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
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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.
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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
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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