This workshop presented by London National Park City and the London Hub of Heritopolis will explore progress in developing the potential of London’s National Park City.
London was designated as a ‘National Park City’ in 2019, with the ambition to ‘turn London into a more liveable, workable and sustainable city’, emphasising the importance of the relationship between environmental stewardship and socio-economic inclusion in the metropolitan area. As a concept explicitly associated with non-urban, natural environments, imported into urban and metropolitan policy discourse, it recognises the interdependency between the urban and the natural in the context of the climate crisis. This workshop presented by London National Park City and the London Hub of Heritopolis will explore progress in developing the potential of London’s National Park City designation in two key areas: as a policy tool to mobilise the ‘power of nature’ in the context of climate change and localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals; and in articulating integrated conceptualisations and knowledge of urban-natural culture and heritage in the metropolis, both with comparative reference to relevant metropolitan comparators.