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Digital Cities for Humans of for Profit?
Monday 18 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm

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

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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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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

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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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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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Urban Age Debates: Cities in the 2020s

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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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

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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Urban Age Debates: Cities in the 2020s

Localising Transport: Towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis?
20 May 2021

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: Can the design of urban space promote cohesion and healthier lifestyles?
27 April 2021

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

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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Urban Age Debates: Cities in the 2020s

Socialising Remote Work: Will changing patterns in knowledge work reduce or amplify the human need to meet in cities?
19 January 2021

Speakers: Richard Florida, urbanist and Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the University of Toronto; Ayesha Khanna, artificial intelligence strategist and co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI; Janina Kugel, senior human iresources advisor and Former member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG

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Experiencing Density: Report Launch
Tuesday 10 March 2020

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

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Shaping London
Tuesday 3 March 2020

Speakers: Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at LSE and Director of the Urban Age and LSE Cities; Muhammed Butt, Leader of Brent Council; Amica Dall, one of the directors of Assemble; Georgia Gould, Leader of Camden Council and Deputy Leader of London Councils; Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Director of LSE London, LSE.

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(Re)imagining synAthina for the 2020s
Tuesday 11 February 2020

Speaker: Amalia Zepou, former Vice Mayor for Civil Society and Innovation, Athens, and Bloomberg Visiting Fellow in Government Innovation, LSE Cities
Respondent: Geof Mulgan, Proefessor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, UCL

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Smarter London: the role of city government for a digital future
Tuesday 10 December 2019

Speaker: Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer, Mayor of London's Office
Respondent: Léan Doody, Associate Director & Europe Digital Property and Smart Cities Leader, Arup

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Making Connections for Climate Action: Urban transport and renewable energy

Thursday 14 November 2019

Speakers: Florian Bieberbach, Chief Executive Officer of Stadtwerke München;
Juliet Davenport, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good Energy
Respondents: Rasita Chudasama, Principal Transport Planner at Nottingham City Council; Keith Townsend, Corporate Director of Environment and Regeneration at Islington Council

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Led by Children: Designing an Inclusive City
Wednesday 18 September 2019

Speaker: Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania

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Athens' Grassroots Regeneration: Reflections from Mayor Georgios Kamini
Tuesday 02 April 2019

Speaker: Georgios Kaminis, Mayor of Athens, Greece

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Contradictions in Contemporary Urbanisation: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula
Monday 11 March 2019

Speakers: Harvey Molotch, Davide Ponzini

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