Lent term seminars 2007

The 2007 Lent term seminar series focuses on the main challenges and main policy changes for London. Speakers are both Academics and practitioners. Each meeting is chaired by one of the Members of LSE London. A PDF version of the full programme can be downloaded on this page and speaker's presentations and related documents will be posted regularly on the website.

The seminar takes place every Monday afternoon from 4.30pm to 6pm in St Clement's Building Room S 75, located at the LSE, map and directions| downloadable here (PDF).

Issues discussed are:

• The Mayor's New Plan, John Lett, GLA, 14 January
• The Olympic Games Legacy, Tracy Kornblatt, IPPR, 22 January
• Estates in London, Rebecca Tunstall, LSE, 29 January
• 'The best Laid Plans or another fine Mess?', Alan Evans, University of Reading, 5 February
• Prospects for the Thames Gateway, Michael Ward, Kent Thameside Delivery Board, 19 February
• Office Space Supply Restrictions, Paul Cheshire, LSE, 26 February
• The Barker, Eddington and Sub-National Reviews, Henry Overman, LSE, 5 March
• The impact of international migration on the London economy, Ian Gordon and Christine Whitehead, LSE, 12 March
  
  
• Programme - Lent Term Seminars 2007 (PDF)
• Alan Benson, GLA, Housing in London - the Mayor's new role (PPT)
• John Lett, GLA, The London Plan (PPT)
• Tracy Kornblatt, IPPR,  Seminar 2: London's Olympic Legacy (PPT)
• Rebecca Tunstall, LSE, Twenty-five years on - eleven estates in London (PPT)
• Alan Evans, University of Reading, The Best Laid Plans or Another Fine Mess? (PPT)
• Michael Ward, KTDB,  Prospects for the Thames Gateway (PPT)
• Paul Cheshire, LSE, Office Space Supply Restrictions (PDF) drawn from the working paper Office Space Supply and Restrictions (PDF)
• Henry Overman, LSE, The Barker, Eddington and Sub-National Reviews (PPT)
•  Ian Gordon and Christine Whitehead, LSE, Some Impacts of Recent Immigration on the London Economy (PPT)