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Updated information on the 5th World Congress 2010 website!

• The Exhibitor Floor Plan is now available.  Book now to secure your preferred stand location!
• The Sponsorship Pack is now available.  Download it here.
• Transportation links have been updated, including a special discount offer from BA!
• Accommodation updates - keep checking back as we extend the list of hotels offering delegates preferential rates.
• Partners programme - details are now on line!
• Study Tours - information on the first groups of study tours is now available.
• Applications for the ATCM Awards are now being accepted.  The awards will be presented at the Congress dinner on Thursday night.  To find out more about the awards or how to apply, please visit the ATCM website.

 

New Plenary Speakers announced!

Anna Minton - author of Ground Control (published by Penguin Books 2009)

Ground Control is subtitled 'Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century' and gives a different perspective on the management of places. The idea for 'Ground Control' emerged from a series of three agenda setting reports. The first focused on gated communities and ghettoes in the US, questioning to what extent these trends are emerging in the UK. The second, 'Northern Soul', looked at polarisation and culture in one British city, Newcastle, and the third, 'What kind of World Are We Building?' investigated the growing privatisation of public space. The book questions whether urban planning has not only changed our cities but the nature of public space, of citizenship and trust. Anna has won five national journalism awards and is now a freelance journalist and author who was on the staff of the Financial Times. Anna will be speaking on the afternoon of Thursday 17^th June.

Jason Prior - masterplanner of the London 2012 Olympic Park

Jason is Executive Director for Design and Planning with AECOM (EDAW). AECOM are involved in many of the world's largest civic infrastructure projects, some of which are detailed in 'The Bigger Picture: designing better places', a recently published compendium of major regeneration schemes the company has been involved in.  AECOM note that 'all our projects have in common the need for practicality, quality, and attractiveness. Underlying everything we do is the ideal of making places where we ourselves - and ultimately, many others - will want to be.'. Jason is the Public Space Commissioner and London Champion for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and chairs their Placemaking Committee. Jason will be speaking in the morning of Friday 18^th June.

 

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