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Sustainable Urbanism module takes students on a trip to Lille, France
The School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing recently had a student trip to Leeds’ twin city of Lille as part of a Sustainable Urbanism module.
First year students on the BA Human Geography, BA Human Geography and Planning, BSc Geography, and BSc Geography and Environmental Science courses recently embarked on a field trip to Leeds’ twin city of Lille in Northern France as part of their Sustainable Urbanism module.
The trip was led by Dr Neil Evans, who was accompanied by Michelle Wishardt, Dr Jenna Sutherland and Dr Geoff Seavers, alongside a record number of 86 students. The trip not only provided a unique and educational experience for the students, but also continues the school’s relationship with Lille City Council and the Lycee Pasteur college, which has run for many years.
While in Lille, students were given guided tours of a number of regeneration areas where the city is delivering innovative sustainable developments by urbanists from Lille City Council, assisted by teachers from the Lycee Pasteur.
Probably the most spectacular of the visits was to EuraTechnologies, a €50 million redevelopment of an old textiles mill
EuroTechnologies is being transformed into a centre for start-up industries, and features an impressive sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) next to the development. While in an exhibition space in the Eurolille development in the centre of Lille, one of the City’s chief planners demonstrated the city’s latest plans to create a green transport corridor in the city.
On their return to Leeds, the students will write a report evaluating Lille’s success in striving to become a more sustainable city.
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