The ninth webinar of the 'Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning Cities from Vulnerable Spaces to Healthy Places for People' took place on Wednesday, 01 February 2023. This webinar is the ninth in the 18-webinar series. The webinar was chaired by the RECLAIM Director and Principal Investigator, Professor Prashant Kumar, from the University of Surrey. This webinar included two speakers: Angus Cunningham and Professor Maarten Van Reeuwijk.
Angus Cunningham discussed "Breathing Life into Cities, via Living Walls, Living Pillars and Micro-forest". Professor Maarten Van Reeuwijk presented a talk on the topic “Urban Trees: how do they affect air quality”.
After the talk a Q&A session was chaired by Professor Prashant Kumar from the University of Surrey, who is a co-PI of RECLAIM Network Plus.
Short bio of speakers:
• Angus Cunningham is the CEO and founder of Scotscape. Scotscape are an innovation led Company who have developed a number of urban greening initiatives that combine technology and Nature to encourage biodiversity into our cities to make them healthier and happier places to live work and play.
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• Maarten van Reeuwijk is a Professor in Urban Fluid Mechanics in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Maarten's research interests comprise the urban air quality, turbulent dispersion, urban heat islands and microclimate and blue-green solutions. He is co-chair of the Urban Fluid Mechanics Special interest group which organizes biannual workshops to bring together companies, governmental organisations and academics with an interest in the urban environment.

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