Previous lectures

The 2023 lecture was given by By Imandeep Kaur, Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE. View the recording here.

People, places and polymaths: does Scotland need more people like Patrick Geddes: By Susan Murray, Director of the David Hume Institute

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Post COVID recovery, looking at the implications for planning, places and cities: By Alice Charles MRTPI, Lead for Cities, Infrastructure & Urban Services in the World Economic Forum

Event flyer 2021

Shaping the new normal with a wellbeing economy: The role for place and planning, By Katherine Trebeck, The Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Event flyer 2020

The Future of our Cities and the Role of Planning by Andrew Carter, Chief Executive, Centre for Cities

Event flyer 2019

The Participatory City by Tessy Britton, Chief Executive, The Participatory City Foundation

Event flyer 2018

Poverty, Places and Equality: A role for place based approaches by Naomi Eisenstadt, Independent Advisor to the Scottish Government on Poverty and Inequality

Event flyer 2017

Copenhagen: A City for People by Tina Saaby, City Architect, Copenhagen

Event flyer 2016

The Freiburg Approach to Sustainable Urbanism by Professor Wulf Daseking, Architect and Former Chief Planning Officer for the City of Freiburg

Event flyer 2015

Planning Matters, Building Resilience Through Risk Management – lessons from Australia by Dyan Currie, National President of the Planning Institute of Australia and Manager of Strategic Planning and Economic Development, Toowoomba Regional Council, Queensland

Event flyer 2014

Transition Towns by Rob Hopkins

Event flyer 2013

Cities for People: Geddes’ Legacy by Jan Gehl, Founding Partner Gehl Architects

Event flyer 2012

Food and Cities by Carolyn Steel

Event flyer 2011

Sustainable Economic Development: towards the emerging Ecological Age by Mr Peter Head OBE FREng FRSA Director, Arup

Event flyer 2010