Global Design Forum: Keynote - The Hundred Mile City and Other Stories

Join Peter Barber to explore his ambitious solution to the housing crisis.

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  • Thursday, 20 September 2018 at

  • Past event

+44 (0)20 7942 2000

  • The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

  • Tickets cost £18.00

Past Event
Global Design Forum: Keynote - The Hundred Mile City and Other Stories photo

Described by The Independent as one of the UK’s leading urbanists, Peter Barber has proposed an ambitious solution to the housing crisis: a belt of high-density, low-rise homes surrounding London, joined up by an orbital monorail, that he calls the ‘Hundred Mile City’. He will talk about his eponymous practice, and his big idea to preserve social housing in the centre of the city by densifying suburbia.

Peter Barber: Founder, Peter Barber Architects

Part of London Design Festival at the V&A

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