Urbal Fix

Post date: 23-Feb-2011 19:54:59

REAP brings you a film and discussion with film maker Tom Bliss on transforming Leeds and its environment.

Wednesday 23 March 2011 at 19.30

Saint Andrew’s Church, Shaftesbury Avenue, Leeds, LS8 1DS.

The “Urbal Fix” puts cities in the driving seat of an adaptive strategy against imminent resource depletion, economic chaos and climate crisis.

“Rurban” describes the bleeding of unsustainable urban consumerism into formerly healthy rural resources. Its polar opposite “Urbal” describes the only logical cure: the injection of countryside, by means of green productivity, deep into the heart of our cities. Urbalism distils a select range of theories focusing on how to bring environmental sustainability into our major cities.

The film is presented by landscape architect and film maker Tom Bliss with major contributors including Hilary Benn MP, Councillor Richard Brett (former Leader of Leeds City Council), and Jonathan Porritt CBE.

Tom Bliss will set the scene and answer questions after the film.