Deer Park Alpha

PORTSMOUTH, UK: Deer Park Alpha’s Carl Leroy-Smith spoke to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in Portsmouth at the Royal Naval Club & Royal Albert Yacht Club on Monday 30 March 2009.

Carl gave the talk on a vision for Portsmouth that connects communities and focuses on making a liveable city. He used John Ruskin’s five ‘life’ virtues: kindness, curiosity, sensitivity, humility and intelligence to explain why Portsmouth, and perhaps society as a whole needs to change its vision for how people live. Carl also explained his ideas for a city where Dry Canals, free from cars, are used to navigate and enjoy the city.

The event orgainiser Tim Lines FRSA kindly wrote us a piece on the evening. Thanks Tim!

“Carl Leroy-Smith delivered an extremely well received presentation entitled “City Growth, Portsmouth: A Dense Liveable City with Dry Canals” to 35 Fellows and guests of the Royal Society of Arts on 30th March 2009. The presentation analysed in harsh and visual detail some of the failings of the current City, and how some of the post-war thinking had contributed to this, though balanced by some very positive developments in infrastructure and social development and greater consultation between authorities and city users. Carl then proposed some quite visionary initiatives ranging from relatively easy step-wise improvement to highly ambitious radical transformation of the quality of the lives of its residents, and the attractiveness of the city to businesses and visitors. He drew widely from international and national experience, both exemplary and bad and illustrated these superbly with images. The presentation prompted a great deal of audience response both during and after the presentation, which I reluctantly drew to a close because we were 45 minutes late for the arranged dinner! Many Fellows reported to me afterwards how much they had enjoyed Carl’s presentation.”

Tim Lines, Event Organiser, FRSA

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