Public Events
LSE Cities hosts a wide range of public events and research seminars. Explore our upcoming events and past event recordings.
Upcoming Event
Re-thinking green transitions with young Londoners
Wednesday 23 September 2026, 10.00am – 2.00pmHosted by LSE Cities, Partnership for Young London, Islington Council and the Centre for Youth Voice
Past Events
If you would like to listen to podcasts or watch videos of past events please explore the list of events, organised chronologically by year, below.
The city as a democratic frontier in an 'authoritarian age'
Thursday 25 June 2026, 6pm - 7.30pm
Speakers: Femke Halsema, Mayor of Amsterdam; Sheila R. Foster, Professor of Climate at Columbia University and Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School; Avner de Shalit, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Chair: Ben Rogers, Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE Cities.
Hosted by LSE Cities, Kings College London, and Queen Mary University.
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Nicky Gavron Memorial Lecture Series: A city for all: leading climate transformation in an era of disinformation
Wednesday 24 June 2026, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Speakers: Anne Hidalgo, former Mayor of Paris, Kate Gallego, Mayor of Phoenix, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, C40 Co-Chair and Mayor of Freetown, David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto and Managing Director, C40 Cities, Mark Watts, Executive Director, C40 Cities.
Chair: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities
Hosted by LSE Cities and C40 Cities.
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The Inclusive City: transport equity in New York and London
Monday 30 March 2026, 6.00 - 7.30pm
Speakers: Kate Ascher, Paul Milstein Professor of Professional Practice of Urban Development, GSAPP; Danny Pearlstein, Policy & Communications Director at Riders Alliance; Val Shawcross CBE, former Deputy Mayor for Transport, Greater London Authority; Tony Travers CBE, Professor in Practice, LSE Department of Government, and Associate Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy.
Chair: Ben Rogers, Distinguished Policy Fellow in Government Innovation, LSE Cities
Hosted by LSE Cities, LSE School of Public Policy and Colombia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Presentation (GSAPP)
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Beyond the car divide: fair transport policy for an autonomous mobility future
Tuesday 24 February 2026, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Speakers: Sarah Barnes, Principal, AFTR Consulting; Seb Dance, Deputy Mayor, Transport and Deputy Chair, Transport for London; Glenn Lyons, Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility, University of West England, Bristol; Rebecca Posner, Director of Inclusive Research, Research Institute for Disabled Consumers
Chair: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities
Hosted by LSE Cities
Children on The Move, New Ways of Being
Thursday 16 October 2025, 6.30pm
Speakers: Gabriella Brent, CEO, Amna Refugee Healing Network; Lucy Earle, Director, Human Settlements International Institute of environmental displacement; Samira Lahfa, Team Manager, Hackney Council Migrant Children and Families Team.
Moderator: Professor Catalina Ortiz, Professor of Critical Urban Pedagogy and UCL Urban Lab Director
Chair: Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities
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Report Launch: what do young Londoners want from a green transition?
Tuesday 22 July 2025, 6.00 - 8.00pm
A welcome and introduction from Imogen Hamilton-Jones (LSE Cities) and Monika Milewska (Islington Council) followed by lightning talks from the young researchers who participated in the research project.
Hosted by LSE Cities and Islington Council
Designing Public Life Through Data
Thursday 10 July 2025, 6.30pm
Speakers: Simen Sorthe, Designer, Gehl; Sophia Schuff, Portfolio Director, Urban Anthropologist, Gehl; Victoria Chavez Barriga, Senior Urban95 Expert
Chair: Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities
Green, just, and healthy: what do young Londoners want for the future of their neighbourhoods?
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 1.00 - 2.00pm BST
Speakers: Mete Coban, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy; Rowena Champion, Executive Member for the Environment at Islington Council; Maanya Jones, Researcher, LSE Cities
Chair: Imogen Hamilton-Jones, Policy Officer at LSE Cities
Hosted by LSE Festival: Visions for the Future
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Santiago 2050: Strategies to transform Santiago on a metropolitan scale
Friday 4 April 2025, 8.00am to 1.00pm CLST
LSE Cities is presenting its year-long study on the regional development strategy being implemented by the Metropolitan Regional Government of Santiago in Chile. The public event in Santiago on 4 April will feature LSE Cities director Ricky Burdett with international experts from Barcelona, London, Milan and Medellin, alongside Governor Claudio Orrego and leading regional and national policymakers.
Public Innovation in Europe's City Governments
Thursday 3 April 2025, 10.00am CET
An interactive webinar presenting the new report by LSE Cities, developed in collaboration with Eurocities and Bloomberg Philanthropies, exploring how city governments across Europe innovate to overcome barriers, strengthen internal capacities, and respond creatively to today’s complex challenges.
Cities at War: building resilience of Ukrainian cities
Thursday 28 November 2024, 6.30pm
Speakers: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities; Oleksandr Senkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv; Volodymyr Shmatko, Mayor of Chortkiv
Moderator: Iryna Ozymok, Founder of the International Mayors Summit.
Hosted by LSE Cities and LSE Ideas
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Public Innovation: Building Capacity in Europe's City Governments
Tuesday 12 November 2024, 2.00pm to 3.30pm CET
Speakers: Gaia Romani, Deputy Mayor of Milan, Judit Rozsa, Director General, DG Reform, European Commission, James Anderson, Head of Government Innovation Programs, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Nathalie Guri, Projects and Knowledge Sharing Director, Eurocities.
Chair: Ben Rogers, Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government and Innovation, LSE Cities.
In-person event at European Parliament. Hosted by MEP Pierfrancesco Maran, Eurocities and LSE Cities.
A safer future for cycling in London
Thursday 31 October 2024, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Speakers: Rachel Aldred, Professor in Transport, University of Westminster, Director of Active Travel Academy; Marco te Brömmelstroet, Professor of Urban Mobility Futures, University of Amsterdam and Academic Director at Lab of Thought; Will Norman, London's Walking & Cycling Commissioner; Julie Plichon, Head of Design and Engineering, Sustrans London.
Chair: Ben Rogers, Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government and Innovation, LSE Cities.
Hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and LSE Cities
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Good housing for young children and caregivers
Thursday 24 October 2024, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Speakers: Dinah Bornat, Director of ZCD Architects; Jo McCafferty, Director of Levitt Bernstein; Jacob Willson, Head of Design, Guinness Partnership
Chair: David Madden, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of the MSc City Design and Social Science Programme
Hosted by LSE Cities
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Caregiver wellbeing and urban policy
Thursday 18 July 2024, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Speakers: Lucy Jones, Journalist and Author; Dr Kate Laffan, Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science in the Psychological and Behavioural Science Department, LSE
Chair: Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities
Hosted by LSE Cities
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What is driving the green backlash in European urban politics?
Saturday 15 June 2024, 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Speakers: Liam Beiser-McGrath, Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy, LSE Department of Social Policy; Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris (2014 – 2020); Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor of London (2016-2024); Ciarán Cuffe Member of the European Parliament (2019-2024); Catarina Heeckt, Programme Lead European Cities Programme, LSE Cities.
Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics
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Digital Cities for Humans or for Profit?
Monday 18 March, 6.30pm to 8pm
Speakers: Sara Alsherif, human/ rights defender and researcher in digital rights; Ayona Datta, Professor of Human Geography, UCL; Myria Georgiou, Professor of Media and Communications, LSE.
Chair: Ben Rogers, Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government Innovation and Director of the European Cities Programme, LSE Cities
Hosted by the Department of Media and Communications and LSE Cities
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Shaping major cities - The challenges of being a Mayor
Thursday 29 February, 6.30pm to 8pm
Speaker: Marvin Rees OBE, Mayor of Bristol
Chair: Alexander Evans, Professor and inaugural Programme Director of the MPA in Data Science for Public Policy, LSE
Hosted by LSE Cities and the LSE School of Public Policy
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Moments of polycrisis: a mayor's perspective
Tuesday 27 February, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Speaker: Kostas Bakoyannis, Mayor of Athens (2019-2023)
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities, LSE
Hosted by LSE Cities in association with the Hellenic Observatory
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City of Hope - Lessons from Cape Town for the future of South Africa and African cities
Tuesday 23 January, 6.30pm to 8pm
Speaker: Geordin Hill-Lewis, Mayor of Cape Town
Discussant: Desné Masie, Visiting Senior Fellow, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, LSE
Chair: Suzanne Hall, Professor of Sociology and Head of Department, LSE
Hosted by LSE Cities and the LSE School of Public Policy
From childhood needs to urban reality: strategies to engage kids in urban design
Thursday 12 October 2023 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Speakers: Francisca Benitez, Program Manager, Streets for Kids; Silvia Amoros, Architect and Urban Planner; Joana Dabaj, co-founder, CatalyticAction.
Chair: Savvas Verdis, Co-Director, Executive Masters’ in Cities, LSE Cities
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Mobilities of Care: transport, cities and gender
Thursday 13 July 2023, 6.30-8.00pm
Speakers: Alex Baum, Programs and Systems Manager, BYCS; Tiffany Lam, Strategy Lead - EDI, Sustrans; Camila Herrero, Policy and Cycling Inclusion Manager, BYCS
Chair: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities
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Old Cities New Ambitions: the future of urban Europe
Wednesday 05 July 2023, 6.30-8.00pm
Speakers: James Anderson, Head of the Government Innovation program, Bloomberg Philanthropies; Anna Lisa Boni, Deputy Mayor of Bologna; Mohamed Ridouani, Mayor of Leuven; Ben Rogers, Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government Innovationm LSE Cities
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities
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The Slow Lane: why quick fixes fails and how to achieve real change
Tuesday 20 June 2023, 6.30-8.00pm
Speakers: Sascha Haselmayer, Architect, Author and Social Entrepreneur; Ellie Cosgrave, Director, Publica and Co-Director, UCL Urban Lab; Tessy Britton, Founder of Participatory City.
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science
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Growing Apart: cities, nations and the future of Europe
Tuesday 23 May 2023, 6.30-8.00pm
Speakers: Aziza Akhmouch, Head of cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Divison, OECD; Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography, LSE; Ben Rogers, Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government Innovationm LSE Cities
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, LSE
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Innovation in City Hall: Public Lecture
Wednesday 26 April 2023, 6.30-8.00pm
Speaker: Jorrit de Jong, Director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Abu Dhabi (Dis)connected: an evening of art and research
Friday 10 March 2023, 5:00-8:00pm
Speakers: Alexandra Gomes, Research Fellow at LSE Cities; Apostolos Kyriazis, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Abu Dhabi University; Clémence Montagne, Director of Care Design Lab based at the L'École de Design; Peter Schwinger, transport economist, planning expert and a consultant for the 'Roads as Tools for (Dis)connecting Cities and Neighbourhoods' project.
Chair: Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities
Hosted by the Middle East Centre
Politics and the Urban Frontier
Tuesday 29 November 2022, 6:00-7:30pm
Speakers: Tom Goodfellow, Professor of Urban Studies and International Development, University of Sheffield; Claire Mercer, Professor of Urban Geography, LSE; James Putzel, Professor of Development Studies, LSE
Chair: Jo Beall, Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow, LSE Cities
Hosted by LSE Cities and the Department of International Development
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The Social Sustainable City
Thursday 13 October 2022, 6:30-8:00pm
Speakers: Liselott Stenfeldt, Team Director and Head of Research and Development at Gehl
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and the Bernard van Leer Foundation
Urban Age Forum | Athens: towards a more liveable city?
Thursday 16 June 2022, 6:30-8:00pm EEST
Moderator: Alexis Papahelas, Executive Editor of Kathimerini
Speakers: Kostas Bakoyannis, Mayor of Athens and Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities
Panel: Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris for urbanism, architecture, economic development and attractiveness (2014-2020) and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Cities; Georgios Panetsos, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Patras; Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy, LSE; Maria Vassilakou, Deputy Mayor of Vienna (2010-2019), and director, Vienna Solutions, Urban Transformation Consulting.
Policy and Social Change
Tuesday 31 May 2022, 6:30-8:00pm
Speakers: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities; Amara Enyia, Manager of Policy and Research with the Movement for Black Lives and founder of Global Black; Tracy Jooste, Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity; Robtel Neajai Pailey, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Policy at LSE
Chair: Armine Ishkanian, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme, International Inequalities Institute
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Architecture: the infrastructure of society
Thursday 26 May 2022, 1:00-2:15pm
Speakers: Yvonne Farrell, co-founder of Grafton Architects, Dublin, winner of the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize and designer of LSE's Marshall Building; Diébédo Francis Kéré, founder of Kéré Architecture, Burkina Faso/Germany and winner of the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize; Anne Lacaton, co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal Architects, Paris and winner of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize; Shelley McNamara, co-founder of Grafton Architects, Dublin, winner of the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize and designer of LSE's Marshall Building; Jeanne-Philippe Vassal, co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal Architects, Paris and winner of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize; Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities
Chair: Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Planning and designing cities for the early years
Thursday 12 May 2022, 6:30-8:00pm
Speakers: Cecilia Vaca Jones, Executive Director at the Bernard van Leer Foundation; Sean Maguire, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Clean Air Fund; Selva Gürdoğan, Architect and Partner at Superpool
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and the Bernard van Leer Foundation
The 15-minute City: a new urban model
Tuesday 26 April 2022, 6:30-8:00pm
Speaker: Carlos Moreno, Scientific Director of the ETI Chair (Entrepreneurship Territory Innovation) and Associate Professor at University Panthéon Sorbonne – IAE Paris
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and the Obel Award
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Rationalising Shopping: Are new patterns of consumption an opportunity for reinventing urbanity?
Wednesday 26 January 2022, 1.00-2.00pm
Speakers: Andrew Murphy, Executive Director of Operations at The John Lewis Partnership; Ewa Westermark, Architect and a Partner and Director at Gehl; Thomas Heatherwick, Designer and Founder of Heatherwick Studio; Jonathan De Mello, Equity Partner at CWM.
Chair: Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities
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Blog post by Thomas Heatherwick on emotion in place making
Cities at the Crossroads: public event to launch the Council on Urban Initiatives
Wednesday 3 November, 12.30-2.40pm
Speakers include a diverse group of internationally prominent urban leaders and practitioners: António Guterres, Secretary General, United Nations; Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO; Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat; Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona; LaToya Cantrell, Mayor of New Orleans; Claudia López, Mayor of Bogotá; Mariana Mazzucato, Director, IIPP, UCL; Richard Sennett, Visiting Professor of Urban Studies, MIT; and Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities.
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Changing Cultures: how are cultural institutions reframing their relationships with audiences, the community and the city?
13 October 2021, 5.00-6.00pm
Speakers: Elaine Bedell, Chief Executive of the Southbank Centre; Gabriella Gomez-Mont, founder of Experimentalista; Andreas Gorgen, head of the German Foreign Office's Culture and Communication Department
Moderator: Adrian Ellis, Director of AEA Consulting and Chair of the Global Cultural Districts Network
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Survival of the City: living and thriving in an age of isolation
23 September 2021, 12.45pm - 1.45pm
Speakers: Professor David Cutler, Otto Ekstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University; Professor Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Chair: Professor Jo Beall, Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow at LSE Cities
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The Response of Major Cities to the Challenges of the 21st Century
08 June 2021, 5.00-6.00pm
Speaker: Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities and Urban Age at LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and LSE Cities
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Localising Transport: Towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis?
20 May 2021, 1.00-2.00pm
Speakers: Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University; Sir Peter Hendy, Chair of Network Rail; Yolisa Kani, Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) of Transnet
Co-chairs: Isabel Dedring, Global Transport Leader and Group Board Member at Arup; Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at LSE
Hosted by LSE Cities, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the LSE School of Public Policy
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Humanising the City
27 April 2021, 5.30-7.00pm
Speakers: Elizabeth Diller, architech and partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R); Rozana Montiel, founder and director of Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura; Amanda Levete, founder and principal of Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A); Suketa Mehta, writer, critic and urbanist
Chair: Ricky Burdett, professor of Urban Studies, Director of LSE Cities, co-founder of the Urban Age.
Hosted by LSE Cities, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the LSE School of Public Policy
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Shaping the Post-COVID City: imagining futures to improve urban health
6 March 2021, 12.30-1.30pm
Speakers: Kieron Boyle, Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' Charity; Professor Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Director of LSE London at LSE.
Chair: Dr Suzanne Hall, Associate Professor in Sociology and Director of the Cities Programme at LSE.
Hosted by LSE Festival: Shaping the Post-COVID World
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Socialising Remote Work
19 January 2021, 1.00-2.15pm
Speakers: Richard Florida, urbanist, author and journalist, Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy, University of Toronto; Ayesha Khanna, strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, CEO of AI solutions and incubator ADDO AI, Singapore; Janina Kugel, independant strategic advisor, member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG (2015-2020)
Chair: Camilla Cavendish, author and contributing editor, Financial Times.
Hosted by LSE Cities, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the LSE School of Public Policy
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Blog post by Richard Florida on Remote work, Peloton and online education.
Richard Florida in conversation with Ricky Burdett.
Experiencing Density: Report Launch
Tuesday 10 March 2020, 6:30-8:00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ
Speakers: Kath Scanlon, Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE London; Loretta Lees, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester; Sripriya Sudhakar, Head of Regeneration, London Borough of Tower Hamlets; Bob Allies, Architect and Founding Partner, Allies and Morrison
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and LSE London
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Shaping London
Tuesday 3 March 2020, 6:00-7:00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ
Speakers: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities; Muhammed Butt, Leader, Brent Council; Amica Dall, Founding Director, Assemble; Georgia Gould, Leader, Camden Council
Chair: Tony Travers, Director, LSE London
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and LSE Festival: Shape the World
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(Re)imagining synAthina for the 2020s
Tuesday 11 February 2020, 6:30-8:00pm
Summet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE
Speakers: Amalia Zepou, Former Vice Mayor for Civil Society and Innovation, Municipality of Athens, and Bloomberg Visiting Fellow in Government Innovation at LSE Cities.
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities
Smarter London: The role of city government for a digital future
Tuesday 10 December 2019 | 18:30-20:00
Wolfson Theatre, LSE New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ
Speaker: Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer, Mayor of London's Office
Respondent: Léan Doody, Associate Director & Europe Digital Property and Smart Cities Leader, Arup
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities
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Making Connections for Climate Action: urban transport and renewable energy
Thursday 14 November 2019 | 18:30-20:00
LSE Shaw Library, Old Building, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE
Speakers: Florian Bieberbach, Chief Executive Officer of Stadtwerke München;
Juliet Davenport, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy;
Rasita Chudasama, Principal Transport Planner at Nottingham City Council; and
Keith Townsend, Corporate Director of Environment and Regeneration at Islington Council
Chair: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and the Urban Transport Group
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Planning New York
Tuesday 5 November 2019 | 18:30-20:00
LSE Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, 1 Sheffield St, WC2A 2AP
Speaker: Marisa Lago, Director NYC Planning Department
Respondent: Tony Travers, Director, LSE London
Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Director, US Centre, LSE
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities, LSE School of Public Policy and LSE US Centre
Led by children: designing an inclusive city
Wednesday 18 September 2019 | 18:30-20:00
Auditorium, LSE Centre Buildings, Houghton St, WC2A 2AE
Speaker: Erion Vellaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania
Respondent: Amica Dall
Chair: Ricky Burdett
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities
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Athens’ Grassroots Regeneration: Reflections from Mayor Georgios Kaminis
Tuesday 2 April 2019 | 18:30-20:00
Speaker: Georgios Kaminis, Mayor of Athens
Respondents: Kevin Featherstone, Myria Georgiou
Chair: Ricky Burdett
Public lecture hosted by Hellenic Observatory and LSE Cities
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Developing Urban Futures
Thursday 28 February 2019 | 19:00-20:00
Speakers: Jo Beall, Ricky Burdett, Alcinda Honwana, Philipp Rode
Chair: Sue Parnell
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders
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The Role of Cities in a Global Economy
Tuesday 19 February 2019 | 09:30-10:30
Speaker: Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, USA
Moderator: Caroline Daniel
Public lecture hosted by Chicago Council on Global Affairs and LSE Cities
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Political Strategies and Tactics for Transformative Urban Change
Tuesday 12 February 2019 | 18:30-20:00
New Academic Building, LSE
Spearker: Diane E Davis, Alejandro Echeverri
Chair: Philipp Rode
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities
City Planning in the Digital Age
Tuesday 11 December 2018
Speaker: Peter Madden
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Ponte City-as-Archive of Loss
Thursday 29 November 2018
Speaker: Ed Charlton
Palaces for the People
Wednesday 10 October 2018
Speaker: Eric Klinenberg
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Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (London)
Wednesday 26 September 2018
Speakers: Eduarda La Rocque; Saskia Sassen; Nicholas Stern
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Turning data into design
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Speakers: Alexandra Gomes; Peter Griffiths; Zung Nguyen Vu; Camilla Siggaard Andersen
Shaping Cities in an Urban Age | Venice Biennale Meetings on Architecture
Saturday 15 September 2018
Speakers: Jose Castillo; Shelley McNamara; Jean-Louis Missika
Kengo Kuma on architecture and identity
Saturday 23 June 2018
Speaker: Kengo Kuma
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Governing Compact Cities
Monday 18 June 2018
Book launch hosted by LSE Cities
Speaker: Dr Philipp Rode
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India's Smart Cities Agenda
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Speakers: Jagan Shah; Ricky Burdett
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Transforming Nigeria’s urban agenda
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Speakers: Babatunde Fashola; Ricky Burdett
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Democratic lives in the 21st century
Monday 16 April 2018
Speakers: Helen Clark; Yves Leterme; Darrell Bradley; Tony Travers; Helena Zaum; Michael McQuarrie
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Too Big: Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Speaker: Henk Ovink; Jo da Silva; Philipp Rode
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City ambition: Why we need it, what it looks like, how we get there
Monday 9 April 2018
Speakers: James Anderson; Ricky Burdett
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Building and Dwelling: ethics for the city
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Speakers: Richard Sennett; Edwin Heathcote, Ricky Burdett
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Migration and the city
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Speakers: Ash Amin; Victoria Redclift; Ricky Burdett
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Getting Ahead of the Curve: addressing housing needs in rapidly growing cities
Friday 23 February 2018
Speakers: Rubbina Carruna; Paul Collier; Paida Hlambelo; Priya Manwaring
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At the Limits of Urban Theory: Racial Banishment in the Contemporary City
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Speakers: Ananya Roy; Ricky Burdett
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Resource Urbanisms London report launch
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Speakers: Philipp Rode; Roby Dodge; Roudaina Al Khani; David Green
Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism
Tuesday 5 December 2017
Speaker: Cassim Shepard
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Efficiency by Design: Urban growth in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Singapore
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Speaker: Philipp Rode
Chair: Amani Albedah
The New Urban Crisis
Monday 9 October 2017
Speaker: Richard Florida
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High Streets for All
Thursday 28 September 2017
Speakers: Jules Pipe; Ricky Burdett; Dan Ebanks; Suzanne Hall; Jim Hubbard; Debbie Jackson; Holly Lewis
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Innovation, Governance, Technology – are they connected?
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Speakers: Rohan Silva; Ricky Burdett
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A Place for All People
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Speakers: Richard Rogers; Amanda Levete; Alan Yentob; Ricky Burdett
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Good Growth by Design – A Vision for London
Monday 10 July 2017
Speakers: Sadiq Khan; Tony Travers; Ricky Burdett; Sadie Morgan; Jackie Sadek
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Experiences from the front lines in de Blasio’s New York City
Tuesday 13 June 2017
Speaker: Carl Weisbrod
Urban Uncertainty report launch
Thursday 8 June 2017
Speakers: Sobia Ahmad Kaker; Jonathan Silver; Austin Zeidermann
Radical Technologies: The design of everyday life
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Speakers: Adam Greenfield; Philipp Rode
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Capacity building for city leadership: The role of universities
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Speakers: Michele Acuto; Ricky Burdett; Tessa Jowell; Philipp Misselwitz; Eddie Ng; Sue Parnell; Aromar Revi; Philipp Rode; Jagan Shah; Savvas Verdis
London 2050: Rethinking Long-Term Planning
Tuesday 4 April 2017
Speakers: Isabel Dedring; Tony Travers
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The Well-Tempered City
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Speakers: Jonathan F.P. Rose; Richard Sennett
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Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - London
Wednesday 22 March to Thursday 23 March 2017
Speakers: Muhammad Adeel; Sharifa Alshalfan; Alexandra Gomes; Andreas Koch; Christiane Lange; Syed Monjur; Fizzah Sajjad; Peter Schwinger; Devisari Tunas
Chair: Philipp Rode
Vienna: An Open City in Divisive Times
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Speakers: Maria Vassilakou; Suzanne Hall; Savvas Verdis
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The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Beijing)
Saturday 25 February 2017
Speakers: Shi Nan; Saskia Sassen; Richard Sennet; Zhang Yonghe
London: Bike city? LSE Literary Festival discussion
Saturday 25 February 2017
Speakers: Rachel Aldred; Emily Chappell; Michael Hutchinson; James Spackman
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Urban Governance and the New Urban Agenda: Implications for Governments
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Speakers: Philipp Rode; Tony Travers; Henk Ovink; Sue Parnell; Clare Short
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The Quito Papers: towards the open city (London)
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Speakers: Ricky Burdett; Saskia Sassen; Richard Sennett; Wendy Pullan
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Building Knowledge
Tuesday 24 January 2017
Speakers: Anupama Kundoo; Shumi Bose; Ricky Burdett
Roger Madelin in Conversation with Ricky Burdett
Tuesday 13 December 2016
Speakers: Ricky Burdett; Roger Madelin
The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Paris)
Wednesday 7 December 2016
Speakers: Ricky Burdett; Jean-Louis Missika; Saskia Sassen; Richard Sennett
State of European Cities
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Speakers: Richard Brown; Ricky Burdett; Alexandra Jones; Tony Travers
Urbanisation Trends in South Asia: The Case of Karachi
Thursday 17 November 2016
Speakers: Arif Hasan; Philipp Rode
Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
Thursday 3 November 2016
Speaker: Farah Al-Nakib
Respondent: Philipp Rode
Chair: Courtney Freer
Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Speaker: Nelida Fuccaro
LSE Cities at Habitat III
Monday 17 October 2016
Next Steps for the Northern Powerhouse ***cancelled***
Wednesday 12 October 2016
City Planning and Health: a Global Challenge
Thursday 6 October 2016
Speaker: Billie Giles-Corti
Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East
Speaker: Nelida Fuccaro
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Designing Respect Exhibition
Tuesday 4 October 2016
Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - Kuwait
Wednesday 28 September 2016
Speakers: Muhammad Adeel, Amani Al-Bedah, Sharifa Alshalfan, Alexandra Gomes, Jenny McArthur, Syed Monjur, Peter Schwinger
Cities and the new climate economy: on the role of urban form and transport
Tuesday 27 September 2016
Speaker: Philipp Rode
Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - Abu Dhabi
Monday 26 September 2016
Speakers: Muhammad Adeel, Hadrian Dubucs, Eric Fouache, Alexandra Gomes, Jenny McArthur, Syed Monjur, Peter Schwinger
The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Speaker: Boyd Cohen
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Tania Bruguera and Saskia Sassen: In Conversation
Thursday 18 August 2016
Speakers: Tania Bruguera; Saskia Sassen
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Johannesburg: A City Between
Monday 13 June 2016 to Friday 8 July 2016
Queering the African City: Johannesburg and Nairobi
Thursday 2 June 2016
Speaker: Mark Gevisser
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Protect and Develop
Thursday 5 May 2016
Speaker: David Chipperfield
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The World’s Climate Capital? COP21 and the Greening of Paris
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Speaker: Célia Blauel
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The Future City: cruel or consoling Utopia? LSE Cities Literary Festival discussion
Saturday 27 February 2016
Speakers: Darran Anderson, Matthew Beaumont, Rachel Cooper
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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
Thursday 21 January 2016
Speaker: Lisa Björkman
Detroit Rising?: Crisis, Bankruptcy, and Reinvention
Thursday 12 January 2016
Speaker: Thomas Sugrue
Narratives of Inclusion: Can cities help us live together?
Thursday 3 December 2015
An event of the Urban Age Global Debates series hosted by Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and LSE Cities
Speakers: Suketu Mehta; Richard Sennett
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Designing Urban Infrastructure: Investing for now or tomorrow?
Thursday 26 November 2015
Speaker: Norman Foster
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The Politics of Equity: Who owns the city?
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Speaker: Saskia Sassen
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Steering Urban Growth: Can planning and architecture manage?
Monday 23 November 2015
Speakers: Alejandro Aravena, Joan Clos
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Confronting Climate Change: Can cities be the solution?
Thursday 19 November 2015
Speakers: Karen C.Seto, Nicholas Stern
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Disrupting Mobility Summit
Wednesday 11 November 2015 to Friday 13 November 2015
London Launch of Towards New Urban Mobility Report
Monday 2 November 2015
Speakers: Christian Hoffman, Lilli Matson, Ben Plowden, Philipp Rode, Tony Travers
New Urban Diversities: London perspectives
Thursday 22 October 2015
Speakers: Suzanne Hall, Emma Jackson, Susanne Wessendorf
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Event Cancelled: Architecture and Urbanism
Monday 19 October 2015
Ordinary Streets - film launch
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Film screening and discussion hosted by LSE Cities
Speakers: Suzanne Hall, Myfanwy Taylor, Sophie Yetton
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Berlin Launch of Towards New Urban Mobility Report
Monday 21 September 2015
Speakers: Christian Hoffmann, Philipp Rode
Migrant Streets: exploring radical visualisation
Monday 21 September 2015
Spaces for Literacy
Thursday 20 August 2015 to Friday 21 August 2015
Erasure and displacement: urban memoryscapes workshop #2
Tuesday 16 June 2015
Designing the Urban Commons
Monday 15 June 2015
Designing Commons, Defining Commons
Thursday 11 June 2015
Double Vision exhibition
Monday 8 June 2015 to Thursday 11 June 2015
Hosted by the Mellon Fellowship Programme in Cities and Humanities at LSE Cities
The Happiness of Cities
Wednesday 20 May 2015
Speaker: Ed Glaeser
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Moving In and Around the City: Mobilities, Circulation, and Uncertainty
Tuesday 12 May 2015
Ash Amin: Lively Infrastructures
21 April 2015
Designing the Urban Commons: Lessons from the Field
Wednesday 25 March 2015
Speakers: Assembly SE8 , Atelier d'architecture autogérée , Public Works Group
Theatrum Mundi launches ideas competition Designing the Urban Commons, with an evening of provocations and discussion
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Ideas Competition: Designing the Urban Commons
Wednesday 25 March 2015
Configuring Light/Staging the Social events in Australia
Monday 16 March 2015 to Friday 27 March 2015
Theatrum Mundi LSE Literary Festival discussion
Saturday 28 February 2015
An urbanising world: triumph or tragedy?
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Speaker: Herbert Girardet
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Configuring Light's 3rd ESRC Seminar: Lighting Futures
Thursday 19 February 2015
Urban memoryscapes: space and memory in the post-conflict city
17 February 2015
Better Growth, Better Climate: cities and the new climate economy
Thursday 29 January 2015
Speaker: Philipp Rode
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Energy Transitions: Implications for City Governments
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Exhibition: Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes
Tuesday 27 January 2015
Managing Disruption, Avoiding Disaster and Growing Stronger in an Unpredictable World
Monday 19 January 2015
Speaker: Judith Rodin
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
Thursday 11 December 2014
Speaker: Keller Easterling
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Democracy, decency and devolution
Monday 8 December 2014
Speaker: Tessa Jowell
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Public lecture to celebrate Haworth Tompkins RIBA Stirling Prize 2014
Thursday 27 November 2014
Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference
Friday 14 November to Saturday 15 November 2014
Urban Futures in the 'Asian Century': Uncertainty, Speculation, Experimentation
Thursday 13 November 2014
Melbourne Unplugged
Wednesday 5 November 2014
Speaker: Rob Adams
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Peripheral Urbanisation
Thursday 23 October 2014
Speaker: Teresa Caldeira
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Moving Kiruna: A community reinventing its city
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Symposium: Urban Lightscapes / Social Nightscapes
Friday 17 October 2014
Workshop: Urban Lightscapes / Social Nightscapes
Monday 13 October 2014 to Friday 17 October 2014
Lighting the Local
22 September 2014
A City Worth Fighting For
Tuesday 16 September 2014
Speakers: Adam Greenfield; Leo Hollis; Judy Wajcman
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Mediating Uncertainty: Information and the Urban
Thursday 11 September 2014
City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning points for civilisation
Sunday 10 August 2014 to Monday 11 August 2014
Petro-urbanisms: Urban futures on the oil frontier
Tuesday 8 July 2014
Kapital Architecture: Commodity
Thursday 19 June 2014
Space for Architecture
Monday 16 June 2014
Speakers: Sheila O’Donnell; John Tuomey; Ricky Burdett
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Elephant and Castle Walkshop
Monday 16 June 2014
Urban Governance Futures: Scenarios for London
Monday 16 June 2014
Cities, Fragility and Conflict in an Uncertain World
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Saskia Sassen: Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
Tuesday 13 May 2014
Speaker: Saskia Sassen
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Configuring Light night walk
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Configuring Light/ Staging the Social: Lighting London
Thursday 24 April 2014
Configuring the Urban Night
Thursday 10 April 2014
Cities and the New Climate Economy
Thursday 10 April 2014
Transforming Indian Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
Thursday 3 April 2014
City Religion Capitalism
Thursday 3 April 2014 to Saturday 5 April 2014
Speakers: José Casanova, David Chipperfield, Alexander Kluge, Angelika Neuwirth, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Joseph Vogl
An event hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt in partnership with Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and LSE Cities
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Caught in the Crossfire: Urban Violence, Inside and Out
Thursday 3 April 2014
Urban data: From fetish object to social object
Friday 14 March 2014
Policing the Possible: Governing Potential Criminality
Friday 28 February 2014
Broken Edges: Cities and Other Ruins
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Between life and death in Kinshasa: Film screening + discussion
Thursday 30 January 2014
Shifting Ground: The Precarity of Land on the Urban Periphery
Thursday 30 January 2014
Transformative Design for Social Integration
Thursday 28 November 2013
Renewing Indian Cities: Challenges of Urbanisation and Development
Monday 25 November 2013
Going Green: How cities are leading the next economy
Monday 4 November 2013
The Metropolitan Revolution: Perspectives from US cities
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Speaker: Bruce Katz
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Global migration and urban renewal
Thursday 10 October 2013
Speakers: Philip Kasinitz, Michael Keith;; Rob Berkeley; Tim Finch; Sharon Zukin; Mike Savage
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Word on the Street: City vocabularies of migration and diversity
Thursday 10 October 2013
Negotiating spaces: design for knowing
Thursday 3 October 2013
Networked Futures: The Politics of Urban Infrastructure
Tuesday 27 August 2013
The Pandemic City: Governing Urban Health and Disease
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Theatrum Mundi launches Negotiating Spaces: Time, Knowledge, Place, Material
Tuesday 25 June 2013
RAMSES workshop: progress on EU cities and climate change adaptation project
Monday 24 June 2013
Multilingual Streets: London's litmus strips of change
Wednesday 5 June 2013
From Response to Resilience: the role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Respondent: Jo da Silva
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Catastrophic Urbanism: Disaster, Emergency, Cities
Tuesday 28 May 2013
Embodied City – Mit Kunst Stadt entwickeln
Saturday 25 May 2013
NightSeeing™
Thursday 23 May 2013
Fluid Uncertainty: Prospects of Urban Water
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Interdisciplinary action for urban health
Friday 26 April 2013
Spaces-in-Between: The City Becoming Ideas Camp
Saturday 20 April to Thursday 25 April 2013
London Going East
Monday 18 March to Thursday 21 March 2013
Healthy African Cities
Thursday 7 March 2013
Speakers: Gora Mboup; Vanessa Watson; Ama de Graft Aikins
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Between Curatorial and Urban Practice
Saturday 2 March 2013
Globalization, Fear and Insecurity
Monday 11 February 2013
Land of the Seven Rivers: A brief history of India's geography
Thursday 17 January 2013 to Tuesday 15 January 2013
Book launch of the LSE Cities public lectures series hosted by Asia Research Centre, India Observatory and LSE Cities
Speaker: Sanjeev Sanyal; Anshu Jain
City, street and citizen: the measure of the ordinary
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Book launch hosted by LSE Cities and LSE Sociology Forum
Speakers: Suzanne Hall; Caroline Knowles; Claire Alexander
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The architecture of the Olympics
Tuesday 15 May 2012
Speakers: Andy Altman, Ricky Burdett, Jim Eyre, Jim Heverin, Michael Taylor
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Rebel Cities: the urbanisation of class struggle
Thursday 10 May 2012
Speaker: David Harvey
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High speed rail and urban space
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Speaker: Terry Farrell
The return of the subject
Monday 30 April 2012
Speakers: Ash Amin, Michel Wieviorka
Book launch hosted by LSE Cities
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Under the cranes: literature, film and the city
Saturday 3 March 2012
Speakers: Michael Rosen; Emma-Louise
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A public health approach to suicide prevention in Hong Kong
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Speaker: Paul S.F. Yip
The World Bank-supported "Urbanization Knowledge Platform"
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Speakers: Sumila Gulyani, Abha Joshi-Ghani, Antoni Vives
The tale of two regions
Thursday 1 September 2011
Urban regeneration and social sustainability
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Speakers: Andrea Colantonio; Tim Dixon; Brian Field, Jan Olbrycht
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Living in the endless city
Monday 6 June 2011
Speakers: Ricky Burdett, Joan Clos, Gareth Jones, Çağlar Keyder, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Deyan Sudjic When
Book launch hosted by LSE Cities
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The architecture of social investment
Friday 20 May 2011
Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities and LSE Venezuelan Society
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Distance and cities: where do we stand?
Thursday 19 May 2011
Speakers: Gerald Frug, Asher Ghertner, Patrik Schumacher, Richard Sennett, Fran Tonkiss, Larry
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The architecture of governance: the structure of democracy
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Speaker: Gerald Frug
Cities and climate change
Monday 28 March 2011
Speaker: Joan Clos, Under Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Habitat
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A vision for the next urban economy: from macro to metro
Thursday 24 March 2011
Speakers: Ricky Burdett, Bruce Katz
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Ecological Urbanism
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Speaker: Mohsen Mostafavi
African urbanism
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Speaker: Edgar Pieterse
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The Naked City
Monday 17 January 2011
Speaker: Sharon Zukin
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Politics, power, cities
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Speaker: Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia
Cities and buildings
Monday 29 November 2010
Speaker: Richard Rogers
Lagos: confronting change in a global megacity
Friday 19 November 2010
Speaker: Babatunde Fashola
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Cities under siege: the new military urbanism
Monday 7 June 2010
Speaker: Stephen Graham
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Mexico City: inclusive actions towards sustainability
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Speaker: Marcelo Ebrard
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Climate change: the city solution
Tuesday 1 June 2010
Speaker: Ritt Bjerregaard, Mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Beirut normal
Tuesday 25 May 2010
Speaker: Hashim Sarkis
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Kinetic city: designing for informality in Mumbai
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Speaker: Rahul Mehrotra
Cities, design and climate change
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Speakers: Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett
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Urban technologies and the environment
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Speaker: Peter Head
Public lecture of the Cities and the environment series hosted by Urban Age in partnership with Ove Arup Foundation
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Architecture as investment: New forms of social equity
Monday 27 April 2009
Speaker: Alejandro Aravena
Public lecture hosted by Urban Age in partnership with Monocle
The politics of mobility
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Speaker: Peter Hendy, Commissioner of Transport for London
Public lecture of the Understanding cities series hosted by Urban Age.
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London in a global context
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Speakers: Ricky Burdett, Simon Milton, Deyan Sudjic, Tony Travers
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