Building a better world

BRE Annual Conference 2008
Future Communities – disaster or delight?

The 2008 BRE Annual Conference took place at The Gibson Hall, City of London on 20 May.

Our theme for the day was Future Communities – disaster or delight.  Changes in how we work, live and spend our leisure time mean that there are massive opportunities in the future for developing different, exciting, more attractive and increasingly sustainable communities.

Speakers:

  • The event was chaired by Professor Laurie Taylor, Fellow of the University of London and author of many books on motivation, change and communication. Also a regular contributor to many BBC Radio 4 programmes.
  • Erik Freudenthall, Hammarby Sjöstad, Sweden .
  • Steve Carr, English Partnerships.
  • David Nelson, Foster + Partners
  • Andrés Duany, Duany Plater-Zyberk, USA
  • Martin Townsend, BRE Global

Download the presentations from the event as PDF files.
We are currently awaiting clearance to publish some of the speaker's slides.

Download a copy of the Conference booklet handed out on the day
(2.6MB PDF file)