Beyond Poundbury

Demonstrating leading-edge ideas in innovative urban thinking:
An essential experience for those involved in the planning, design and building of developments

Past Events

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2010

Removing the roadblocks: Highways, hierarchy and shared surfaces

10th June 2010, Perth, Scotland
Discover how sustainable low carbon communities based on linked walkable neighbourhoods, mixed uses and compact urbanism, should be intimately linked to the design, construction and maintenance of roads and streets [ More Info ]

2009

1   Valuing Sustainable Urbanism: The financial bottom line

2   Structuring settlements: The Poundbury experiment

3   Removing the roadblocks: Highways, hierarchy and shared surfaces

4   Transit-orientated development

5   Zero carbon communities and the eco town: Upton exemplar project

6   Mixed use: Getting the right mix

7   Getting the details right: Architectural tuning

Watch a selection of Poundbury Speakers in action: Dan Cruickshank, Roger Scruton, Ben Bolgar, Douglas Duany, Simon Conibear, Peterjohn Smyth, Ben Pentreath and Noel Isherwood.

Watch another short video, "Poundbury: Building Communities".

Three compounding factors are changing our lives: by the year 2050, the global population will have risen from six to nine billion; the average temperature will have risen by between 2 and 6°C; and—without a technological breakthrough—depletion of oil and gas will have brought an end to cheap energy. Buildings and transportation make up more than half of carbon emissions, so finding practical solutions to this global catastrophe through smart development is essential.

Poundbury, the urban extension to Dorchester, England, is recognised worldwide as one of the most advanced solutions to urban settlement in the twenty-first century. It is used by the UK government as a model for new development and enhancing rural economies.

The Poundbury Series, launched in 2007, is a series of lectures and tours which are an essential experience for those involved in the planning, design and building of housing developments in the UK and beyond. Those involved in the development of Poundbury, along with other experts, will demonstrate through a series of lectures, workshops and visits how to implement these cutting-edge ideas. The underlying principles, established by the masterplanner, Léon Krier, and put into practise by the Duchy of Cornwall, will be analysed to help improve popular and specialist understanding of the place.
Find out more about the design and development of Poundbury

As the government and development industry search for an appropriate model for sustainable development in the twenty-first century, the Poundbury Series offers the opportunity to reflect on a model initiated by The Prince of Wales twenty years ago, which continues to gain credibility, not only in the UK but around the world.

Poundbury Series 2009:

View details and presentations from The Poundbury Series 2009