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Testimonials from conference attendees

I speak regularly at public and private events throughout the world. My recent and forthcoming speaking appointments are listed below.
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24th April 2013
Cities for people, an introduction to Space Syntax theory, technology & projects

South China University, Guangzhou, UK
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23rd April 2013
Urban Design & Human Behaviour, a scientific approach

Science & Technology Day, Cities and Urban Design, DCLG, London, UK
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22rd April 2013
High Speed 2 – the design of the stations and their urban settings

Committee Room 21, House of Commons, London, UK

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18th April 2013
Birmingham High Speed 2 – urban benefit or urban blight

Independent Transport Commission event at Gareth Hoskins Architects, Birmingham, UK
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15th April 2013
The Parameters of Place – Science-based. Human focused.

Smartgeometry 13, London, UK
My presentation
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21st March 2013
The human architecture of the city – an introduction to Space Syntax

School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
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15th March 2013
People first. Buildings second.

Beijing University, Beijing, China
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14th March 2013
People first. Buildings second.

School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin China
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4-5th December
Moscow Urban Forum

The Master Plan — the New Spatial Policy
The spatial layout of the city is a powerful economic and cultural asset. It creates a grid of connections that influences patterns of movement, land use, land value, public safety and community contact. Well-planned cities are “transaction machines”, bringing people together to form social and economic relations. Disconnected cities pose profound risks to civic well-being, distancing people from each other and from opportunities to transact.

In his talk, Tim Stonor will present a scientific approach to the measurement of urban network efficiency, showing how street patterns can be analysed and optimised. Using examples from the UK, China and the USA, he will describe the urban planning challenges facing world cities and will argue that these can be addressed through the considered design of street networks.

Ton Schaap, Senior Urban Planner of Amsterdam, City Planning Department, The Netherlands

Tim Stonor, Architect and Urban Planner, Managing Director, Space Syntax Limited, Visiting Professor at University College London, UK

Thomas Madreiter, Project Manager, Municipal Department 18 – Urban Development and Planning, Head of the “smart city Vienna” project, Austria

Sergey Zuev, Dean of the institute of State Policy and Applied Humanitarian Research in the Russian Presidential Academic of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia

Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow, Russia

Andrei Golovin, Head of “the Bureau of city Projects”, Perm, Russia

Yury Grigoryan, Architect, Head of the “Project Meganom” bureau, Russia

11:30-13:00 Hall D
The general plan of a city consists of the right to regulate construction activity within a particular territory. It is not a plan for urban planning activities, but a system of coordinates for these activities. we know the advantages of these systems. But its downsides lie in the fact that architects cannot respond to the municipal agenda and cannot advance their own agendas. The city has its own economic, social and ideological agendas. How are these agendas transformed into cohesive architecture and urban planning? What instrument should be used for this transformation? The General Plan? The Master Plan? Conceptual tenders? How are such problems resolved in other megacities around the world?
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23rd-25th November 2012
Parametric Thinking & Making on Architecture and Urbanism (PaTMAU) International Conference, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

23rd November
People first, buildings second
My presentation

24th November
The parameters of place
My presentation

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13-15th November 2012
Challenges for the design, financing, governance & use of Smart Cities

Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona
My presentation
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18-20th September 2012
Sharing the power of place

AGIgeocommunity’12 Conference, Nottingham, UK
My presentation
Storify summary

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30th June 2012
School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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22nd June 2012
Human City

Open House Worldwide Conference, London, UK
My presentation
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26th April 2012
RUDI Quality Streetscapes Conference
My slides
My presentation
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18th April 2012
Future Cities – cities of transaction

Technology Strategy Board Future Cities Workshop, RIBA London
My presentation
My notes
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11th April 2012
1st International Sign Design Society Seminar, London, UK
My presentation
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3rd April 2012
Science, space & sharing

Planning Breakout – grabbing the agenda before the dust settles
Ash Sakula Architects, London, UK

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8th March 2012
Measure, map, model, make – the Use of Geographic Information in the Planning and Design of Urban Environments

Association for Geographic Information Annual Conference, London, UK
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14th December 2011
Fragmented landscapes – the rise of Landscape Urbanism & the threat it poses to the continuously connected city

Academy of Urbanism, London, UK
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13th December 2011
London after the riots – were we too quick to write off poverty?

London Policy Conference, South Bank Centre, London, UK

This Conference will consider the major policy challenges facing the city and ask how we shape its future. Set to become an annual event – a ‘Davos for London’ – it will ask how London maintains its place in the world and how should policies now embrace ideas for the future to meet the challenges the city faces head on. Mayor of London Boris Johnson and leading candidate Ken Livingstone will both give keynote addresses to the Conference, alongside many other leading UK and international business figures, thinkers and commentators.

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8th December 2011
The city as a transaction machine
The effects of space on social, economic & environmental performance

KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden
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7th December 2011
From the city to the bedside
Multi-modal, multi-scale & multi-active spatial environments

White Tengbom Team AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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25th November 2011
Approaching large scale urban design schemes
A framework for handling complexity

Inside Design Review, New London Architecture, London, UK
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19th October 2011
What does the future city look like?
Inhuman metropolis or rural idyll? All is not what it seems

IBM Smart City Conference, Helsinki, Finland
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17th October 2011
Creating effective places
Integrating transport & urban design

Rail-Volution 2011, Washington DC, USA
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11th October 2011
Understanding movement

Urban Design London, London, UK
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15th September 2011
Digital urbanism – the role of research in urban planning & policymaking

EPSRC, Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, Swindon, UK
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17th June 2011
Upgrading urban slums

UNICEF, New York NY, USA

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OLIN Landscape Architects, Philadelphia PA, USA

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15th June 2011
National Capital Planning Commission, Washingon DC, USA

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25th May 2011
The role of technology in placemaking

Boston LivableStreets Alliance, Cambridge MA, USA

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11th May 2011
Measuring & modelling cities

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Urban Systems Symposium

NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate, New York NY, USA

“#Urbansys – This has been one roller-coaster day of presentations. @Tim_Stonor was the highlight for me so far.” Smart Streets Editor (@SmartstreetsEd)

“Beautiful and simple presentation which has a creative impact – I hope it is reaching and being seen by those who can make a difference.” Donovan Gillman
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14th April 2011
Designing mobility for democracy

Designing Mobility for Democracy Symposium

NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, New York NY, USA
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23rd March 2011
Space Syntax & the future of urban planning software