. This information is summarised for your reference in the new executive summary or in more detailed in the final full report.
In May 2007, it was decided to revisit that dialogue and invite other professionals to make their contribution before an influential audience of their peers, developers and investors at the Second London Thames Gateway Futures Symposium. Please click here to read the second executive summary or the detailed second report here.
Do you agree with their views? Contact us, join the debate and have your say!
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