PFBE Strategy. Part 2/16: Sustainability and Tradition
1. Practicing Sustainable Urbanism
• Exemplars in each English region,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
underway by 2010.
• Exemplars in every continent underway
by 2011.
• A portfolio of exemplars addressing a
range of scales and settings from city
centre and brownfield to urban extension
and new community and from hamlet to
metropolitan plan.
• Exemplars addressing key challenges
from climate mitigation and adaptation to
eco-vernacular housing, safety and
Crewe Landscape Plan, Prince’s Foundation for Duchy of Lancaster
security and slum remediation.
2. R&D and Education
• Ongoing research on benefits and barriers to
sustainable and traditional urbanism: Valuing
Sustainable Urbanism, documenting emission
and travel reduction benefits, evaluating
delivery and financial models.
• Architectural and construction testing with the
Building Research Establishment.
• MSc in Urban Sustainability and Design with
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
in 2009/10.
• Prince of Wales Graduate Fellows in
Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism.
• Prince of Wales Traditional Building Craft
Apprentices.
• Executive Education and Short Courses,
including Poundbury Series.