Presentation at the SHOES conference in Sandwell on March 28th by Eric Kuhne, Owner and Founder of CivicArts International, Architectural consultants, about the plans for the new town Ebbsfleet Valley

1. MARKET
RETAIL
CIVIC
SQUARE
HEALTH
SCHOOL

2. LIBRARY
THEATRE
GALLERY

5. EBBSFLEET21st Century Garden City
VALLEY

17. TEN COMMANDMENTS
• Place Fresh Food within Walking Distance of residents
• Bring Food (products & services) to Residents
• Reverse Residents > Food
• Require all Food Catering to haveVegetarian Menus
• Shift from Treatment to Prevention
• Integrate Health Care into Town Centres

18. • Healthy Cities Agenda
• Place Nutrition above Drugs / Surgery
• Change the Physical layout of new towns
• Move learning, health, amenities, and hospitality to within walking
distance
• Change the walking distance from 500m to 250m
• No home/unit more than two blocks from ‘green’ or ‘blue’ … parks or
waterfronts.
• Planning based on improving life expectancy, not maintaining it.

19. • Tree of Knowledge vs.Tree of Life
• Health & Learning at the Centre of Garden Cities, not perimeter
• 30 Preventable Diseases changed by nutrition, diet, lifestyle, and now:
planning.
• Life Expectancy doubled, but design principles have not.
• Heroic Routine of Everyday life.

20. JUNK

22. Freedom to Learn
Freedom of Health
Freedom of Privacy
Freedom of Networking
Four
FreedomsNew