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Entering the Ecological Age: Resource Efficient Cities - audio is a podcast hosted by UCL. It has 1 episodes, with the latest published September 2010.

In the last 18 months Peter Head has visited 23 countries discussing a transition from the industrial model of city development to an ecological one based on efficient use of renewable resources, including energy. He will present both retrofit and new development scenarios which are emerging, and his analysis, based on evidence of real examples of best practice, makes an economic case for rethinking forms of cities to enable human development to flourish.Peter Head is a Senior Director at Arup, one of the world's most successful engineering and planning consultancy companies, with over 10,000 staff in 37 countries. Peter is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognized world leader in major bridges (he received an OBE for successfully delivering the Second Severn Crossing as Government Agent), advanced composite technology and now in sustainable development in cities.He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineer

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