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AoU Annual Congress 2018
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AOU

Sections
  • Provocations
    • Second cities and the perils of laissez-faire development
    • Cork: A City of Making – in the Making
    • Why Cork? Why now?
    • Cities on the rise
  • Programme
  • Speakers
    • Keynote speaker: Richard Florida
  • Study Tours
    • Cork City Centre
    • City Neighbourhoods and County Towns
  • Workshops
    • Workshop: Food in the City Region
    • Workshop: Designing for Urban Childhoods
    • Workshop: Streets and Green Infrastructure
  • Clonakilty
  • Venues
  • Sponsors
  • Tickets
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  • Latest News

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  • Latest News

    Richard Florida to deliver Keynote address

  • Workshops

    Workshop: Designing for Urban Childhoods

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Speakers><
  • Simon Coveney TD, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Irish Government
    Speakers

    Simon Coveney TD, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Irish Government

  • Richard Florida to deliver Keynote address
    Latest News

    Richard Florida to deliver Keynote address

  • Denise Cahill, Healthy Cities Co-ordinator, Cork City Council
    Speakers

    Denise Cahill, Healthy Cities Co-ordinator, Cork City Council

  • Dr Colin Sage, Chair, Cork Food Policy Council
    Speakers

    Dr Colin Sage, Chair, Cork Food Policy Council

  • Regitze Marianne Hess, Director, International Affairs, IFHP
    Speakers

    Regitze Marianne Hess, Director, International Affairs, IFHP

  • Conor Healy, Chief Executive, Cork Chamber of Commerce
    Speakers

    Conor Healy, Chief Executive, Cork Chamber of Commerce

  • David Flannery AoU, Director, Scott Tallon Walker
    Speakers

    David Flannery AoU, Director, Scott Tallon Walker

  • Susie Stirling, Head of Placemaking & Housing, Scottish Government
    Speakers

    Susie Stirling, Head of Placemaking & Housing, Scottish Government

  • Seán Kearns, Director, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism
    Speakers

    Seán Kearns, Director, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism

  • Immy Kaur, Co-founder, Impact Hub Birmingham
    Speakers

    Immy Kaur, Co-founder, Impact Hub Birmingham

Spotlight><
  • Second cities and the perils of laissez-faire development
    Cities on the rise

    Second cities and the perils of laissez-faire development

    Having grown up in Dublin, I didn’t expect to like Cork when I visited it for the first time as

  • Cork: A City of Making – in the Making
    Cities on the rise

    Cork: A City of Making – in the Making

    Ahead of this year’s Congress, in this piece, the second in our series exploring Cork and its city-region, Mary McCarthy,

  • Why Cork? Why now?
    Cities on the rise

    Why Cork? Why now?

    In the first of our series of articles on the city-region of Cork – the location of the Academy’s 2018

  • Cities on the rise
    Cities on the rise

    Cities on the rise

    The success of our cities has become central to national economies and culture. They are drivers of investment, tourism and

The success of our cities has become central to national economies and culture. They drive investment, tourism and migration – the young, the educated, the creative and the rich are being drawn to live and work in urban areas once again.

As we have seen with Aarhus, Marseille and Rotterdam, the transformation of mid-level non-capitals is providing space for new ideas, enterprise, investment and even building types. But can growth and expansion provide an economy and wellbeing whilst also retaining a distinctive identity?

Where better to explore this than in Cork, Ireland’s great maritime city on the Atlantic rim of Europe. Once the staging post for European emigration to the US, it now sees people and investment flow in the other direction.

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In partnership with

Cork City Council

Principal Sponsor

BAM Ireland

Sponsored by

Arup
Bus Eireann
Clarendon
Cork Chamber of Commerce
Cork Conversations
Irish Rail
O'Callaghan Properties
O'Flynn Group
Perkins + Will
Port of Cork
Reddy Architecture + Urbanism
Scott Tallon Walker
Tower Holdings Group
JCD
River Lee Hotel

Media Partner

Moncle

Supported by

RIAI

Photography

Moncle
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