Geography Seminar

Mark Tewdwr-Jones, University of Newcastle - Newcastle City Futures [Civic Design]

12:00pm - 1:00pm / Tuesday 31st January 2017 / Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 Gordon Stephenson Building
Type: Seminar / Category: Department
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Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Director of Newcastle City Futures (NCF). NCF was established in 2014 by Newcastle University as a collaborative platform to bring together Research and Development potential with long term policy trends and business needs in the city. It led a very successful public facing NCF exhibition and events at the Guildhall in 2014 with 24 partners addressing Newcastle past, present and future in visual and engaging forms. As a post-industrial urban area with more than 381,100 citizens, Newcastle and Gateshead form the heart of a contiguous urban conurbation of over 1 million people. It is necessary to plan now for facing numerous future challenges, particularly as the region performs below average on a number of socio-economic factors such as economic activity, educational attainment and health. Our pilot phase work will look to identify specific issues around these (with three priority themes of ageing, sustainability and social renewal) and other challenges. The seminar will explore the work undertaken so far