REPORT JULY 2012 – SEPTEMBER 2014 2 INTRODUCTION CONTENTS LSE Cities LSE Cities is an international centre supported by INTRODUCTION 4 London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank which explores how people and cities Political Science interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how Director’s report 5 Houghton Street the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the LSE Cities staff 8 London WC2A 2AE environment. Through research, conferences, educational LSE Cities visiting appointments 13 United Kingdom programmes and public lectures, the centre aims to Timeline 14
[email protected] shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities www.lsecities.net fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers. RESEARCH 16 Unit A: Cities, Space and Society 18 The Centre works with international organisations such as the United Nations Environment Programme and Unit B: Cities, Environment and Climate Change 21 UN Habitat, as well as regional city governments and Unit C: Urban Governance 23 institutions. In addition to core funding from Deutsche Bank, LSE Cities has received grants from the TEXTS 24 Andrew Mellon Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the European Investment Bank, the ESRC and the Multilingual citizenship Suzanne Hall 26 European Union. Electricity a thing and an idea Deyan Sudjic 28 Securing Bogotã Austin Zeiderman 31 Designing urban democracy Ricky Burdett 36 Good homes for art Richard Sennett 42 Cities and the new climate economy Graham Floater and Philipp Rode 46 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 58 OUTREACH 64 Urban Age 66 Communications 68 Selected lectures and presentations 70 PUBLIC LECTURES 78 Seminars and symposia 82 EDUCATION 86 Cities Programme 88 GOVERNANCE 90 LSE Cities staff 91 LSE Cities governing board 92 LSE Cities advisory board 92 Graphic Design Atelier Works www.atelierworks.co.uk Cover image credit Tuca Viera 4 5 INTRODUCTION: DIRECTOR’S REPORT DIRECTor’s REPORT Society, the Edinburgh Book Festival and the Whitechapel July 2012 to September 2014 Art Gallery.