Gerald Mills, an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, is a physical geographer with an interest in city climates. His current focus is on the World Urban Database Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT), which is a community-based initiative to create a global database on cities suited for climate studies.

Katja Stille, Tibbalds and Roger Evans, Studio Real.

In the second part of this talk Matthew Carmona asks why the results reported in A Housing Design Audit for England are as they are. To do this he explores correlations between the headline results and a range of market, contextual and design governance factors and against resident and community views.

In the first part of this talk Prof Matthew Carmona explores the results of A Housing Design Audit for England. He explains how the audit was conducted and provides the headline results, nationally and regionally as well as a more detailed discussion of the seventeen audited design considerations.

Katja Stille BA(Hons) DipArch MA(Arch) MA(UD) Assoc RTPI is a Director with Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design. Katja specialises in large scale projects, spatial strategies and design policy, working with public sector bodies, private landowners and their teams to develop masterplans and development frameworks to help bring forward development.

David Harrison. London Living Streets.

Dr Rachel Lee is Policy and Research Coordinator for Living Streets, a campaigning UK Charity promoting an environment that encourages and inspires people to walk more. Living Streets is governed by volunteer trustees with a network of members, local groups and supporters.

Cat White is Associate Director of Planning with the planning and development consultancy Turley at their Southampton office in the UK.

Roger Evans is an architect, urban planner, urban designer and founding director of Studio Real based in Oxford UK. He is a past Chair of the Urban Design Group and has taught as a visiting lecturer on urban design at several UK university courses. He has been a member of advisory panels to government, writes extensively in the professional press on urban design issues and sits on several local authority design review panels. Roger is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and a former Trustee of the Urban Design Group. He has led major urban design studies for a wide range of historic, new and emerging towns and cities throughout the UK and also in Europe and the Middle East. He has a special interest in urban form and how good urbanism can be achieved through the planning system

Tim Pharoah’s approach to placemaking evolves and continues to be ahead of its time. Tim Pharoah MSc, MCILT, MCIHT, MTPS is a transport and urban planning consultant with more than 40 years experience of transport and land use planning, street design and urban regeneration. He provides specialist advice on a wide range of urban issues, and disseminates experience through lectures and training events. Before becoming an independent consultant he worked in local authorities, private consultancies, and the academic sector. He is a keen advocate of planning for vibrant urban communities through integrated accessibility and public realm design and speed management. He has always perceived mass private motorised transport as a serious threat to urban quality of life, and consistently argued and worked for the prioritisation of modes that are urban-compatible. He was closely involved in the fight against urban motorway proposals in London and Edinburgh in the early 1970s, and has promoted traffic limitation ever since. He has been involved in over 150 widely varying projects including the design of specific places, areas and town plans, and regional and national policy studies. In addition to involvement in projects in the UK and other countries, he has managed, authored or contributed to a number of national best practice guides and reports, including the award-winning Manual for Streets (DfT, 2007) and Traffic Calming Guidelines (Devon County Council, 1991). Tim has a wide knowledge of international best practice, and makes effective use of this in projects in the UK and elsewhere.

Griff Rhys Jones is President of the charity Civic Voice which has the core objective of engendering civic pride by making places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. He is well known as a writer, actor, tv programme producer and presenter. With a broad portfolio he has a particular interest in and knowledge of building conservation, architecture, landscape and planning.