We’re delighted to announce our next Radical Reading Room author event, ‘Unlocking Sustainable Cities’ with Paul Chatterton.

Join us for an evening of discussion with urban innovators and community members who are reimagining our city and unlocking the huge potential of real sustainability. The event will include an author talk, panel discussion and audience Q&A.

‍About the book...

Unlocking Sustainable Cities

This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.

Paul Chatterton explores the power of these city experiments that harness the creative power of the collective, focusing on five themes: compassion, imagination, experimentation, co-production and transformation; and four city systems: mobility, energy, community and nature. Imagining radical alternatives, such as car-free, post-carbon, common and 'bio-cities', this is a toolkit for unlocking real urban change.

https://unlockingsustainablecities.org/about.html

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337012/unlocking-sustainable-cities/

About The Author: Paul Chatterton

Paul Chatterton is an academic, campaigner and writer. He is currently Professor of Urban Futures in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. He is the co-author of Do It Yourself (Pluto, 2007), author of Low Impact Living (Routledge, 2016), Unlocking Sustainable Cities (Pluto, 2018) and How to Save the City (Agenda, 2023)

https://unlockingsustainablecities.org/about.html

https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/staff/1015/professor-paul-cha…

https://www.howtosavethecity.org/

https://www.leedsloveitshareit.co.uk/the-team

https://www.howtosavethecity.org/

OTHER INFORMATION

Home Exhibition

Left Bank has invited artists of all backgrounds and disciplines to explore the theme of HOME. What it means, the memories it holds and the hopes it inspires. How does home feel as the environment around us is rapidly changing?

This exhibition welcomes personal reflections, broader social commentaries, and imaginative interpretations of what home is and can be. We’ll be discussing this theme during the event.

Radical Reading Group

This event is part of our Radical Reading Room which meets on the last Wednesday of every month. Unlocking Sustainable Cities will be our April book selection. Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase signed copies of the book or borrow from the library at the event.