Seminar: An Urban Design Toolkit for Enhanced Liveability
Presenter: Alan Whiteley - Head of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, WSP
Recorded Wednesday July 31st 2024.
In this seminar, Alan Whiteley, Head of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at WSP presented the newly released Urban Design Toolkit for the Wellington Region.
The Urban Design Toolkit was commissioned by Greater Wellington as a way of supporting our communities to envision sustainable urban communities of the future – places that are more resilient, have a lighter impact on climate and environment, but also better deliver on people’s social, economic and cultural needs.
The Toolkit was developed to support the recently released Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway for the region.
About the speaker
Alan is the Head of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design for WSP NZ. His experience comes through delivery of complex and large-scale projects in New Zealand, Middle East & UK. Alan’s key focus has been on residential and transport infrastructure projects in which systems-wide thinking has been paramount to the success of delivery.
His role at WSP ensures that a nature first, people focused approach to urban development can deliver the outcomes of densification whilst aligning with biophilic uplift. He is passionate about advocating for the value of green space in growing cities and how they positively impact people’s lives and the wider socio-environmental system.