2011-09 Lsecities Booklet

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In cities,gooddesignis social


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The Cities Programme, which is the

graduate education branch o LSE Cities,ofers both Masters and PhD-level degreeswithin the LSEs Department o Sociology.Executive teaching programmes, summerschools and short courses that link to LSECities core research interests will also beofered. In addition, the centre holds anactive public lecture programme withleading academics and practitioners,including architects, policymakers,urbanists and mayors.

Extending LSEs century-oldcommitment to the understanding o

urban society, LSE Cities investigates howcomplex urban systems are respondingto the pressures o growth, change andglobalisation, with new inrastructureso design and governance that bothcomplement and threaten social andenvironmental equity.

LSE Cities is an international centre at the

London School o Economics and PoliticalScience that carries out research,education and outreach activities inLondon and abroad. Its mission is to studyhow people and cities interact in a rapidlyurbanising world, ocussing on how thedesign o cities impacts on society, cultureand the environment. Through research,conerences, teaching and projects, thecentre aims to shape new thinking andpractice on how to make cities airer andmore sustainable or the next generation ourban dwellers, who will make up some 70

per cent o the global population by 2050.LSE Cities is one o a small number

o research centres that contribute toLSEs reputation as one o the oremostsocial science universities in the world.With the support o Deutsche BanksAlred Herrhausen Society, the centrebuilds on the interdisciplinary work o theUrban Age Programme, an internationalinvestigation o cities around the worldthat since 2005 has studied the social andspatial dynamics o metropolitan areassuch as Istanbul, So Paulo, Mumbai,

Johannesburg, New York City andLondon.

LSE Cities


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Beyond the high-rise city, religiousfestivals regularly transformMumbais waterfront.Photographby Jehangir Sorabjee


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Each conerence is attended by

300-400 invited urban specialists,policymakers, scholars, designers,practitioners and politicians who presentnew ideas and developments onenvironmental equity, social inclusion,the problems o housing and migration,the global economy and the inormalsector, as well as on public transport,public space and social capital.

At recent conerences, national leaderssuch as German Chancellor AngelaMerkel and President o Mexico VicenteFox have joined the mayors o Berlin,

Mexico City, New Delhi, Chicago,Washington DC, Bogot and So Paulo,and internationally renowned academics,architects and activists, to debate a widerange o interdisciplinary issues. Specialconerence newspapers with criticalessays by local experts and internationalcommentators, as well as comparativeresearch on individual cities vitalstatistics, have been regularly publishedto coincide with each conerence.These are available at urban-age.net/publications/newspapers

The Urban Age Programme, jointly

organised with Deutsche Banks AlredHerrhausen Society, is an internationalinvestigation o the spatial and socialdynamics o cities centred on an annualconerence, research initiative andpublication. Since 2005, over tenconerences have been held in rapidlyurbanising regions in Arica and Asia,as well as in mature urban regions in theAmericas and Europe. As an event, theUrban Age catalyses the exchange oinormation, experiences and data acrossa global network o cities. The conerences

operate as mobile laboratories, testing andsampling the social and physicalcharacteristics o global cities throughexpert presentations and testimonials,research, site visits, mapping and inormalinormation exchange.

Urban Age


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Istanbuls hinge city status comesfrom its physical setting andgeographical context.Photograph by Ali Taptk


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LSE Cities is working and expanding

on parallel yet intersecting strands oresearch that cover the ollowing areas:

Cities, Space and Society urban culture and design economic development and inclusion cities, health and well-being

Cities and the Environment mobility and city access urban orm and resource eciency city design and technology

Urban Governance architecture and democracy metropolitan and regional cohesion mega-projects, inrastructure and

urban change

Research

Much o the current and uture research is

carried out in partnership with institutionsand individuals including:

Arican Centre or Cities, Universityo Cape TownAlan Baxter AssociatesThe Brookings Institution, Washington DCAjuntament de BarcelonaThe State o Bavaria and the City o MunichBuro HappoldBay Area Council Economic InstituteCentre or the Analysis o SocialExclusion, LSE

Cisco SystemsDeutsche Bank ResearchDistrito Federal, Mexico CityEuropean Institute or Energy Research(EIFER), Karlsruhe Institute o TechnologyThe Grantham Research Institute onClimate Change and the Environment, LSEGreater London AuthorityHong Kong UniversityIndian Institute o TechnologyNetherlands Ministry o Housing, SpatialPlanning, and the EnvironmentOlympic Park Legacy Company

Ove Arup FoundationRogers, Stirk and Harbour + PartnersLa Citt di TorinoSeoul Development InstituteThe State and City o So PauloWorld Health SummitWorld Health OrganisationUN HabitatUnited Nations Environment ProgrammeUniversity o So Paulo


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Extremes of wealth and povertyas shown here on the edge of theParaispolis favela, So Paulo,represent deep inequalities in the city.Photograph by Tuca Vieira


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Urban@LSE

Urban@LSE is a portal or Masters andDoctoral teaching and or researchactivities on urban issues across the LSE.It aims to provide a resource or aculty,researchers and graduate students, aswell as an overview o urban teachingand research at LSE or prospectivestudents and other visitors.

LSE has a distinctive concentrationo urban specialists in a number odisciplinary areas, and is an unrivalledcentre or postgraduate study in the areao city design, urban and regional planning,

urbanisation and development, and theeconomic, social, political and policy aspectso contemporary urban lie.

LSE researchers bring together a rangeo disciplinary expertise to link the urbansocial sciences with the design andgovernance o cities, urban inrastructure,environment and development, with aunique concentration o urban specialistsin diferent subject areas - DevelopmentStudies, Economics, Geography andEnvironment, Government, Social Policy,and Sociology.

LSE Cities Programme

The Cities Programme is an innovativecentre or graduate teaching and researchon urban issues. The Programmesdistinctive ocus is on the relationshipbetween the physical and socialdevelopment o cities. It ofers degreesat Masters and PhD levels. The MSc CityDesign and Social Science is based oninterdisciplinary teamwork in research-based studios led by urban academics andpractitioners. It draws directly rom theexceptional range o expertise within andassociated with LSE Cities.

The Cities Programme understandsdesign as a mode o research and practicethat shapes urban environments, respondsto urban problems, and connects social,spatial and material orms in the city.It takes a multi-disciplinary approachto these issues, drawing on expertiseand insights rom the social sciences,architecture, urban design, urbanplanning and related elds.

Students on the MPhil/PhD Citiesconduct independent research underthe supervision o expert supervisors.

Doctoral students come rom a rangeo national and disciplinary contexts,enhancing the Programmes vibrantresearch and teaching environment.

For more inormation, visit www2.lse.ac.uk/LSECities/citiesprogramme.

Education


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Public lecture series at LSE

LSE Cities hosts a series o provocativeand insightul public lectures, attractingthe worlds leading urban academics,practitioners and politicians to discussurban best practice, policy, and cuttingedge theoretical and methodologicaldebates. Videos and podcasts romLSE Cities public lectures are reelyavailable online.

Experts SeminarsLSE Cities brings together specialistgroups o leaders in various urban elds

under the banner o Experts Seminars.The seminars encourage interdisciplinarydiscussion between its expert participantsrom academic, government, design,industry or NGO backgrounds oninnovative projects, ideas and theoriesrelating to urban issues.

In addition to the Urban Age, LSE Cities

hosts a wide range o internationalconerences, public lecture series,seminars and awards that span thecore o our research goals, and workto consolidate a growing network ourban experts.

Deutsche Bank Urban Age AwardEstablished in 2007, the Deutsche BankUrban Age Award recognises projects thatimprove the physical conditions ocommunities and the lives o theirresidents, establishing a network o urban

initiatives at the grassroots level. The rstaward was given out in Mumbai (2007),ollowed by So Paulo (2008), Istanbul(2009), and most recently Mexico City(2010). www.urban-age.net/dbua-award

Outreach


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Growing upwards and outwardsat spiralling speeds, Shanghai isan urban experiment in-the-making.Photograph by Olivo Barbieri


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Advisory Board

Richard Sennett (Chair)Proessor o Sociology New YorkUniversity and Proessor o Sociologyemeritus, LSEDavid AdjayePrincipal Architect, Adjaye AssociatesAlejandro AravenaExecutive Director, ELEMENTAL S.A.Amanda BurdenCommissioner, New York CityDepartment o City PlanningJos CastilloPrincipal, Arquitectura 911 SC

Joan Clos i MatheuExecutive Director o United NationsHuman Settlements Programme(UNHabitat)Job CohenLabour Party Leader, the NetherlandsMarcelo EbrardMayor o Mexico CityGerald FrugLouis D. Brandeis Proessor o Law,Harvard UniversityRichard HaryottChair, Ove Arup Foundation

Anshu JainHead o the Corporate & InvestmentBank, Member o the Management BoardDeutsche Bank

Governing Board

Ricky BurdettProessor o Urban Studies,LSE and Director, LSE CitiesRahul MehrotraProessor and Chair o the Departmento Urban Planning and Design, GraduateSchool o Design, Harvard UniversityWolfgang NowakManaging Director,Alred Herrhausen SocietyPhilipp RodeExecutive Director and Senior ResearchFellow, LSE Cities

Nicholas SternIG Patel Proessor o Economics andGovernment, LSE and Chair, GranthamResearch Institute on Climate Change, LSEUte WeilandDeputy Director, Alred HerrhausenSociety

Executive GroupRicky BurdettProessor o Urban Studies, LSE andDirector, LSE CitiesPhilipp Rode

Executive Director and Senior ResearchFellow, LSE CitiesFran TonkissDirector, Cities Programme and Readerin Sociology, LSE

Whos who


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Sarah Davis

Management Accounts Co-ordinatorAtakan GuvenResearch OcerSuzanne HallCities Programme and Research FellowMiranda IossidisDesignerCristina Inclan-ValadezResearcherMariane JangProject ManagerAnna JohnstonCities Programme Administrator;

Urban@LSE Co-ordinatorAdam KaasaCommunications ManagerJens KandtResearcherGesine KippenbergResearcherIrina KraichevaResearcherJenny MbayeUrban@LSE Co-ordinatorClaire MookerjeeProject Co-ordinator

Max NathanResearch FellowAntoine PaccoudResearcherEmma ReesExecutive and Admin AssistantGuido RobazzaResearcherAndrea RotaWebmaster

Julian Le Grand

Richard Titmuss Proessor o SocialPolicy, LSEEnrique PealosaUrban Vision and Strategy Consultant;ormer Mayor o Bogot (1998-2001)Edgar PieterseDirector, Arican Centre or Cities,University o Cape TownRichard RogersFounder, Rogers Stirk Harbour + PartnersSaskia SassenRobert S. Lynd Proessor o Sociology,Columbia University

David SatterthwaiteSenior Fellow, Human Settlements Group,International Institute or Environmentand Development (IIED)Deyan SudjicDirector, Design MuseumAlejandro Zaera PoloDirector, Alejandro Zaera Polo Architects

Sta since January 2010Cristina AlaimoResearcherEtienne Cadestin

Researchermer avuoluResearcherAndrea ColantonioResearch OcerAyona DattaLecturer in Architecture andUrban Design, Cities ProgrammeJuliet DavisCities Programme and Research Fellow


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New York: Is Almost Alright?,Urban Age Conerence,New

York, 24-26 February 2005

Shanghai: The Fastest City?,Urban Age Conerence,Shanghai, 7-9 July 2005

London: Europes GlobalCity?, Urban AgeConerence, London,11-13 November 2005

Mexico City: Growth at theLimit?, Urban AgeConerence, Mexico City,23-25 February 2006

German Cities: SuccessBeyond Growth?, Urban AgeSymposium, Halle, 9-10May 2006

Johannesburg: Challengesof Inclusion?, Urban AgeConerence, Johannesburg,6-8 July 2006

Towards an Urban Age,Urban Age Summit, Berlin,10-11 November 2006

Urban India: Understandingthe Maximum City, UrbanAge Conerence, Mumbai,

1-3 November 2007

South American Cities:Securing an Urban Future,Urban Age Conerence, SoPaulo, 3-5 December 2008

Istanbul: City ofIntersections, Urban AgeConerence, Istanbul,4-6 November 2009

Global Metro Summit, LSECities, Alred Herrhausen

Society and BrookingsInstitution Conerence,7-8 December 2010

Cities, Health andWell-being, Urban AgeConerence, Hong Kong,16-17 November 2011

Learning from Mumbai,Urban Age PhD Seminarwith LSE Cities, MIT andHarvard, London, 29 May -15 June 2007

Uncovering Myths of Urban

Development in Mumbai,Tata Institute o SocialSciences, Mumbai,1 November 2007

Urban Habitats Forum,Delhi, 24-26 September2009

Urban Age Mexico CitySymposium, Urban AgeSymposium, 4 September2009

Global Green Cities,International Symposium,San Francisco, 23-25February 2011

Lizzie Rusbridger

AdministratorPeter SchwingerResearch FellowJames SchoeldResearcherNell StevensOutreach and CommunicationsCo-ordinatorDaniela TannerProject Co-ordinatorRobert TavernorProessor o Architecture andUrban Design

Myfanwy TaylorResearch OcerNatza TesfayProject Co-ordinatorSavvas VerdisCities Programme TeacherKatherine WallisAdministrator

Visiting AppointmentsGerald FrugVisiting ProessorLouis D. Brandeis Proessor o Law,

Harvard UniversityGraham FloaterVisiting Senior FellowDirector, The Climate CentreKaroliina HartialaVisiting Fellow, Cities ProgrammeAalto University, FinlandJoseph HeathcottVisiting Senior Fellow, Cities ProgrammeChair o Urban Studies, The New School,New York

Urban Age conferences


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Burdett, Ricky and Sudjic,Deyan eds. (2011) Living in

the Endless City, London:Phaidon.

Rode, Philipp et al (2011)Green Cities,Towardsa Green Economy Nairobi:United NationsEnvironment Programme.

Rode, Philipp et al (2011)Green Buildings, Towardsa Green Economy, Nairobi:United NationsEnvironment Programme.

Datta, Ayona (2011)

Translocal Geographies:Spaces, Places, Connections(ed. with KatherineBrickell), London: Ashgate

Burdett, Ricky and Kaasa,Adam (2011),GoverningChange: The MetropolitanRevolution in LatinAmerica,ArchitecturalDesign (Special Issue:Latin American at theCrossroads), May/June.

Datta, Ayona (2011)Mongrel City:Cosmopolitan

neighbourliness in a Delhisquatter settlement,Antipode: A radical journalof geography

Nathan, Max (2011) EastLondon Tech City: Ideaswithout a strategy?LocalEconomy 26(3), pp. 197-202

Tonkiss, Fran (201 1)Spatial causes, social

efects: A response to Soja,City, 15/1: 85-86.

Colantonio, Andrea andDixon, T. (2010) SocialSustainability and UrbanRegeneration: Best Practicesfrom European Cities, NewYork and Oxord:Wiley-Blackwell.

Burdett, Ricky, Rode,Philipp and Colantonio,Andrea, (2010)LSE CitiesNext Urban Economy Series:Global Metro Summit

Conference Papers, LSECities, London School oEconomics and PoliticalScience.

Rode, Philipp and Berube,Alan (2010) Global MetroMonitor, LSE Cities,London School oEconomics and PoliticalScience and MetropolitanPolicy Program, BrookingsInstitution.

Hall, Suzanne, Dinardi,Cecilia and Fernandez,Melissa (eds) 2010 WritingCities, London: LondonSchool o Economics andPolitical Science incollaboration with the MITSchool o Architecture andPlanning, HarvardGraduate School o Designand Harvard Law School.

Hall, Suzanne and Datta,Ayona (2010), The

Translocal Street: ShopSigns and LocalMulticulture along theWalworth Road, southLondon, in R. Tavernor(guest editor), Theme Issueon London 2000 2010,in City, Culture and Society,vol.1, no.2.

Tonkiss, Fran and Keddie,Jamie (2010) The marketand the plan: Housing,urban renewal andsocio-economic change inLondon, City,Culture and

Society 1/3.

Tonkiss, Fran (2010)Urban poverty and genderin advanced economies: thepersistence o eminiseddisadvantage, in:S. Chant(ed.) The InternationalHandbook of Gender andPoverty: concepts, research,policy. Cheltenham:Edward Elgar, pp. 153-8.

Tonkiss, Fran (2010)Searching or the just city:

debates in urban theoryand practice [Book review].Local Government Studies ,36 (4).

Tonkiss, Fran (2010)Letica dellindiferanza:communit e solitudinenella citt (Trans: LauraGherardi), DialoghiInternazionali:citt nelmondo. 13 (Autumn):pp. 146-59.

Burdett, Ricky and Kaasa,Adam (2010)Color and

the City,New Geographies ,Issue 3, Harvard GraduateSchool o Design, HarvardUniversity Press

Burdett, Ricky (2009)City-thinkingForCity-Building in eds.Deepa Naik and TrentonOldeld Critical Cities:Ideas, Knowledge andAgitation from EmergingUrbanists, London: MyrdleCourt Press.

Burdett, Ricky and Sudjic,Deyan eds. (2008) TheEndless City , London:Phaidon

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