PROGRAMME14-15 JULY 2016

‘Shape’ is both a noun and a verb. It implies a process and suggests a product: a form. In urban terms, it succinctly captures the act of making cities – the politics, the negotiation, the process of design – and an artefact – the plan, the project, the constructed reality.

The Urban Age conference provides a platform for designers and policy-makers to better understand how their decisions shape the cities we live in and to reflect on the way our urban environments shape the social dynamics of a 21st century urban reality, where over 70% of us will be urban by 2050.

In Venice, the Urban Age has invited over 40 speakers from 25 cities in Asia, Africa, Europe, South and North America to debate some of the most pressing problems of the 21st century: How are cities shaped? By whom and for whom? How are the conflicts of our increasingly urban age – inequality, climate change, urban growth and expansion, informality, democratic rep-resentation and urban stewardship – experienced and lived by the majority of urban dwellers? And, what can we do to make cities more tolerant, adapt-able and sustainable?

Amongst the speakers are some of the key protagonists of the Biennale exhibition – architects Alejandro Aravena, Rahul Mehrotra and Kunlé Adeyemi. Together, they investigate how aesthetics can be integrated with social purpose and how design creativity can be put at the service of our most basic human needs, questioning the limits of the design profession in addressing social challenges. Others will present a range of local initiatives and large-scale projects – from self-build houses in Cape Town and small public spaces in Mexico City to centrally-funded new towns in Asia and developer-led projects in Latin America – to explore where design can be most effective in shaping the way we live in cities.

But the conference also addresses broader questions of rights, ownership, diversity, governance and planning. Mayors and urban leaders will describe the specific issues that shape their own political decisions: infrastructure challenges and quality of life in Kampala, urban expansion and informal development in Bogotá, structural inequality and the environment in Paris, jobs and regeneration in Venice and its waterfront in Marghera, health and social inclusion in Safed, Israel, and citizenship and rights in Barcelona.

Ada Colau, the recently elected mayor of Barcelona, has placed the entire question of ‘who owns the city’ on the political map by resisting evictions, restructuring services and challenging market forces to enhance the live-ability of the city for its residents. This experience is set against research into global patterns of property ownership and land acquisitions – by Saskia Sas-sen and others – and their negative effects on the texture, scale and character of urban neighbourhoods, productivity and social inclusion.

While rates of urbanisation differ widely across different regions of the world, there are pervasive patterns that characterise the shape of cities in hotspots of urban growth in Africa, Asia and, to a degree, Latin America. New research for Habitat III shows that the population of 186 cities has more than doubled, but their footprints have increased almost five-fold in just 25 years. Density has dropped and open space has reduced – the physical shape of cities is placing people increasingly far from one another. In Africa and Asia, where 90% of future growth will take place, most urban development remains poorly regulated or unplanned.

To counter this socially divisive and environmentally corrosive trend, Habitat III’s Zero Draft of the New Urban Agenda argues strongly for a commitment to develop ‘urban planning and design instruments … that promote efficient use of land … to trigger economies of scale and agglom-eration, and enhance resource efficiency.’ Others will argue that such an approach distorts the market and bypasses the democratic voice of local communities, imposing predetermined solutions from above rather than engaging with the critical actors that represent the city from below.

Ultimately, the debate about who shapes the city of the future, either through Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda or through the actions of indi-vidual cities or citizens, remains a question of democratic rights, justice and representation. As AbdouMaliq Simone has put it ‘when we talk about inhabitants and the rights appropriate to them, there is a large amount of ambiguity as to who we are talking to … and what kinds of senses are at work to perceive what is equitable or not’.

For the Urban Age, the spatial dimension in this equation is equally critical. Richard Sennett’s critique of the 1930s Charter of Athens – which has literally shaped and constrained so much of the contemporary urban world – suggests a form of incremental urbanism based on ‘open and porous’ cities that adapt to change and accommodate difference over time.

By bringing together these diverse voices and perspectives at the Venice Biennale, the Urban Age hopes to provoke a discussion, establish a dialogue and help shape the agenda of the future of cities that reconnects the physical to the social.

THE URBAN AGE SHAPING CITIESThe Urban Age explores the connection between the physical and the social world of cities. Through research, publications and outreach it applies an interdisciplinary lens to the interconnected themes of urban form, gover-nance, the environment, the economy and social inequality in cities. Urban Age research on the dynamics of global cities is an authoritative source of comparative data and analysis, and much of it is now available online at urbanage.lsecities.net.

After 14 conferences held in major urban regions of the world, the 2016 Urban Age ‘Shaping Cities’ conference takes place in Venice.

There are two reasons for this. The first is the alignment between the aspirations of the Urban Age and the content of Alejandro Aravena’s exhibition ‘Reporting from the Front’ for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, which highlights how design ingenuity can respond effectively to scarcity, insecurity and deprivation. Hosted every two years by La Bien-nale di Venezia, this premier global cultural event acts as a platform for re-thinking the discipline of architecture as an artistic and professional practice.

The second is the United Nations Habitat III conference which takes place in Quito in October 2016. Held every 20 years, UN-Habitat sets an agenda for international organisations and national governments, shaping policy on the social, political and environmental future of human settle-ments. This year, its focus is on sustainable cities and the formulation of a New Urban Agenda. Driven by UN-Habitat director, former city mayor Joan Clos, it will make a strong commitment to planning and spatial design as a critical component in making cities more inclusive, productive and green.

Taken together, these events provide a unique platform of collaboration for the Urban Age, jointly organised by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, to bring to Venice a research project dedicated to bridging design and politics in cities.

We have responded enthusiastically to La Biennale di Venezia’s invitation to contribute a Special Project for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition with a conference and an exhibition. We wish to thank La Biennale di Venezia for hosting the ‘Conflicts of an Urban Age’ exhibition in the Sale d’Armi in the Arsenale and for the magnificent 16th century Teatro alle Tese for the Urban Age ‘Shaping Cities’ conference.

Ricky Burdett, LSE CitiesThomas Matussek, Alfred Herrhausen GesellschaftPhilipp Rode, LSE CitiesUte Weiland, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

THURSDAY 14 JULY 2016 10.30 – 10.45 WELCOME

Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of VenicePaolo Baratta, President, La Biennale di VeneziaPaul Achleitner, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

10.45 – 11.00 OVERVIEW

CONFLICTS OF AN URBAN AGERicky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

11.00 – 12.45 WHO OWNS THE CITY?

Co-chairs: Judit Carrera, Director, the European Prize for Urban Public Space at the CCCB, Barcelona and Tony Travers, Director, LSE London

Keynote (15 min)

DEMOCRATIC REGENERATION AND CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona

Presentations (15 min each)

GLOBAL CAPITAL AND URBAN LAND Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

REINVENTING PARIS: A STRATEGY FOR INCLUSION Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris

Panel discussion Ed Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Anaclaudia Rossbach, Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cities Alliance; Yolande Barnes, Head of World Research, Savills Real Estate, London

12.45 – 14.00 LUNCH BREAK

14.00 – 15.30 EXPANSION OR REDEVELOPMENT?

Co-chairs: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Anaclaudia Rossbach, Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cities Alliance

Keynote (15 min)

THE CASE FOR PLANNING Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat

Presentations (10 min each)

THE EFFICIENCIES OF DENSITY Mark Swilling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University

MAKING ROOM FOR URBAN EXPANSION Shlomo Angel, Head of Urban Expansion Program, New York University

Panel discussion

Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá; Jennifer Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority; Serge Salat, President, Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris

15.30 – 16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00 – 17.45 ADAPTATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION

Co-chairs: Tessa Jowell, Professor in Practice, LSE; former UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Jose Castillo, Principal, a911, Mexico City

Presentations (10 min each) and responses (5 min each)

THE OPEN CITY Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and New York University

Respondent: Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris

MIGRANT STREETS Suzanne Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Senior Research Associate, LSE Cities, LSE

Respondent: Caroline Kihato, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand

FERAL URBANISM AbdouMaliq Simone, Research Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen

Respondent: Rahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai; Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Open discussion

17.45 END OF DAY ONE

FRIDAY 15 JULY 2016 10.30 – 11.45 URBAN SOLUTIONS: WHAT ROLE FOR ARCHITECTURE?

Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age and Jo Coenen, Director, IBA Parkstad; former Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands

Presentations (15 min each)

REPORTING FROM THE FRONT Alejandro Aravena, Director, 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; Co-Founder, Elemental, Santiago, Chile

THE LIMITS OF URBAN DESIGN Rahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai; Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

THE SOCIAL POTENTIAL OF ARCHITECTURE Kunlé Adeyemi, Founder and Principal, NLÉ, Lagos; Silver Lion Winner, 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Panel discussion

11.45 – 13.15 SCALES OF INTERVENTION 1: SOLUTIONS FROM BELOW

Co-chairs: Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India

Presentations (5 min each)

INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY Julia King, Architectural Designer and Urban Researcher, Delhi and London; Rozana Montiel, Founder and Principal, Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura, Mexico City; Ilan Shohat, Mayor of Safed, Israel

HOUSING AND REGENERATION Jo Noero, Founder and Principal, Noero Architects; Professor of Architecture, University of Cape Town; Amica Dall, Director, Assemble Architects, London

MIGRATION AND REFUGE Max Schwitalla, Founder, Studio Schwitalla, Berlin; Sean Anderson, Curator, Insecurities Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York

13.15 – 14.15 LUNCH BREAK

14.15 – 15.45 SCALES OF INTERVENTION 2: SOLUTIONS FROM ABOVE

Co-chairs: Andy Altman, Managing Principal, Fivesquares Development, Washington, D.C.; former Chief Executive, Olympic Park Legacy Company and Sue Parnell, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Cape Town

Presentations (10 min each)

INFRASTRUCTURE AND GROWTH Ed Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University

CENTRALISATION AND URBANISATION IN EAST ASIA Kees Christiaanse, Founder KCAP, Rotterdam; Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich and Singapore

CONFLICTS OF LATIN AMERICAN CITIES Jose Castillo, Principal, a911, Mexico City

ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CITY-WIDE APPROACH Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands

RECLAIMING URBAN WATERFRONTS: LESSONS FOR ITALIAN CITIES Stefano Recalcati, Associate, Arup; Curator, Special Project, Reporting from Marghera and Other Waterfronts, La Biennale di Venezia

Open discussion

15.45 – 16.15 COFFEE BREAK

16.15 – 17.45 SHAPING THE NEW URBAN AGENDA

Co-chairs: Julia Black, Interim Director, LSE (from 1 September 2016), and Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Presentations (10 min each)

CHALLENGES OF EXPANSION Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá

SHAPING KAMPALA Jennifer Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority

Panel discussion Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India

Ilaria Boniburini, Post-Doctoral Fellow, South Africa Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand

Sue Parnell, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Cape Town

Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

Open discussion

17.45 – 18.00 CLOSING REMARKS

Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat

Paolo Baratta, President, La Biennale di Venezia

Ute Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

18.00 END OF CONFERENCE

PROGRAMMELocation: Teatro alle Tese, Arsenale

Paul Achleitner Chairman, Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Paul Achleitner studied at the University of St. Gallen where he completed his PhD as well as at Harvard Business School. After various assignments in the Strategy Consulting of Bain & Co. and positions at Goldman Sachs, he became head of finance at Allianz SE between 2000 and 2012. In May 2012, he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG. He is also a member of the Supervisory Boards of Bayer AG and Daimler AG.

Kunlé Adeyemi Founder and Principal, NLÉ, Lagos; Silver Lion Winner, La Biennale di Venezia Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect,

urbanist and Founder of NLÉ – an architecture, design and urbanism practice focused on developing cities and communities. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, New York. NLÉ was awarded the Silver Lion at the 15th International Architecture Biennale, Venice for WATERFRONT Atlas – MFS II. 

Andrew Altman Managing Principal, Fivesquares Development, Washington, D.C.; former Chief Executive, Olympic Park Legacy Company

Andrew Altman is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Office of the Centennial Scholar and the Managing Principal at Fivesquares Development, a real estate development company based in Washington D.C. He has led large-scale urban regeneration projects as the first Chief Executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company in London, the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Planning for the city of Philadelphia, and as the Director of Planning in Washington, D.C.

Sean Anderson Curator, Insecurities Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of

Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He oversees MoMA’s Issues in Contemporary Architecture exhibition series, assists in curatorial supervision of the Young Architects Program (YAP), and serves as the primary liaison to architecture communities in New York as well as globally. He is the curator of the exhibition, ‘Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter’ opening in October 2016.

Shlomo Angel Head of Urban Expansion Program, New York University Shlomo (Solly) Angel is a Professor of City Planning and

the Director of the NYU Urban Expansion Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and the Stern School of Business of New York University. The Programme assists rapidly growing cities in less developed countries in making minimal preparations for their inevitable expansion and monitors urban expansion with a global sample of cities. He is the author, most recently of Planet of Cities.

Alejandro Aravena Director, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia; Co-founder, ELEMENTAL, Santiago, Chile

Alejandro Aravena is a Chilean architect working at ELEMENTAL, a Do Tank that focuses on projects of public interest and social impact, including housing, public space, infrastructure, and transportation. Aravena is the Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 2016, and he is the Director of 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2016).

Paolo Baratta President, La Biennale di Venezia Paolo Baratta is the President of La Biennale di Venezia. He graduated in Engineering from

the Politecnico di Milano and studied Economics at Cambridge University. He is the author of several studies on development economics. Baratta has been a member of the board and held executive positions in major banking, telecommunications and state investment companies. He was Secretary of State of the Italian Government for a number of portfolios including Foreign Trade, Public Works and the Environment.

Yolande Barnes Head of World Research, Savills Real Estate, London Yolande Barnes is Head of Savills World Research. She writes

regularly for research publications, national and international newspapers on a variety of property-related topics and regularly appears on television and radio in the UK.

Julia Black Interim Director, LSE (from 1 September 2016) Julia Black FBA has advised a number of governmental and

consumer bodies in the UK and overseas, including the OECD, the National Audit Office, the environment agencies of the UK and Ireland. She is also General Editor of the Modern Law Review and on the editorial boards of Law and Policy, Regulation and Governance and the Journal of Financial Regulation. She is Interim Director of the London School of Economics (from 1 September 2016).

Ilaria Boniburini Post-Doctoral Fellow, South Africa Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand

Ilaria Boniburini is an architect registered in the UK and a scholar with trans-disciplinary experience in the fields of public spaces and the right to the city and has more than ten years of experience on African urbanism. After working as Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture at the University of Rwanda, she joined the University of the Witwatersrand as a post-doc fellow in Spatial Analysis and City Planning.

Luigi Brugnaro Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro was elected Mayor of Venice in June 2015. Trained as an architect at

University of Venice (IUAV), he is the founder of Umana Holding, an organisation that operates internationally in the service, manufacturing, building, sports and agricultural sectors. He was President of the regional business association Confindustria Venezia and a member of the national board of Confindustria. In addition to his political and business activities, Brugnaro is President of first division professional basketball team Reyer Venezia.

Ricky Burdett Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, London Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London

School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics and architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. He was Director of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2006 and is curator of the ‘Conflicts of an Urban Age’ exhibition, a Special Project of the 2016 Venice Biennale.

Judit Carrera Director of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB)

Judit Carrera is director of the European Prize for Urban Public Space at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), where she is also head of the Public Debates Programme. She previously worked at the Analysis and Forecasting Office of UNESCO in Paris and in the International Relations Department of the Barcelona City Council. She is a regular contributor to the newspapers El País and ARA.

Jose Castillo Principal, a911, Mexico City Jose Castillo is a practicing architect in Mexico City and a visiting professor at Harvard

University’s Graduate School of Design. Alongside Saidee Springall he founded a911, an independent practice based in Mexico City. Their work includes award-winning social housing projects, cultural facilities, infrastructure and large-scale masterplans, and they are winners of the 2014 Audi Urban Futures Award. Castillo is member of the advisory board of LSE Cities and Urban Age.

Kees Christiaanse Founder KCAP, Rotterdam; Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich and Singapore Kees Christiaanse is a founding

partner of KCAP and worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam from 1980-1989, becoming a partner in 1983. In 1989 he founded his own office in Rotterdam, which expanded to Zurich and Shanghai. He is professor at the ETH in Zurich (CH) and is Programme Leader of the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore.

Joan Clos Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme Joan Clos is Executive Director of the United Nations Human

Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations. Prior to this he served two terms as Mayor of Barcelona (1997-2006); was the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade of Spain (2006-2008); and acted as the Spanish ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan before joining the UN in 2010. He is also currently serving as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), taking place in Quito from 17-20 October this year.

Jo Coenen Director, IBA Parkstad; former Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands Jo Coenen started his own

architecture practice in Eindhoven and later in Maastricht, Berlin, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Milan and Bern. In the period from 2000 to 2004, he was Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands. From 2013-2020 he is curator of IBA Parkstad, a laboratory for innovative projects for the development of the Parkstad region in the south of the Netherlands.

Ada Colau Mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau has worked as a researcher and human rights activist for many years,

specialising in the fields of housing and the right to the city. Her professional and political experience over the past two decades includes both academic study, as well as engagement with a wide range of civil society organisations and social movements. In June 2015, she won the municipal elections of Barcelona with the citizens’ platform Barcelona en Comú.

Ivo Daalder President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ivo Daalder has served as President of the Chicago Council

on Global Affairs since 2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of NATO from May 2009 to July 2013. He was also a member of the staff of United States National Security Council during the administration of President Bill Clinton and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.

Amica Dall Director, Assemble, London Amica Dall is part of Assemble, a democratically run architecture, art and design practice whose

work spans architecture and urban design, public art, research, community organisation and construction. Assemble’s projects are united by an ambition to make cities more humane, diverse and joyful places to live. Assemble champion a working practice that is interdependent and collaborative, seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and accomplice in the on-going realisation of their work.

Ed Glaeser Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Edward Glaeser is the Fred and

Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He teaches microeconomics theory, and urban and public economics. He served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. His work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission.

Suzanne Hall Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Senior Research Associate, LSE Cities, LSE Suzanne Hall is an Assistant

Professor and Senior Research Associate at LSE. Her work engages with the formations of global migration, urbanisation and multi-culture. From 1997-2003 her practice explored the role of design in racially and economically marginalised areas in Cape Town. Suzanne is recipient of the Rome Scholarship in Architecture, the LSE’s Robert McKenzie Prize, and an ESRC Future Research Leaders award. Her book, City, Street and Citizen, was published in 2012.

Tessa Jowell Professor in Practice, LSE; former UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, London Baroness Tessa Jowell is a former

MP and UK Government Secretary of State. She was Minister for the Olympics from 2005-2010 and Secretary of state for Culture Media and Sport from 2001-2007. In 2014, she was appointed Professor of Practice working with LSE Cities and the Department of Government on a range of academic and innovative outreach initiatives. She is also a Senior Menschel Fellow at Harvard.

Caroline Kihato Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand Caroline Kihato is involved in

teaching and conducting research on migration, gender, governance and urbanisation in the Global South. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand and teaches at the University of Johannesburg. She was previously Urban LandMark’s southern African programme coordinator and a Policy Analyst at the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Julia King Architectural Designer and Urban Researcher, Delhi and London Julia King is an architectural designer and urban researcher

based out of LSE Cities. Her work is concerned with housing, sanitation infrastructure, urban planning, and participatory design processes mostly in developing countries. She has won numerous awards including a Holcim Award, SEED Award for ‘Excellence in Public Interest Design’, and Emerging Woman Architect of the Year (2014). She has lectured extensively and taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Architectural Association amongst others.

Rahul Mehrotra Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai; Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Rahul Mehrotra is principal of architecture firm RMA Architects of Mumbai, India and is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He has written and lectured extensively on issues to do with architecture, conservation, and urban planning in Mumbai and India.

Jean-Louis Missika Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of urbanism, architecture, projects of Greater Paris, economic development and attractiveness

Jean-Louis Missika is Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of urbanism, architecture, projects of Greater Paris, economic development and attractiveness, and was co-director of Anne Hidalgo’s team when she was elected Mayor in the 2014 Paris municipal elections. He is also a sociologist specialising in media sociology and has continued teaching alongside his career in politics and consultancy. His political career began in 2008 when he was elected councillor of Paris and was appointed Deputy Mayor by Bertrand Delanoë.

Rozana Montiel Founder and Principal, Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura, Mexico City Rozana Montiel is the founder of

the Mexico-based architectural firm Rozana Montiel / Estudio de Arquitectura specialising in design, social architecture and urban development. She was awarded the Sustainable Construction Holcim Foundation Grant, the Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices recognition, and the Schelling Architecture Foundation prize-nomination for 2016. Her field of research is housing, public space and mobility in cities. She presented at this year’s Venice Biennale on the “Walk the Line” project.

Jennifer Musisi Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority Jennifer Musisi is a lawyer, advocate of the High Court of

Uganda and experienced administrator with a legal, administrative and leadership background. She trained at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda as well as numerous other institutions including the George Washington University, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority in Uganda.

Jo Noero Founder and Principal, Noero Architects; Professor of Architecture, University of Cape Town

Jo Noero is a South African architect who has completed over 200 buildings. Noero was appointed Director of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town from 2000-2005. He held the position of Professor of Architecture at UCT from 2000-2014 and became Emeritus Professor in 2015.

Henk Ovink Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands Henk Ovink is the first Special

Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is the Principal of ‘Rebuild by Design’. He was Senior Advisor to the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Ovink was both Acting Director General of Spatial Planning and Water Affairs and Director of National Spatial Planning for the Netherlands. Ovink was Curator for the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2012 ‘Making City’.

Sue Parnell Professor of Urban Geography, University of Cape Town Sue Parnell is an urban geographer in the Department of

Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town and is on the Executive of the African Centre for Cities. She has held previous academic positions at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of London (SOAS) and visiting research fellowships from the LSE, Oxford University, Durham University, the British Academy and was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University College London.

Enrique Peñalosa Mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa was mayor of Bogotá from 1998 until 2001 and was re-elected in 2015. He is an

international urban strategy consultant and a Colombian political leader. As Mayor of Bogotá, Peñalosa was credited with improvements in equity, sustainable mobility, and quality of life. He was the President of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) from 2009 to 2015.

Stefano Recalcati Associate, Arup; Curator, Special Project, Reporting from Marghera and Other Waterfronts, La Biennale di Venezia

Stefano Recalcati is an architect and has a PhD in Architectural Composition, is associate at Arup Italia, where he leads masterplanning and urban design activities for the Europe region. Before joining Arup, he worked with Ricky Burdett on the General Development Plans in Genoa and Parma and on the Milan Expo 2015 masterplan. He is adjunct professor in urban planning at the Politecnico di Milano. At the 2016 Architecture Biennale he is the curator of the Special Project on waterfront regenerations.

Philipp Rode Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and

Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. As researcher and consultant he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design since 2003. The focus of his current work is on institutional capacities of cities which includes co-leading the Habitat III Policy Unit on ‘Urban Governance, Capacity and Institutional Development’.

Anaclaudia Rossbach Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cities Alliance Anaclaudia Rossbach is the

Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Cities Alliance. She has provided long-term support to the Brazilian Ministry of Cities on policy design, planning and implementation and worked as a consultant for the World Bank dealing with subsidies, housing finance and urban. She also founded the Brazilian affiliate of the NGO Slum Dwellers International and worked for the Housing Department of the city of São Paulo after initiating her career in the private sector.

Serge Salat President, Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris Serge Salat is a practicing architect, urban planner and

designer. He is President of the Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris and also advises leading international institutions in the field of urban planning and urban policy, including the United Nations, World Bank, IPCC, CDC and AFD. He is the author of two major books on urban morphology and is recognised as a leading expert in the field of urban morphology, urban policy and complexity science.

Saskia Sassen Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at

Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her research and writing focuses on immigration, global cities, new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. Her most recent book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014). She has received multiple honours, most recently the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences.

Max Schwitalla Founder, Studio Schwitalla, Berlin Max Schwitalla is an architect who founded Studio Schwitalla in Berlin 2012 after working with

OMA, Graft and HENN Architects. The experimental work of the studio is at the intersection of architecture and urban design focused on neighbourhoods as three-dimensional structures and the future of urban mobility. The driving force is the re-negotiation of spaces for mobility and immobility to generate transformable urban environments – centred on human needs, not those of mobility machines.

Richard Sennett Professor of Sociology, LSE and New York University Richard Sennett writes about cities and about labour. He is

Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University. He is currently completing a trilogy of books about craftsmanship, the third volume of which, Making and Dwelling, is about the craft of urban design. At LSE Cities, he advises UN-Habitat about the Habitat III the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development.

Jagan Shah Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India Jagan Shah has over 20 years of professional experience in urban

development. He has served as the Director of Sushant School of Architecture, Gurgaon and taught at the School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) from 1998 till 2006. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Chief Executive of Urban Space Consultants. At NIUA, he leads the work on Smart Cities and provides guidance to all projects, including urban resilience, heritage revitalisation and decentralised waste management. 

Ilan Shohat Mayor of Safed, Israel Ilan Shohat has served as the mayor of the city of Safed for the past eight years and is the

youngest mayor presiding in Israel. Shohat has developed a far-reaching vision that marries Safed’s religious heritage with the city’s innovative scientific infrastructures. In 2015, Shohat was elected to the Knesset, but chose not to take his seat, instead remaining mayor of Safed.

AbdouMaliq Simone Urbanist and Research Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity AbdouMaliq Simone is an

urbanist and research professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He is also visiting professor of sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London; visiting professor at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; research associate with the Rujak Center for Urban Studies in Jakarta; and research fellow at the University of Tarumanagara.

Mark Swilling Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University Mark Swilling is Distinguished

Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute and Co-Director of the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition – a centre for the transdisciplinary study of sustainability and complexity at Stellenbosch University. He co-authored with Eve Annecke Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World (Tokyo: United Nations University Press 2012) and is a member of UNEP’s International Resource Panel.

Tony Travers Director, LSE London Tony Travers is director of LSE London at the London School of Economics and a professor in the

School’s Government Department. Research interests include public finance, sub-national administration and London government. In 2013, he chaired the London Finance Commission (initiated by the Mayor of London) and is currently an advisor to committees of the UK Parliament. In 2004 he published The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City and, last year, London’s Boroughs at 50.

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administrative city (millions)

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in the urban agglomeration

(millions)

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built up area (people/km2)

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urban agglomeration to 2030 (people

per hour)

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($, PPP)

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produced by the urban area

COMPARING CITIES

57,157

36,259

24,867

69,915

19,239

14,176

20,650

16,370

7,005

12,747

57,244

24,065

12.3

5.0

14.2

18.6

20.8

12.8

20.8

9.2

20.7

25.0

7.3

23.0

8.5

3.4

14.2

8.5

8.9

6.5

11.9

4.4

12.5

16.3

7.3

24.2

1,595

891

5,469

787

1,483

1,225

1,523

1,643

479

1,465

1,098

6,249

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4.3

23.9

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5.4

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3.0

6.8

6,456

4,211

10,582

11,531

9,406

11,001

12,656

2,744

34,656

19,698

14,471

6,706

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82.5

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trips made by public transport

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made by walking and

cycling

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inhabitants)

CO2 Emissions (tonnes per

capita)

City Income inequality

(GINI Index) UN international

alert level: 0.40

Voter turnout in the last local

elections (%)

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Annual mean PM10 levels

(ug/m3) WHO guideline

level: 20 μg/m3

Average life expectancy

(years)

303

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215

294

310

465

181

64

140

68

69

24.5

16.7

31.3

24.4

34.6

26.7

29.5

30.3

30.9

37.1

17.6

16.0

32.4

43.5

48.1

11.4

31.0

31.8

28.7

27.6

33.0

32.0

11.6

39.7

4.8

5.7

3.3

5.5

2.8

3.5

1.4

6.4

1.0

1.1

6.0

9.7

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286

45

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Mazda Adli, Head Physician, Fliedner Klinik

Angela Airoldi, Senior Researcher, MAKNO srl

Sarah Alfraih, Architectural Design Tutor and Senior Researcher, Kuwait University College of Architecture

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Andrew Altman, Managing Principal, Fivesquares Development

Hillary Altman, Architect

Sean Anderson, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Maria-Beatrice, Andreucci Adjunct Professor of Environmental Technological, Design Faculty of Architecture, Università di Roma La Sapienza

Shlomo Angel, Head of Urban Expansion Program, New York University

Brunella Angeli, Architect and Journalist

Valentina Antoniucci, Fellow and Researcher, Università degli Studi di Padova

Alejandro Aravena, Co-Founder, ELEMENTAL; Director, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

Camilla Ariani, PhD Candidate, Università di Roma La Sapienza

Andrea Aricò, Lawyer

James Arteaga, Intern, Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) City Space Architecture

Thomas Asher, Programme Director, Social Science Research Council

Mark Atkinson, Markets Development Officer, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Vanessa Avila, International Atomic Energy Agency

Nurul Azlan, PhD Researcher, TU Delft

Justyna Baber, Intelligence Specialist, Inter IKEA Systems B.V.

Annamaria Bagaini, PhD Candidate Sapienza, Università di Roma

Dominick Bagnato, Manager, Theatrum Mundi, New York University

Marcello Balbo, Professor, Università IUAV di Venezia

Stephan Balzer, Founder and Managing Director, Red Onion

Paolo Baratta, President, La Biennale di Venezia

Gloriana Barboza Garcia, Architect; Masters Student Urban Planning and Policy Design, Politecnico di Milano

Yolande Barnes, Head of World Research, Savills Real Estate

Sigal Barnir, Head of the Urban Tactic Unit, Urban Design Master Program, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Philippa Barr, Producer, ASX; Correspondent, Domus Magazine; PhD Candidate, Macquarie University

Nitin Bathla, Architect

Isabella Bayer, Exhibition Manager, EXPO REAL Messe München GmbH

Maximilian Becker, Architect, TU Berlin

Roland Berger, Founder and Honorary Chairman, Roland Berger

Meryem Berker, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Alberto Bernstein, Founder, A.Bernstein Consultant

Homi Bhabha, Professor, Harvard University

Irene Bianchi, PhD Candidate, Politecnico di Milano

Ariane Bieou, Project Manager, IN SITU - Lieux publics

Naluwembe Binaisa, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

John Bingham Hall, Researcher, Theatrum Mundi, LSE Cities

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Christine Blaas, PhD Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia

Julia Black, Interim Director, LSE (from September 2016)

Harry Blain, Graduate Intern, LSE Cities

Nevil Blay Kwaku Sarfo, Programme Co-ordinator, Student and Youth Foundation

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Professor, Sorbonne Université, Paris

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Aron Bohmann, Researcher, LSE Cities

Sylvine Bois-Choussy, Coordinator, European Network of Cultural Centers

Ilaria Boniburini, Post-Doctoral Fellow, South Africa Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand

Matthias Böttger, Director, Raumtaktik; Professor, Kunstuni Linz

Luisa Bravo, President, City Space Architecture

Andra Bria, Founder, Smart City and Living

Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of Venice

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Lucy Bullivant, Author and Curator; Director Urbanista

Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

Laura Burocco, Researcher, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Lindsay Bush, Architect, urbanXchanger

Hugo Busse, Architect and Designer, A T - Hugo Holger Busse

Antonio Calafati, Coordinator, International Doctoral Programme in Urban Studies and Professor of Urban Studies Gran Sasso Science Institute, Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio

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Fabio Capra, PhD Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia

Alexander Carius, Managing Director, Adelphi

Aitor Hernandez Carr, Deputy Director Mayor’s office, Barcelona City Council

Judit Carrera, Director, European Prize for Urban Public Space, Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB)

Alessia Caruso, Architect; Phd candidate, Università di Roma La Sapienza

Tina Cassidy, Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer InkHouse Media +Marketing

Jose Castillo, Principal a911, Mexico City

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Simon Chinn, Senior Analyst, Grosvenor

Stella Chiu, MPhil Student, University of Cambridge

Kees Christiaanse, Founder, KCAP

Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN Habitat

Jo Coenen, Director, IBA Parkstad

Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona

Simona Colucci, Project Manager, Aste&Nodi

Mirco Conte, Masters Student, King’s College London

Georgia Cottington, Spatial Designer

Maria Cristiana Costanzo, Head of Press and Media Relations, Visual Arts and Architecture, la Biennale di Venezia

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Alejandro Czerevin, Architect and Designer, Architecture office

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Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Maddalena d’Alfonso, Independent Curator

Amica Dall, Director, Assemble

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Filiep Decorte, Deputy Director, New York Liaison Office, UN-Habitat

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Xenofondas Dialeismas, Architect and Urban Designer; PhD Candidate National Technical University of Athens

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Branka Dimitrijevic, Professor of Architecture, University of Strathclyde

Kahina Amal Djiar, Head of Postgraduate Studies and Research, École polytechnique d’architecture et d’urbanisme, Algiers, Algeria

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Youjia Rao, PhD Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia

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Emanuela Recchi, President and Architect, Recchi Engineering

Sara Reimann, Research Assistant, Academy for Spatial Research and Planning

Guido Robazza, Architect; Senior Lecture, University of Portsmouth

Joshua Roberts, Assistant Professor, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong University

Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age

Marcos L. Rosa, Studio Director and Architect, MarcosLRosa; urbanXchanger

Claudia Roselli, Assistant Professor, Unifi

Anaclaudia Rossbach, Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean Cities Alliance

Isabella Rossen, Junior Public Affairs Officer, Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Rick Rubens, Psychoanalyst, William Alanson White Institute

Rachel Salamander, Member of the Supervisory Board, Suhrkamp Verlag

Serge Salat, President. Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute

Eduardo Salzano, Director, eddyburg

Massimo Santaniccha, Architect; Director of Beyond Entropy, North Iceland Academy of the Arts

Francesc Santiago Camps, Press Director, Mayor’s office, Barcelona City Council

Federica Santoro, Researcher

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Helen Sasson, Emeritus Governor, LSE

Stephan Sattler, Editor at Large, Hubert Burda Media

Jonas Schorr, TU Berlin

Tobias Schrammek, Architect, TU Berlin

Christine Schreiber, CEO, Global Real Estate Group Ltd

Franziska Schreiber, Adelphi

Max Schwitalla, Founder, Studio Schwitalla

Ursula Schwitalla, Uni Tübingen

Demetrio Scopelliti, Architect, Arup

Giulia Scotto, Architect and Urban Planner, KCAP architects&planners, Zurich

Carla Sedini, PhD Candidate, Politecnico di Milano

Tine Segers, PhD Researcher, University of Hasselt

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and New York University

Jeongil Seo, Research Professor, Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University

Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs

Meera Shankar, Member of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Heather Shearer, Research Fellow, Griffith University

Ilan Shohat, Mayor of Safed

Ariel Simon, The Kresge Foundation

AbdouMaliq Simone, Urbanist and Research Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen

Albert Speer, Managing Partner, AS&P Architects

Saidee Springall, Principal, a911, Mexico City

Sathyanarayanan Srinivasan, Architect; Professor SRM School of Environment, Architecture and Design, SRM University Ramapuram, Chennai

Alexander Ståhle, Researcher, KTH School of Architecture

Cecilia Stefinlongo, Teaching Coordinator, Liceo Classico Europeo

Bernhard Steinrücke, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce

Sophie Stigliano, Director, Urban Standards GmbH

Lars Stordal, Special Assistant to the Executive Director, UN Habitat

Mark Swilling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University

Gianni Talamini, Architect; Post Doctoral Fellow, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School

James Taylor-Foster, European Editor at Large, ArchDaily; Co-Curator, 2016 Nordic Pavilion (15th La Biennale di Venezia)

Alessandra Terenzi, Adjunct Professor, Politecnico of Milano

Clara Terradellas, Architect and Urban Planner, A+

Matilde Tessari, Journalist; Architect, ArchitettiVerona

Giulia Testori, PhD Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia

Laura Tettamanzi, Professor, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera / Public Universty of art in Milan

Christiane Timmerhaus, Project Manager, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Marco Todarello, Journalist; Videomaker, Idealista

Andrew Todd, Architect, Studio Andrew Todd

Giulia Torino, PhD researcher, University of Cambridge

Maria Chiara Tosi, Università IUAV di Venezia

Tony Travers, Director, LSE London

Hitoha Tsuda, Research Analyst, Property Market Analysis

Rebecca Tudehope, Architectural Assistant, Make Architects

Margherita Turvani, Professor, Università IUAV di Venezia

Dusana Valecich, Architect, ARTEMA studio tecnico associato

Esmerelda Valente, Director Staff, Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries, Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism

Panagiota Valtoudi, PhD Candidate, Architecture University of Cyprus

Wilco van Bemmel, Senior Project Manager, Walas Concepts

Maurits van der Staay, Architect and Author

Cyril Veillon, Director, Archizoom EPFL

Violeta Vilas Boas, PhD Candidate, Università IUAV di Venezia

Jochen Visscher, Publisher, JOVIS Publisher

Hilmar von Lojewski, Councillor, German Association of Cities

Anna Vondracek, Coordinator, Policy Department BOZAR, Brussels

Daniela Voss, Architect, ETH Zurich

Remi Wacogne, PhD Candidate; Research Assistant, Università IUAV di Venezia

Guido Walraven, Professor of Urban Studies, Inholland University of Applied Sciences

Thaisa Way, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Director, Urban@UW, University of Washington

Amélie Wedhorn, Project Manager, Urban Standards GmbH

Robert Weiland, Artist

Ute Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Eva Wendel, Partner, Neue Gestaltung

Timmy Whitehouse, Sustainable Design Consultant, Ecostudio XV

Barbara Wilks, Founder, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, LLC

Gillian Winbourn, Student, University of Edinburgh

Jana Wisniewski, Editor, e-motionArtspace INTERNTKUNSTZEITSCHRIFT

Solene Wolff, Co-Founder; Managing Partner, PLANE-SITE

Juan Lucas Young, Sauerbruch Hutton

Jaggi Yvette, Economist

Mostafa Zaafari, Managing Director, Center of Contemporary Urbanity

Sepideh Zaafari, Landscape Designer, Head of Urban Energy Department, Center of Contemporary Urbanity

Hassan Zaiter, PhD Candidate, Università di Roma La Sapienza

Giorgia Zangrando, PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia

Marcin Żebrowski, Spatial Planning Student, European Geography Association for students and young geographers

Qinyi Zhang, PhD Candidate, Urbanism, Università IUAV di Venezia

Piero Zucchi, Owner, Gri e Zucchi Architetti, e-motion Artspace INTERNTKUNSTZEITSCHRIFT

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INSTITUTIONS

URBAN AGEThe Urban Age programme, jointly organised with and supported by the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, the international forum of Deutsche Bank, is an international investigation of the spatial and social dynamics of cities. The programme centres on an annual conference, research initiatives and publications. Since 2005, 14 conferences have been held in rapidly urbanising regions in Africa and Asia, as well as in mature urban regions in the Americas and Europe. urbanage.lsecities.net

ORGANISED BYLSE Cities LSE Cities is an international centre at the Lon-don School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, conferences, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Extending LSE’s century-old commitment to the understand-ing of urban society, LSE Cities investigates how complex urban systems are responding to the pressures of growth, change and globalisa-tion with new infrastructures of design and governance that both complement and threaten social and environmental equity. lsecities.net @LSECities

ALFRED HERRHAUSEN GESELLSCHAFT, THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF DEUTSCHE BANK The non-profit Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft is the international forum of Deutsche Bank. Its work focuses on new forms of governance as a response to the challenges of the twenty-first century. The Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft seeks traces of the future in the present, and conceptualises relevant themes for analysis and debate. It works with international partners across a range of fields, including policy, academia and business, to organise forums for discussion worldwide. It forges international networks and builds temporary institutions to help to find better solutions to global challenges. It targets future decision-makers, but also attempts to make its work accessible to a wide public audience. The society is dedicated to the work of Alfred Herrhausen, former spokesman of the Deutsche Bank board of directors, who advocated the idea of corporate social responsibility in an exemplary manner until his assassination by terrorists in 1989. The Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft is an expression of Deutsche Bank’s worldwide commitment to civil society. alfred-herrhausen-gesellschaft.de @AHG_Berlin

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HOSTED BYLa Biennale di Venezia in the context of the Special Project “Report from Cities: Conflicts of an Urban Age”

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Manuela Lucà Dazio, Executive Manager, Art and Architecture, La Biennale di Venezia

CREDITS

LSE CITIESExecutive GroupRicky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Suzanne Hall, Cities Programme Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science

Governing BoardPaul Kelly (Chair), Pro-Director and Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Thomas Matussek, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Philipp Rode, Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Executive Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science Ute Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft

Advisory BoardRichard Sennett (Chair), Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University David Adjaye, Principal Architect,  Adjaye Associates Alejandro Aravena, Executive Director, ELEMENTAL S.A. Amanda Burden, Principal, Urban Planning, Bloomberg Associates; Commissioner, New York City Department of City Planning (2001-2013) Jose Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911 SC Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat Job Cohen, Party leader from 2010-2012, Labour Party, The Netherlands; Mayor of Amsterdam 2001-2010 Marcelo Ebrard, President, United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities; Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012 Terry Hil, Chairman, Ove Arup Foundation Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor, City of Bogotá, 1998-2001 and 2015-current Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town Richard Rogers, Founder, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London Alejandro Zaera Polo, Director, Alejandro Zaera Polo Architects

StaffMuhammad Adeel, Research Officer Nicole Badstuber, Researcher Anitra Baliga, Researcher John Bingham-Hall, Researcher Harry Blain, Researcher Aron Bohmann, Researcher Ed Charlton, Mellon Fellow in Cities and the HumanitiesHélia Costa, Research Officer Emily Cruz, Outreach Manager Sarah Davis, Management Accounts Coordinator Mariana Spratley, Executive and Administrative Assistant Nuno Ferreira da Cruz, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow Graham Floater, Principal Research Fellow Peter Griffiths, Managing Editor Alexandra Gomes, Research Officer Catarina Heeckt, Projects Manager Laurence Horstman, Programme Administrator, Executive MSc in Cities Anna Livia Johnston, MSc Programme Manager, Cities Programme Tessa Jowell, Professor in Practice, LSE Adam Kaasa, Director Theatrum Mundi Julia King, Researcher Jenny McArthur, Researcher Tom Murray, Urban Age Outreach Assistant Ninad Pandit, Mellon Follow in Cities and the Humanities Elisabetta Pietrostefani, Projects Coordinator, Theatrum Mundi Andrea Rota, Web Developer and Operations Manager Andrew Sherwood, Centre Manager Savvas Verdis, Senior Research Fellow

ALFRED HERRHAUSEN GESELLSCHAFT, THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF DEUTSCHE BANKThomas Matussek, Managing Director Ute Weiland, Deputy Managing Director Claudia Huber, Senior Manager Programme and Strategy Sophia Pauen, Project Assistant Anja Paulus, Project Manager Julian Potthast, Project Assistant Freya Tebbenhoff, Assistant to Ute Weiland Christiane Timmerhaus, Project Manager Pia Zimmerman, Assistant to Thomas Matussek

CONFERENCE PROGRAMMERicky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities Ute Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft Peter Griffiths, Managing Editor, LSE Cities Harry Blain, Researcher, LSE Cities

CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICSEmily Cruz, Outreach Manager, LSE Cities Anja Paulus, Project Manager, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft Aron Bohmann, Researcher, LSE Cities Pieter Jurriaanse, Venue manager Tom Murray, Outreach Assistant, LSE Cities Ilaria Ruggiero, Venice Project Coordinator C3, Audio visual

BRANDING AND PRINT DESIGNAtelier Works, Design

CONFERENCE COMMUNICATIONSUte Weiland, Deputy Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft Peter Griffiths, Managing Editor, LSE Cities Cristiana Costanzo, Head of Press and Media Relations, Visual Arts and Architecture, la Biennale di Venezia Caterina Heeckt, Conference photographer, LSE Cities Andrea Rota, Web Developer and Operations Manager, LSE Cities

CONTACT

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