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Ian Bentley

Guest Speaker on Regional Growth and Urban Design - Ian Bentley

24 August 2005

Ian Bentley

Ian is Project director of the University's Urban Regeneration Consultancy. He has worked as an architect in private practice, as a director then managing director, of a property company working mainly in the Netherlands, and has been associated with the Joint Centre since its foundation.

Recent major practice work includes developing urban design strategies for the Angell Town Estate, Brixton (Times/RIBA Community Award for Partnership 1991, Civic Trust Award 1994) part of St. Ann's, Nottingham (1994) and Stoke City Council's lead project for the DoE's Urban Design Campaign (1996).

This work has included running major studies of user perceptions using questionnaires and structured interviews, as well as extensive experience of the problems and opportunities of running face-to-face workshops and negotiations with people from a wide range of professional and social backgrounds. He has also run many in-house training courses on urban quality issues for local authorities, and for the RTPI.

Details of Visit
Ian visited New Zealand as a guest speaker at the Urbanism Downunder Conference in Wellington. He presented to planning staff of local authorities and private sector consultancies.

Information Available
Ian's PowerPoint presentation is available from the Auckland Regional Council.