New speakers added to RUDI’s national conference – Re-making Places

Added: (Tue Nov 18 2008)

Pressbox (Press Release) - New speakers added to RUDI’s national conference – Re-making Places

Urban consultant, media producer and project director of the Castleford Project, David Barrie, and urban transportation and movement specialist John Dales have confirmed to speak at the forthcoming Re-making Places conference which takes place in London on 3rd December.


David Barrie
David is an urban consultant, project, design and media producer. He creates and manages urban renewal projects and makes TV programmes for major broadcasters. He was Project Director for the Castleford Project which later featured in a Channel 4 programme ‘The Big Town Plan.

John Dales, Director, Urban Initiatives
John has considerable experience in the conception, design, execution and management of a wide range of urban transportation and traffic projects. He specialises in handling the movement and access aspects of inter-disciplinary urban design, master-planning, and regeneration studies.



The second annual Re-making Places conference, organized by The Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI) takes place on 3rd December and aims to encourage multi-disciplinary team working and examine new ways of looking at re-shaping urban areas.

Particularly in a financially restrictive time, a range of solutions and techniques for achieving makeovers, re-modelling and re-connection of ineffective areas need to be considered.

The event will consider methods for unlocking hidden potential of sites and assets and ways of creating sustainable developments that make vibrant places for people to live, work and spend their leisure time.


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Press passes are available by contacting Tom Evans tom@rudi.net

Further information about the Re-making Places Conference and a full list of speakers is available at http://www.rudi.net/pages/20177

RUDI is an independent unbiased service and offers the largest web resource dedicated to urban design and placemaking.

RUDI commissions, researches and creates materials for professionals in the public and private sector. As part of a value-added membership service, we also identify and provide immediate access to significant studies, guidance, best practice and other documents contributed by professional and government bodies, practitioners, academics and community organisations.
RUDI was created in 1996 as a joint project under the UK's eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme, set up following a review of university libraries by the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. Supported by a panel of independent editorial advisors, RUDI offers a unique combination of publishing expertise, practising professionals and academics and features more than 5,000 documents, 20,000 pages and more than 9,000 images.


Further information about The Castleford Project is available at http://www.peopleandparticipation.net/display/CaseStudies/The+Castleford+Project

Further details about David Barrie can be found here http://davidbarrie.typepad.com/about.html

Information about John Dales and Urban Initiatives is available at http://www.urbaninitiatives.co.uk/index.php?id=120

For further details or images please contact Tom Evans on 020 7091 7898 or email tom@rudi.net