Urban Age Conference Developing Urban Futures Addis Ababa 29–30 November 2018
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URBAN AGE CONFERENCE DEVELOPING URBAN FUTURES ADDIS ABABA 29–30 NOVEMBER 2018 16.15–18.00 DELIVERING HOUSING FOR ALL 14.00–15.45 FINANCING URBAN FUTURES DAY 1 THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2018 Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Co-chairs: Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age and and Tau Tavengwa, Co-Founder and Editor, Cityscapes Magazine, Astrid Haas, Senior Country Economist (Cities), Cities that Work, Cape Town & Visiting Associate, LSE Cities IGC, Kampala 08.30–09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Framing Presentations (10 min each) Keynotes (15 min each) 09.30–09.45 WELCOME Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics and Research, Indian Institute for THE POLITICS OF URBAN FINANCE Takele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Human Settlements, Bangalore Vera Songwe, Under Secretary General, UN & Executive Secretary, Anna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Jose Castillo, Principal, a911, Mexico City UNECA, Addis Ababa Gesellschaft, Berlin Kecia Rust, Executive Director and Founder, Centre for Affordable Babatunde Fashola, Minister for Power, Housing and Works, Julia Black, Pro Director for Research, London School of Housing Finance in Africa, Johannesburg Government of Nigeria Economics (LSE) Jennifer Semakula-Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Presentations (5 min each) Authority, Uganda 09.45–10.00 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW MASS HOUSING MODELS Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, LSE & Director, LSE Cities Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect and Presentations (10 min each) and Urban Age Urban Planner, EIABC, Addis Ababa University INVESTING IN CITIES Singapore: Belinda Yuen, Professorial Fellow and Research Director, Samih Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom Development Holding GA, 10.00–11.15 AFRICA’S CORE CHALLENGES Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt Co-chairs: Joachim Fritz, Head of Department Governance and Conflict, Technology and Design Tsedeke Yihunie Woldu, Founder, Flintstones Engineering, Addis Ababa Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Karachi, Pakistan: Arif Hasan, Director, Urban Resource Centre, Nyah Zebong, Project Leader, African Property Tax Initiative, Germany and Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Karachi International Centre for Tax and Development, Yaoundé, Cameroon COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVES Panel Discussion (30 min) Introductory Keynotes (15 min each) Joseph Muturi, National Co-ordinator, Kenyan Slum Dwellers Federation & Co-ordinator, East and West Africa, SDI GOVERNING URBAN CHANGE 15.45–16.15 COFFEE Mpho Parks Tau, President, UCLG, Barcelona & Mayor of Johannesburg Taibat Lawanson, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Lagos (2011-16) 16.15–17.45 THE INCLUSIVE CITY DEFINING AFRICAN URBANISM Panel Discussion (30 min) Co-chairs: Jo Beall, Director Cultural Engagement, British Council & Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Open Discussion (20 min) Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Gautam Bhan, Lead, Academics Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin and Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore AFRICA’S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL Presentations (10 min each) Somik V Lall, Global Lead for Regional Development Solutions, World DESIGNING INCLUSIVITY Bank, Washington D.C. DAY 2 FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2018 Rahul Mehrotra, Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai & Professor CHALLENGES FOR YOUNG AFRICA of Urban Design and Planning, Graduate School of Design, Alcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Development 08.30–09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Harvard University Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Omar Nagati, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo (UNDESA) 09.30–11.00 TRANSPORT TRANSITIONS & TECHNOLOGY Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) Co-chairs: Elleni Ashebir, Cities and Urban Mobility Program Manager, DELIVERING INCLUSIVITY 11.15–11.45 COFFEE WRI Africa, Addis Ababa and Philipp Rode, Co-Director of the Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Mayor of Accra, Ghana Executive MSc in Cities, LSE & Executive Director, LSE Cities and Ulrich Hoerning, Deputy Mayor of Leipzig, Germany 11.45–13.15 URBAN GROWTH, PRODUCTIVITY & INNOVATION Urban Age Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania Co-chairs: Geci Karuri-Sebina, Associate, South African Cities Network, Presentations (5 min each) Panel Discussion (20 min) Johannesburg and Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, Yeraswork Admassie, Executive Director, Forum for Social Studies, University of Cape Town & Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert TRANSIT FUTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Addis Ababa; Alcinda Honwana, Inter-Regional Adviser on Social Bosch Academy, Berlin Ladi Lawanson, Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos Development Policy, United Nations Department of Economic and Social State Government Framing Presentation (15 min) Affairs, New York; Beth Stryker, Founding Partner, CLUSTER (Cairo Solomon Kidane, Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) J Vernon Henderson, School Professor of Economic Geography, LSE POPULAR TRANSIT 2.0 Panel Discussion (45 min) Open Discussion (20 min) Jacqueline M Klopp, Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Emanuel Admassu, Founding Partner, AD-WO & Assistant Professor, Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York Rhode Island School of Design; Brenda Katwesigye, Founder and CEO, 17.45–18.00 CONCLUDING REMARKS Justin Coetzee, Founder, GoMetro and flxrides.com, Cape Town Wazi Vision, Kampala; Abdellah Mallek, Founder, Sylabs, Algiers; Kate Kate Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE Anna Herrhausen, Executive Director, Alfred Herrhausen Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies, LSE; Philipp Gesellschaft, Berlin Misselwitz, Chair, International Urbanism and Design, Habitat Unit, TU VIRTUAL PLATFORMS AND REAL CITIES Berlin; Bikhado D Ofungi, Investor, Dero Capital, Kampala; Irene Sun, Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France Author and Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Washington D.C. Yolisa Kani, Head of Public Policy, Uber Southern Africa, Johannesburg Open Discussion (30 min) Panel Discussions (55 min) URBANAGE.LSECITIES.NET 13.15–14.15 LUNCH 11.00–11.30 COFFEE 14.15–15.45 PLANNING FUNDAMENTALS 11.30–13.00 ETHIOPIA’S URBAN TRANSFORMATION Co-chairs: Susan Parnell, Global Challenges Chair, University of Bristol Co-chairs: Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and & Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town and Rahul Mehrotra, Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University and Philipp Principal, RMA Architects, Mumbai and Professor of Urban Design and Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Presentations (10 min each) Presentations (7 min each) THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE COMPARING URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODELS Jantirar Abay, Minister for Urban Development and Construction, Paris, France: Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France Government of Ethiopia Medellín, Colombia: Alejandro Echeverri, Director, URBAM Center SHAPING ADDIS ABABA’S FUTURE for urban and environmental studies, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín Takele Uma Banti, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Seoul, South Korea: Hyungmin Pai, Professor of Architecture, University of Seoul Panel Discussion (40 min) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Marc Angelil, Architect and Professor of Architecture & Design, ETH Urban and Architectural Heritage, EiABC, Addis Ababa University Zürich; Zegeye Cherenet, Assistant Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa Kigali, Rwanda: Christian Benimana, Principal and Managing University; Betelehem Demissie Shibeshi, Spatial Plan Preparation Director, MASS Design Group & Director, African Design Director, Addis Ababa City Government Plan Commission; Maheder Centre, Kigali Gebremedhin, Principal, Yema Architecture and Radio Host, Kebet Eske Panel Discussion (30 min) Ketema, Addis Ababa; Dieter Läpple, Emeritus Professor, HafenCity University, Hamburg; Patrick Lamson-Hall, Research Scholar, Urban Open Discussion (25 min) Expansion Program, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York; Rahel Shawl, Founder and Managing Director, RAAS Architect, 15.45–16.15 COFFEE Addis Ababa Open Discussion (30 min) 13.00–14.00 LUNCH Jantirar Abay on informal mass housing in Rio de Department professor, specialising in urban, environmental and planning Arif Hasan Currently she chairs the Metrobus Board Patrick Lamson-Hall published widely on social networks, Minister of Urban Janeiro, and Cities of Change: Addis Ababa, financial services regulation and the projects. He is a Loeb Fellow from Director, Urban Resource and serves on the Advisory Board of Africa Research Scholar, Urban hybrid governance, youth unemployment, Development and on urban transformation in developing regulation of risk. She has advised many Harvard GSD and was given the Obayashi Centre, Karachi Teen Geeks, an NPO teaching South Expansion Program, NYU taxation and digital inclusion. Recent Construction, Government countries. Mirroring Effects: Tales of governmental and consumer bodies in Prize in 2016. Arif Hasan is a Pakistani African children computer skills, coding Marron Institute of Urban publications include co-edited Special of Ethiopia Territory, will be published in 2019. the UK and overseas and in December architect, writer and activist. He has been and robotics.