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Current student Ghadeer Mansour Teaching 2016-17: is also the Co-Director of Finance for the LSE Africa Summit, an Ricky Burdett annual two-day conference that Suzi Hall showcases Africa's contributions to Julia King the world. The summit is a platform David Madden to engage in and explore cutting Philipp Rode edge research and business trends Don Slater across Africa's rapidly changing Fran Tonkiss socio-economic environment. Now Savvas Verdis in its fourth year, the summit has MSc Programme Manager: welcomed heads of state, senior MSc City Design graduates at the LSE government officials, leading Anna Livia Johnston Graduation Ceremony December 2016, entrepreneurs, and researchers image courtesy of Megan Groth. from across Africa and its diaspora. T: 020 7955 6828

The 2017 theme is "Built for Africa: MSc student news African Solutions to African Issues," For enquiries please email

hosting panels and presenters [email protected] Congratulations to our latest MSc across a broad range of disciplines, City Design and Social Science including discussions of design Website: graduates who received their within African context. More lse.ac.uk/LSECities/citiesProgramme degrees in December, and information can be found onine at especially to Heather Zaccaro, Cities News editor: lseafricasummit.org and the LSE awarded the Cities Prize for Anna Livia Johnston Africa Summit social media Academic Achievement 2016, and pages. Save the date: March 31st Darren Gill, awarded the Cities & April 1st. Prize for Outstanding Contribution commitment to support green

2016 in recognition of his corridors and improve air quality contribution to the work and culture and biodiversity. Alumni news of the programme.

“We welcome you to visit and post Naveed Ahmed (Class of 2008) is Heather reports that she is already photos and feedback about this Principal Strategy Planner for hard at work at her new job with the new feature on social media using Surface Strategy and Planning at National Complete Streets the hashtag #Buzzstop.” Transport for . He reports: Coalition at Smart Growth America. “Through TfL’s Internal Surface Darren is now working with Arup’s Innovation Fund I’ve installed a International Development Group. green roof bus shelter as part of an See our Alumni news for more urban greening project. The site about the Class of 2016 and was selected for the new green graduates from previous years. #Buzzstop so that the roof provides

an attractive pocket park visible at This year the focus of the City eye level as people exit Baker Design Research Studio, which is Street station, from surrounding at the heart of the MSc programme, buildings and from the top decks of is the huge Thamesmead passing buses. In Spring, development bordering the wildflowers will blossom creating a Thames in the south-east of much more visible presence. London. Thamesmead falls Keep off the grass! TfL’s new ‘buzzstop’, between the London Boroughs of image courtesy of Naveed Ahmed. “The #Buzzstop provides a new Greenwich and Bexley and is home habitat for pollinators such as to 40,000 people. It emerged in the Dr Corinna Dean (PhD Cities solitary bees and butterflies late 1960s as part of a ‘new town’ 2014) has taken up a position as creating a link in the green corridor planning initiative in response to Lecturer in the Architecture between Hyde Park and Regents London’s housing shortage. To Department of the University of Park, supporting London’s B line complement this exploration of a Westminster. She will be carrying initiative. Additionally, it supports London site the students will visit out a residency in the ROOM sustainable urban drainage by Naples from 13-17 February 2017. gallery on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent cleverly channelling rainwater. It in June, as part of the Sheerness ties in to the Mayor’s manifesto Dockyard Preservation Trust,

Cities News exploring ideas under the archive University of Cardiff. He has Megan worked with Charlie Peel and research programme ARCA, contributed a chapter, "A Religious (2011) as an urban design Archive for Rural Contemporary Office Tower? Virgin Mary's consultant for his firm The New Architecture which she established Outspread Cloak in the City of Civic. in 2015 www.arca-projects.com London", pp. 171–188 in Quash, B., Rosen, A., Reddaway, C. (eds.) Denizer Ibrahim (2012) joined Sofia Garcia (2014) will present Visualising a Sacred City: London, BNP Paribas Real Estate in her current research on land Art and Religion. London: I. B. January 2017 as Director of Retail markets, property rights and Tauris, see publisher’s webpage. Special Projects. Denizer has housing affordability in Lima at the moved from Appear Here, the 18th Annual World Bank Günter has also written an article global leading online marketplace Conference on Land and Poverty to on "Seeing Capitalism in the View" for short term retail, to BNP Paribas be held in Washington D.C. in in a special issue on Tall Buildings Real Estate to head up and drive a March this year. Her paper is of Urban Design: new division within the retail team entitled: “From Housing to Titling: a http://www.udg.org.uk/sites/default focussed on advising clients, both critique of the Peruvian approach to /files/publications/UD139_magazin international landlords and housing informality and a e.pdf retailers, on their pop up/transient contribution to a new land and strategy and production. housing policy”. Recent graduate Cristian Gil (2016) and fellow members of the Dr Alasdair Jones (PhD Cities Sofia explores the Peruvian MINGA Collective Waste 2008), Assistant Professor in the practice of land titling, which was Management team won The Department of Methodology, has massively deployed during the Geneva Challenge in November recently been involved in a working 1990s under the neoliberalizing 2016. The Graduate Institute, group on ‘enabling- project of former president Alberto Geneva launched the Advancing interdisciplinarity in urban-related Fujimori, with the financial aid of the Development Goals Contest, an practice’ as part of the EU Horizon World Bank and following international competition for 2020 cost action ‘INTREPID’. The Hernando De Soto’s advice on graduate students, in 2014. The aim of this cost action is to better property theory. She analyzes how Challenge looks for theoretically understand how to achieve more the formal legalization of ownership grounded and pragmatic solutions effective interdisciplinary research through the delivery of individual to a relevant international as a means to order to enhance our freehold titles functioned as a form development problem; in 2016 this capacity to meet increasingly of neoliberal populism which was The Challenges of complex and ‘wicked’ expanded the gap between the Urbanisation. contemporary global (urban) formal housing market and the challenges. The cost action poor’s capacities to access it; and involves regular themed action undermined the State’s own workshops and conferences across financial capacities for investment Europe, as well as training schools in affordable serviced land and in interdisciplinarity for urban public housing. research and practice, and selective funding is available for The work of Re-constructing participation in these. The Sarajevo, the publication which organisers of the Cost Action are many of the MSc City Design keen to involve more doctoral students and early career students 2013-14 contributed to, and edited by Sofia Garcia and Cristian Gil (third from right) and fellow researchers in INTREPID so Bronwyn Kotzen, will form part of Geneva Challenge prize-winners, image please get in touch with Alasdair the Sarajevo Now conference line- courtesy of Cristian Gil. ([email protected]) if you might be up on invitation from Professor interested in taking part. Alfredo Brillembourg and Haris Peter Griffiths (2014), Managing Piplas - curator of Sarajevo Now, a Editor at LSE Cities, has written a Juan Sebastian Lama (2014), is pavilion at the Venice Biennale and report on ‘Bolstering urbanization making news in San Francisco part of Urban Think Tank at ETH, efforts: Africa’s approach to the with Hitmap, a Smart Cities start-up Zurich: http://www.reactivate- New Urban Agenda’, Chapter 4 of based on a sales prediction sarajevo.com/#team. Serena the Brookings report Foresight algorithm (MyHitmap.com). Girani presented the publication on Africa: Top priorities for the Friday 23 September 2016, as an continent in 2017. Hitmap is an online service where LSE alumna and representative of retailers can find new business the Reconstructing Cities project. Megan Groth (2016) has joined locations and predict sales for each LSE Cities as the new store. The core is an algorithm Dr Günter Gassner (PhD Cities Publication Coordinator to assist that statistically condenses 2013 and former Course Tutor in with the third instalment of the hundreds of urban variables (e.g. the Cities Programme) is currently Urban Age book. After graduation median income, distance to public Lecturer in Urban Design at the and prior to joining LSE Cities, transport, closeness to

Newsletter of the Cities Programme, LSE, Lent Term 2017 2 Cities News competitors) into a sales-prediction regional corridors. To learn more Max Pollock (2012) has started a score specific to each business. go to design-competition.rpa.org. non-profit called Brick + Board in The plan, a multi-year research Baltimore, MD. He says “We hire In its three years of research effort, will be released in the fall and train people with barriers to development and operations, accompanied by an exhibition from employment, and train them in Hitmap has shown its full potential the design competition finalists in salvage, milling, and woodworking. by helping Off The Grid – the . Check out our website: famous food-truck markets in San brickandboard.com!” Francisco, California – expand from Alejandra de la Mora (2016) is 5 to 52 locations in two years, now working at the Sustainable Bethania Soriano (2012) is a becoming the fastest-growing food- Development Research Centre at member of MobiliCity, a research truck company in the USA. But its the National Workers Housing initiative aimed at making London’s potential doesn't end in retail, Fund (Infonavit) in Mexico, where transport network more accessible Hitmap GIS intelligence and easy- she is in charge of two projects. for those with mobility restrictions. to-use interface has also proved One is research into social housing The six-month project is funded by effective for cities transforming for rent, focusing on the internal the European Commission Horizon underdeveloped commercial framework of Infonavit, with the 2020 Programme, under the areas. They want to make a call to intention of getting on foot a pilot OrganiCity umbrella. The group of any reader who is interested in – or project at the end of the year. The urban professionals is studying researching – big data and cities, to other is an in-depth analysis of the how people with mobility create a space for collaboration re-drawing of the urban outlines of restrictions utilise the London and debate: contact juan@hit- Mexico's most populous cities. transport system, by tracking the map.com. movements of volunteers as they Nicolas Palominos (2012) has just go about their daily journeys Nabeela Malik (2016) has had a begun PhD studies at The Bartlett through the city. The goal is to proposal accepted to present a Centre for Advanced Spatial analyse collated data, highlighting paper at an upcoming conference. Analysis, UCL. His research inaccessible, ‘black spots’ along She will present ‘The Tempelhof focuses on how citizens’ the network, and provide transport Revisited: Spaces of Crisis Driven engagement with urban issues is authorities with recommendations Urbanism’ at the 54th International being and could unfold in a context on how to improve accessibility. Making Cities Liveable Conference of rapid advancement of urban and You can find more about the project on Public Places for Community, digital technologies, with a focus on on www.mobilicity.london. Democratic Dialogue, Health, and the design of interactive Equity in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2- visualisations that can facilitate and Michael Sutherland (2006) has 6 October 2017. synthesize the complexity of the moved to Hatch to lead the city and contribute to its knowledge, development and growth of Hatch's Lucrecia Montemayor (2008) has empowering and encouraging Urban Solutions consulting been named Deputy Director for citizens for an informed and practice in Canada. Prior to Hatch Energy and Environment at creative involvement in building Michael moved to private practice Regional Plan Association (RPA), more liveable cities. after leading the economics and an urban research and advocacy investment strategy analysis team non-for-profit based in New York at Metrolinx, the Toronto Region's City. Recently, she published a transport authority. Michael paper with Ellis Calvin on is helping high-profile public and Identification and Classification of private sector clients involved in Urban Development Place Types large-scale regeneration and for the New York Metropolitan development, and is actively hiring. Region, describing the process of Hatch Urban Solutions is a global creating a place typology for the platform with offices in California, New York Metropolitan Region for New York, Toronto, Melbourne, use in the upcoming regional plan A South Africa, and London. If you Region Transformed, which was are interested please contact him: presented in Seattle at the 1st Section detail Rye Lane (cropped), image [email protected]. International ACM SIGSPATIAL courtesy of Nicolas Palominos. Workshop on Smart Cities and Jessica Wurwarg (2004) was Urban Analytics. Tim Pittman (2011) recently recently awarded the McCloy finished the development and Fellowship on Global Trends As part of the planning process for publication of Gensler's new through the American Council on RPA's fourth regional plan, RPA in Research Catalogue, published on Germany. She spent some time in collaboration with Guy Nordenson January 15th, for which he served autumn 2016 in , Hamburg and Paul Lewis from Princeton as Managing Editor and Dresden, Germany looking at University, is launching a design (https://www.amazon.com/Gensler Urban Policies in Sustainability, competition in late January for -Research-Catalogue- specifically at renewable design strategies along four 2/dp/1939621410) energy/energy efficiency and

Newsletter of the Cities Programme, LSE, Lent Term 2017 3 Cities News sustainable food systems. These plants offer the currently and http://bit.ly/2dmsL7M. In Currently she works as the Energy largely untapped ability to manage Topos: The international review of Manager for the NYC Department effluent and convert that to water landscape architecture and urban of Transportation and teaches for a community who are deprived design, David published an essay about urbanization and food and of both. The method of research by on the proposed Garden Bridge, water security at New York live project (action based research) entitled “Designing Against the University’s SPS Center for Global is proposed in order to gain a more Public.” He also co-authored a Affairs. hands-on perspective by actively chapter in Neil Brenner’s recent participating rather than only book, Critique of Urbanization: observing; adding to emergent Selected essays (Basel: Birkhäuser Faculty news forms of architectural practice and Verlag GmbH, 2017). research, particularly in contested Professor Ricky Burdett has been and marginalized spaces, as the awarded a Commander of the endeavour of a collaborative PhD news Order of the British Empire (CBE) maker. as part of the New Year’s Honours Congratulations to our PhD List for 2017. The Honours List candidates who successfully recognises people who have made completed their PhDs in 2016 and achievements in public life and have been awarded their committed themselves to serving doctorates: Michelle Cullen for and helping Britain. Ricky Burdett’s ‘Cities on the path to 'smart': CBE is for services to urban information technology provider planning and design. interactions with urban governance through smart city projects in Dr Suzi Hall is very pleased to be Dubuque, Iowa and Portland, working within interdisciplinary Oregon’ and Philipp Rode for ‘The teams on two new research integrated ideal in urban projects. The High Streets For All governance: compact city project for the Greater London strategies and the case of authority explores the social and integrating urban planning, city economic value of London high design and transport policy in streets. LSE Cities and We Made London and Berlin’. That have teamed up, and Suzi and Julia King are working with MSc We have updated our guidelines for City Design alumna Melissa Meyer prospective PhD candidates: if you (Class of 2013). A message to the new President from David are considering whether to apply Madden and daughter Emmanuelle, picture courtesy of David Madden. please read: Urban Sociology Suzi will also be joining Myria Cluster PhD outline. Georgiou from the Media and Dr David Madden recently held Communication Department at LSE two book launch events for his new to work on the Resilient book with Peter Marcuse, In LSE Cities news Communities, Resilient Cities? Defense of Housing. One was held Digital makings of the city of at the LSE and included Suzi Hall The third intensive teaching week refuge project, funded by the IGA- as a speaker. Another event was of the Executive MSc in Cities will Rockerfeller Grant. held at the CUNY Graduate Center run in mid-February. The EMC is in New York, where David Harvey a flexible, tailor-made programme The Royal Commission for the introduced the book. David has for urban professionals in the Exhibition of 1851 awards some 25 also recently given lectures at public, private and third sectors postgraduate Fellowships and Leeds University and Goldsmiths, who want to improve the way their Scholarships a year, for advanced . In December, organisations understand and study and research in science, he organised a public forum in the deliver change in cities. Enrolment engineering, the built environment Sociology Department at the LSE for the 2017 EMC is now open, for and design. The biennale Design on Society and Politics in the Age of more information follow link above Fellowship this year has been Trump. or email the Programme awarded to Dr Julia King for her Administrator Laurence Horstman proposal to identify, design, and David published an article in The at [email protected]. prototype interventions to address Guardian on 5 October entitled “A the problem of how to deliver Homegrown Housing Crisis.” Read sustainable sanitation solutions in online at http://bit.ly/2dwFBQ1. the context of disconnected With Peter Marcuse, he also marginalized communities in Delhi, published two pieces in Jacobin, India. The intention is to work from “No Rent for Rats” and “The the scale of the individual toilet all Permanent Crisis of Housing”, the way to micro treatment plants. available at http://bit.ly/2gCh78z

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