Birmingham | Biophilic cities
Designing cities that love nature
Tim Beatley, Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia will give a presentation at the University of Birmingham entitled Biophilic Cities: Designing Cities that Love Nature. All CIAT members are welcome.
Evidence continues to build that the benefits provided by contact with nature are profound and deep. Biophilia holds that we are innately drawn to nature and living systems. Daily contact with nature is not optional but absolutely essential to leading a happy, healthy and meaningful life. We need more biophilic buildings, but we need as well to design the spaces between and beyond buildings to include abundant nature.
Professor Beatley argues that we will need to reimagine cities as places of biophilic contact and flourishing, and as places that sustain and support biodiversity. He will review the theory and evidence underpinning biophilia and the elements of a new model of urbanization and city-building that puts nature at the center.
Professor Beatley helped to found a global Biophilic Cities Network which was launched in 2013 and now includes around twenty cities, including Singapore, Wellington, San Francisco, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) and Birmingham (UK), among others.
For more information and to book your place please contact Emma Ferranti ([email protected]).
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