Join the Better Places Network... and make better places!

Transport is experiencing a period of disruption. New thinking, new business models, new technologies and new channels for sharing and engagement are combining to offer real potential for positive change. Join us on 24 November to meet expert international speakers and hear them explain how towns and cities can make the most of these new opportunites. Become part of the Better Places Network to remain involved with news, developments and best practice.

Why?

Lots of elements go into making good places: viable transport options, safe streets, accessible amenities, decent homes and the close proximity of public squares, parks and gardens, for example. We all know of good and bad examples of specific change in towns and cities, but we need to better understand what made these outcomes happen. The real challenge of making better places is not knowing what we'd like. It is managing to achieve it.

How?

The Better Places Symposium on 24 November is about how we do exactly that. It’s about how professionals, policy makers and communities can work together to create places that people actually like, places that support employment, health, education and leisure, and about how cities and neighbourhoods have a say in the way places are organised and managed.

We need to widen the 'better places' professional discussion to include the ever-increasing circle of professionals working to deliver better places. People everywhere are increasingly concerned over poor air quality, low levels of physical activity, congestion, crowded public transport, degraded natural and built environments, cookie-cutter development and declining town centres. There are strong appetites for change, and new possibilities for achieving it. Join us on 24 November to become part of the movement towards making better places.

Objectives 

• Bringing together people who share a common interest in developing better places
• Providing a network through which members can benefit from the experience of others 
• Raising awareness and promote the benefits of active places, walkable and bicycle friendly communities 
• Create an international forum to identify and exchange examples of best practice and to disseminate and develop consistent approaches and best practice nationally
• Be an online forum for discussion groups and debate on key issues  

Membership:

Membership is offered free of charge to all that attend Better Places Network-supported events. Simply register at the event at the designated Better Places Network desk.

For further information, please email juliana.orourke@landor.co.uk