New London Architecture

NLA to research the post-pandemic city with New London Agenda

Monday 29 November 2021

At the New London Awards ceremony last Friday Peter Murray OBE, Curator-in-Chief of NLA, announced the launch of the New London Agenda: a major research project investigating the impact of COVID19, Brexit and the levelling up agenda on London and how the built environment sector should respond to these combined challenges.
 
The project will study how the pandemic has changed the way we work, live, travel and enjoy the city; it will set out goals that the sector can deliver in housing, infrastructure, regeneration, placemaking, biodiversity, wellbeing and zero carbon. Our team will engage with City Hall, Town Halls and Whitehall to set out the civic imperatives for future London. The Agenda will provide a roadmap for achieving these aims.
 
The project aims to complete in late 2023, in time for the start of the next Mayoral election campaign. As Mayoral candidates seek to develop policies that will inform the next iteration of the London Plan, the Agenda will outline the priorities and proposals from our expert panels across all sectors of the built environment.
 
The NLA membership will act as ambassadors for the Agenda to help highlight the role that the built environment sectors must play in creating a sustainable, fairer and successful city based on the belief that a better built environment is a catalyst to the realisation of shared potential and common endeavours.
 
Peter Murray said: 
The New London Agenda will set out a road map to achieve the social, economic, and environmental aspirations of all Londoners. The built environment sector shapes the space in which our city leads its life. It influences the city’s economy, its communities, and its identity. The physics of the city: its land, its buildings, its roads, routes, systems, spaces, fibres and networks bind it together into a functioning organism which is created and managed by the architects, engineers, contractors, developers and public authorities that make up the NLA network.

More information coming soon

How to get involved

We will be working closely with our Principal Partners and Champion members on the New London Agenda research project. To find out more about how you could get involved, please get in touch with the Membership Team via membership@nla.london

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