Monday 19 April

09.30

Opening Plenary

Hong Kong Lecture Theatre

Clement House, Aldwych

London School of Economics

Welcome to LSE

Howard Davies, Director LSE

Welcome to London

Bridget Rosewell, Greater London Authority

SETTING THE AGENDA:

The argument for resurgence (PDF)

Pierre Veltz, Ponts et Chaussees, Paris

The Resilience of US cities: Decline and Resurgence in the late 20th Century  (PDF)

Robert A Beauregard, New School University, New York

A tale of two Victorian cities: Glasgow & Melbourne (PDF)

Duncan Maclennan, Chief Economist, Government of Victoria, Australia

Explaining urban resurgence: can our theories do any better? (PDF)
Michael Storper, LSE/Sciences Po

12.30

Lunch in the Palm Court, Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych

14.00-17.30

 Themed sessions

The Serviced City

How better to use existing infrastructure resources - lessons from charging and transport infrastructure management (PDF)

Stephen Glaister, Imperial College

Infrastructure and the Path-Dependant City (PDF)

Eran Ben-Joseph, MIT

Reauthorization: Getting Transportation Right for Metropolitan America
Bruce Katz, Brookings Institute

Service provision in a metropolitan context: institutional challenges and responses (PDF)

Andrew Davies, OECD

-Financing urban resurgence - a view from the EIB (PDF)

-Urban Development - EIB in the Cities (PDF)

Gianni Carbonaro, European Investment Bank

The Interactive City

Bjorn Asheim, Lund University (Chair)

Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy (PDF)

Michael Storper, Sciences Po/LSE

The communication advantage of cities: What is it made of?  Does it matter? Will it survive? (PDF)

Gilles Duranton, LSE

What makes big cities tick? A look at New York (PDF)

Vernon Henderson, Brown University, US

Face-to face Contact and Earnings Polarisation in Successful Cities (PDF)

Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics

The Socially Integrated City

Cities and Social Capital (PDF)

Ed Glaeser, Harvard

Spatial segregation of ethnic groups in the Stockholm Region (PDF)

Bjorn Harsman, KTH, Stockholm

Segregation and the Attractive City: a Complicated Match (PDF)

Sako Musterd, Amsterdam

Cities and Diversity: Should we want it? Can we plan for it? (PDF)

Susan Fainstein, Columbia University

18.30-20.30

Reception hosted by Unilever in their boardroom. 

Welcome: Sir Michael Angus, Chairman, Leverhulme Trustees

Tuesday 20 April

09.00-12.30

Themed sessions continue

The Safe & Secure City

Why don't men rebel more often? The Unanswered Questions (PDF)

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sorbonne

Crime, Fear and Barricaded Cities: Prospects of Resurgence in South African Cities (PDF)

Nina Foster, Durban

Guns and Gangs (PDF)

Jan Stockdale, LSE

Terrorism and future urbanism (PDF)

Jon Coaffee, University of Newcastle

The Distinctive City

Supporting the Resurgence of Former Industrial Cities: The Role of Distinctive and Ordinary Assets (PDF)

Ivan Turok, University of Glasgow

The Distinctive City: Evidence From Artists and Occupational Profiles (PDF)

Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota

Boom Towns and Cool Cities: The Perils and Prospects of Developing a Distinctive Urban Brand in a Global Economy (PDF)

John Hannigan, University of Toronto

Discussants:

Roger Taylor, Doncaster City Council

Harvey Molotch, New York University

The Communal City

'Good local government' and the 'communal city' (PDF)

Hellmut Wollmann, Humboldt University of Berlin

Trevor Phillips, Chair, Commission for Racial Equality (UK)

Achieving Resurgent Cities: Community within/against/ beyond Empire (PDF)
Bob Catterall, Editor of CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action

12.30

Lunch in the Palm Court, Waldorf  Hotel, Aldwych

14.00-17.30

Themed sessions continue

The Sustainable City

Disciplining the Sustainable City: Moving Beyond Science, Technology or Society? (PDF)

Simon Marvin,Salford & Robert Evans, Cardiff

The environmentally sustainable city: learning from best practice? (PDF)

Presentation (PDF)

Harriet Bulkeley, Durham

The role of data in urban sustainability in the South

Roberta Miller,Columbia

Discussants:

Marianne Kjellen, Stockholm Environment Institute/Stockholm University

Willliam M. Lafferty, ProSus, University of Oslo

The Beautifully Designed City

15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee

Cafe Pepe

Convulsive Beauty in the Provisional City (PDF)

Dana Cuff, UCLA

The role of historic structures and infrastructure in both urban and suburban situations. How cities can be designed to both reveal and add to historic and natural conditions without remaining imprisoned in this legacy.

Aaron Betsky, Netherlands Architecture Institute

Some recent projects (PDF)

Alejandro Zaero-Polo, Foreign Office Architects, London

The Habitable City

15.30- 16.00 Tea and Coffee

Cafe Pepe

Whose habitable city? (PDF)

Peter Hall, Institute of Community Studies

Age of Anxiety (PDF)

Eric Klinenberg, New York University

The City as an Open System (PDF)

Richard Sennett, LSE

18.30

Public Lecture

Hong Kong Lecture Theatre

What people want from cities now and in the future (Word)

Professor Robert Worcester, Visiting Professor, LSE

Chairman, MORI.  Click here to see his presentation

www.odpm.gov.uk/corecities and www.odpm.gov.uk/eganreview

Chair: Anne Page, Governor, LSE and former Director, London Research Centre

Wednesday 21 April

09.00

Closing Plenary

Hong Kong Lecture Theatre

10.30-11.00 Tea and Coffee

Cafe Pepe

Part 1

Pulling the strands together

Discussants/rapporteurs

Part 2

Taking the agenda forward: (PDF)

Ed Glaeser, Harvard

Edmond Preteceille, Sciences Po

London - the Resurgent City (PDF) - Presentation (PPT)

Hamish Macrae, The Independent

12.30

Closing Lunch

Sponsored by the Corporation of London.

Guest speaker before lunch: 

Resurgent Cities (PDF)

Geoff Mulgan, Head of Policy, Prime Minister's Office (UK)

Venue:

Vilar Floral Hall

Royal Opera House

Covent Garden