The global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and magnified issues of urban inequality and environmental justice. Quarantine measures and the shut down of city centres have highlighted the extent to which urban land is dominated by road and car parking infrastructure. In many places, air quality has improved, nature has become more prominent and neighbours are starting to speak for the first time. This online lecture series organised by the Planning Society at Queen's University Belfast, will explore, through comparative practice, how planning can reimagine our cities to enhance well-being through creating more vibrant, sustainable and biodiverse places.

Lecture series: 

HEALTH: 3rd June at 15.00

"Neuroscience and the City" by Araceli Camargo, Director - Centric Lab - https://www.thecentriclab.com/aracelicamargo

COMMONS: 9th June at 15.00

"Participatory Processes in the Post-Pandemic City" by Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse - https://urban-policy.com/

INFORMALITY: 19th June at 15.00

"Shaping the Self-Constructed City" by David Gouverneur - Weitzman School, University of Pennsylvania - https://www.design.upenn.edu/landscape-architecture/people/david-gerard-gouverneur-malakoff

NATURE: 24th June at 15.00

"Making Urban Nature" by Piet Vollaard- The Natural City / City in the Making : http://www.naturalcity.nl/about/

Image credit: Niall Patrick Walsh - @niallpwalsh