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The Urban Age Istanbul Conference is just around the corner, and the submissions are in for the 3rd Annual Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, recognising a project in the Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Region with a prize of $100,000 USD. Urban Age released Cities and Social Equity, a collaborative research report based on the 2008 investigation of South American cities. Building on the continued success of research, conferences, and outreach, Deutsche Bank Chairman Josef Ackermann and LSE Director Howard Davies announced the creation of LSE Cities, an international centre for urban excellence at the LSE. At the same time, the launch of the Cities and the Environment lecture series, with support from the Ove Arup Foundation, and the continuation of the Understanding Cities debate series at the LSE is expanding the impact of the Urban Age programme and the global debate about the future of our cities.
Ricky Burdett
Director, Urban Age
London School of Economics
Wolfgang Nowak
Managing Director
Alfred Herrhausen Society
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Urban Age Istanbul Conference, 4–6 November 2009
Boğaziçi Bridge, the 'First' bridge, carries part of an estimated 420,000 cars every day, added to hundreds of thousands that cross the continents via ferries and sea buses. Photo credit: Paolo Rosselli
Following a year of in-depth research, the Urban Age Istanbul conference confronts the social, spatial, economic, political and environmental narratives of contemporary urban life. By bringing over 80 experts and civic leaders from over 20 cities in 14 countries, the conference will catalyse an interdisciplinary discussion about a city that lies at the intersection of histories, cultures and continents. Participants include architect Richard Rogers; sociologist Çağlar Keyder; Josef Ackerman, Deutsche Bank; New York transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan; Kemal Derviş, Brookings Institute; political economist Saskia Sassen; planning professor İlhan Tekeli; and sociologist Richard Sennett. For more information, go to www.urban-age.net.
Urban Age Mexico City symposium, 4 September 2009
Urban Age returned to Mexico following the Urban Age Mexico City conference in 2006. The focus was on 'The next Urban Economy' and 'City Design, Politics and Transport'. The symposium ran on 4 September 2009 at MIDE, the Interactive Museum of Economics.
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The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award
92 projects across the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality submitted for this year’s Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award. The variety of the submissions represents the collective ingenuity of the people of Istanbul at the intersection of vast and changing economic and environmental uncertainty. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 4 November 2009.
$100,000 for an outstanding project in Istanbul, Turkey
Winner Announced, 4 November 2009
Istanbul Award Jury:
- Ricky Burdett, Jury Chair, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics
- Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, Chair, Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association
- Caglar Keyder, Professor, Sociolgy, Bogazici University, Istanbul
- Behic Ak, Cartoonist, Architect, Istanbul
- Enrique Norten, architect, TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York City
- Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1997-2006, Washington, D.C.
- Han Tumertekin, Architect, Mimarlar Design, Istanbul
Urban Technologies and the Environment – 14 October, LSE
The Cities and the Environment lecture series is a new collaboration between the Ove Arup Foundation and the LSE. For its innaugural lecture, Peter Head, Arup Director of Planning Plus, will focus on what makes cities sustainable and how changing urban technologies enable us to change our patterns of behaviour, describing how to retrofit old cities and design new ones to meet the challenges of climate change. Read more.
Cities, Design and Climate Change – 17 November, LSE
With cities contributing a disproportionate amount of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. Urban Age's Understanding Cities lecture series continues with Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett examining the social, political and economic impacts of creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities. Read more.
LAUNCH - South America Research Report: Cities and Social Equity
Photo credit: Nelson Kon
In September 2009, the Urban Age launched Cities and Social Equity: Inequality, territory and urban form with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University.
Green Economy Report
Urban Age Director Ricky Burdet and Executive Director Philipp Rode are coordinating authors as part of the United Nations Environment Programme's forthcoming 2010 publication of the Green Economy Report. Collaborating with various institutions, their team will deliver chapters on 'Sustainable Buildings' and 'Green Buildings'. Read more.
Online Essay Archive
From Richard Sennett, Tony Travers and Sophie Body-Gendrot, to David Satterthwaite, Enrique Peñalosa and Patricia Romero Lankao, experts reflect on the scale and pace of urban change in the world's largest cities. Click here for the full list.
LSE Cities Launch
LSE Cities Launch Event
Deutsche Bank Chairman Josef Ackermann and LSE Director Howard Davies announced the creation of LSE Cities, an international centre for urban excellence, with an endowment of £1 million from Deutsche Bank each year over a period of five years. Read more.
Burdett joins Global Agenda Council
Ricky Burdett, Director of Urban Age, has been named a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Urban Management. The Global Agenda Council's are communities of experts, created by the World Economic Forum, around specific issues considered as the most critical at global level. There are more than 70 issues in total, urban management being one of them. Read more.
Global City Regions
A new edited volume by Urban Age Advisor Xiangming Chen is published, with contributions from Executive Director of the Urban Age Philipp Rode, and Urban Age Advisors Edward Soja and Dieter Läpple. Read more.
Bringing the Penal State Back In | 6 October, LSE
Urban sociologist Loïc Wacquant argues that we need to bring the penal state back to the centre of the sociology of social inequality, public policy, and citizenship, in this British Journal of Sociology 2009 public debate. Fran Tonkiss, Director of the Cities Programme, LSE is chair. Read more.
What Makes India Urban? | 9 October – 26 November, Berlin
In collaboration with the Alfred Herrhausen Society, Aedes Gallery in Berlin presents 'What Makes India Urban? Challenges towards Mobility, Infrastructure, Energy and Perpetual Change'. Read more.
Beijing Inside Out | 19 October, LSE
Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray examine the problems and possibilities of one of many dynamic new urban villages redefining the city of Beijing in the James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City. Organised by the LSE Cities Programme in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Center for Architecture, New York. Read more.
Designing the Social and Environmental Infrastructure of the Global City | 19 October, MIT Architecture
Ricky Burdett to give public lecture as part of the 'Big Issues' Architecture Lecture Series. Read more.
Cities in an Urban Age: Does Design Matter? | 20 October, GSD Harvard
Ricky Burdett to give an illustrated talk on how the physical and social fabric of world cities is changing and the role that architecture and design can play in making cities more socially and environmentally sustainable. Read more.
The Endless City | 21 October, University of Texas at Austin
Richard Burdett will lecture on 'The Endless City' at the University of Texas at Autin's School of Architecture, sponsored by the Dallas Urban Laboratory. Read more.
The First Legacy Games | 10 November, LSE
Andrew Altman, Paul Brickell, Ricky Burdett and Roger Taylor explore the planning and physical development of the Olympic Park after the 2012 games. Organised by the Cities Programme at the LSE and the London Development Agency Legacy Now Team. Read more.
Past Events
Megacities: Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development | 7 – 9 September, Leipzig
Executive Director of the Urban Age Philipp Rode presented 'City making as climate policy implications for governance, planning and transport'. Read more.
Towards Alternative Urban Futures for India | 24 – 26 September, Delhi
Urban Age is a supporting organisation of the Habitat Summit, and Executive Director of the Urban Age Phliipp Rode presented 'Urbanisation as a development policy: India, China and the world'. Read more.
1st International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development in Syrian Cities | 27 – 29 September, Damascus
In collaboration with GTZ, Executive Director of the Urban Age Philipp Rode presented 'The Urban Age – Global perspectives on the Status of Cities / Findings and recommendations from 5 continents'. Read more.