Webinar: The future of cities

After centuries of urbanisation, the pandemic, and the need to work from home and stay local, has created a genuine question mark over the future of cities.

 

The result of the ‘great homeworking experiment’ has proven that many jobs can be done from home, with many commentators, analysts and companies citing ‘the death of the office’. Whilst this structural shift is yet to play out, we have already seen a number of organisations consider and plan new ways of working which reduce the need for a city centre office. In response, we are seeing increasing evidence of workers making relocation decisions that focus on lifestyle rather than connectivity to their places of work, and question marks around the viability of public transport and infrastructure.

In addition to this, the pandemic has expedited the structural shift to online shopping that had already been occurring. As we consider the future of physical retail space, and its potential repurposing, and the potential for reduced agglomeration in our key cities, it begs the question ‘do our cities still have a future?’ This and other questions will be posed to our panel:

Chair

Darly Perry, UK Head of Research, Avison Young - Daryl has worked for Avison Young for the last 14 years and manages a team responsible for delivering a programme of high quality research across all sectors of the commercial and residential property markets. He worked in the London market for ten years, focussing on the office market and innovation sector but has published reports on a diverse range of topics  including future influences on economic growth, productivity and its impact on future workplace strategies and regeneration across major cities. Avison Young Research produced the UK Cities Recovery Index in early 2020, monitoring a number of high frequency economic indicators to track the recovery of the UK’s largest cities.

Panellists

Andrew Carter, Chief Executive, Centre for Cities - Andrew became Chief Executive of the Centre in April 2017. Before that he was the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy and Research with overall responsibility for the Centre’s research and policy programme.  Andrew has over 20 years of experience working on urban economic policy issues for public and private development agencies, consultants and research institutes.  He has also spent time in the US as part of the Churchill Foundation’s Fellowship Programme reviewing urban economic development policy and practice in American cities including New York, Washington DC, Boston and Chicago.  He is a regular media contributor and chairs and speaks at conferences across the UK and Europe on a wide range of urban and economic issues.


Paul Sargent, Chief Executive, Queensbury Real Estate - Paul’s career in property development spans 3 decades across Continental Europe and the UK. His attention to detail (and love of good food and wine!) are renowned in our industry, but he does not see work as a job – it’s a vocation. For Paul our projects are not just bricks and mortar. He sees them as our responsibility and opportunity to reinvent tired towns and cities, and to restore civic pride. This is the ethos with which he leads Queensberry, cultivating success from a collaborative and motivated team. As he says himself: “Good business is all about choosing the right people to work with.”  30 years’ experience.


Siena Golan, Assistant Vice President, DWS Group - Siena Golan joined the Research team at DWS in 2019 from CBRE, specialising in offices and operational real estate sectors, and transactions in France and Southern Europe. She is a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, qualifying through the Research route in 2018, as well as the ULI and IPF.  Siena has a MSc in Real Estate from the University College of Estate Management, before which she studied Geography at the University of Cambridge.

 
Chris Murray, Director, Core Cities UK - Chris has worked previously in a number of cities in the UK and abroad on a wide range of urban issues. He is a visiting Professor of Practice at Newcastle University, an Honorary Fellow of the Heseltine Institute at Liverpool University, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Prime Ministers’ Regeneration Investment Organisation. Earlier in his career Chris also worked in education, community work and as a psychiatric social worker. Chris holds qualifications in art and design, teaching, business and marketing and European cultural planning. He has published and contributed to a number of books about cities.

When
2/3/2021 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
GMT Standard Time
Where
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