School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

PRESENTATIONS

Conferences

City Living

• Yorkshire RICS conference, Wakefield, February 2006
• European Urban Research Association, Glasgow, September 2007
• Sheffield Hallam University, December 2007
• Leeds City Centre Management Board, January 2008
• Yorkshire Property Federation, 24 February 2008 (with Chief Planning Officer and Richard Dean of KW Linfoot plc).
• Yorkshire Landlords' Day, 14 May 2008

Climate Change, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Futures

• Climate change seminar, Leeds 5 June 2006
• 'Urban design and Climate Change' - beam workshop for Barnsley Council March 2008
• 'Thinking about the Core Strategy of the Local Development Framework' - for Leeds City Council, 11 Sept 2006
• 'Liveable cities', at Yorkshire's Green and Healthy Land? Connecting urban and rural greenspace, 5 April 2008
• 'Leeds: the wider picture and the longer term', Yorkshire Property Network, 10 July 2008

Regeneration

• 'Inner city Leeds: changing geographies', Leeds Central Labour Party Group, Leeds Civic Hall, 11 November 2004
• 'Urban development in Leeds' - CEU conference Nov 2006
• 'Regeneration in Leeds', Harrogate Grammar School, December 2006
• 'Regeneration in Leeds', York Geographical Association, January 2007
• 'Regeneration in Leeds', Teachers' workshop, June 2007
• Morley Town Centre Summit, January 2007
• Rothwell Town Centre Summit, 2007v 'Regeneration in Leeds', Lincoln GA, Sept 2007
• 'An evaluation of the urban renaissance in Leeds', ESRC/CABE seminar Manchester January 2008
• University of Bradford regeneration and wellbeing seminar, April 2008
• 'Compact cities: reconnecting the rim of disconnections', RGS Annual Conference, August 2008

21st Century Leeds: Geographies of a Regional City

• Bootham School Parents' Day, 28 May 2005
• Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, March 2006
• Café Scientifique, Headingley, 2007

History of Leeds Office Market

• 'Locating the early service sector of Leeds: the origins of an office district' (with Professor Maurice Beresford), Thoresby Society lecture, Leeds, 7 October 2003 and at Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 8 October 2003

Other Presentations

• 'Compact cities: desirable, feasible, effective?' 4x4 debate on urban design, planning and architecture, Leeds Met, 24 February 2005
• 'Culture in city centres' - Leeds Met December 2005
• 'Housing in LS6' - North West Area housing seminar, July 2007
• 'From burgage plot to skyscraper' - lecture during series organised by School of History, University of Leeds, celebrating 800 years since Leeds was granted a borough charter, October 2007
• Numerous tours of Leeds city centre: for Concourse, Common Purpose, Re'new, Geographical Associations, Japanese planners from Osaka, Chinese students from Hangzhou, University of Leeds students.
• Led workshop at Yorkshire Cities and Culture, 30 January 2008
• Led workshop at Leeds City Centre Visioning conference 31 January 2008 v Family housing seminar, re'new, Leeds, June 2008