The OPT Annual Day School will be on Saturday 25 April!

In partnership with the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education, this year’s OPT Annual Day School is entitled “An Ever Expanding City – the History and Growth of Suburbia”.  See the leaflet here or look below for more details.

This will be a fascinating day with five exciting speakers:

• Oxford Expanded - the growth around the urban fringe

Dr Malcolm Graham

Former Head of Oxfordshire Studies, local Historian and Author

• From Axtell to Zacharias: The men who built Oxford

Liz Woolley

Local Historian

• Blackbird Leys – Oxford’s social housing in the 1960s

Gill Butter

Conservation and Urban Design Officer, Oxford City Council

• Green Suburbs - Designing high quality low energy / zero-carbon homes at a suburban scale

Paul Phasey, RIBA

Associate Director and PassivHaus Designer ArchitecturePLB

• Suburbs and landscapes in the shadow of climate change: legacies and futures

Karl Kropf

Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University

You can book via the Department for Continuing Education by clicking here.

Feature image source: Oxfordshire History Centre