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Previously unseen data shows effect of financial crisis on European cities

LSE Cities has launched a new free online resource, supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, which shows the impact of economic recession and recovery in over 150 of Europe’s largest metropolitan areas.

Jun

25

Theatrum Mundi launches Negotiating Spaces: Time, Knowledge, Place, Material

Negotiating Spaces is a new nine-month investigation on themes emerging from over a year of collaborative workshops in London, New York, Frankfurt and Copenhagen.

Stockholm: Green Economy Leader Report

A report by the Economics of Green Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

A new report from LSE Cities looks in depth at what makes Stockholm a leader for green economic growth – and what this means for other cities.

Jun

4

From Response to Resilience: the role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction

Jo da Silva explored how engineers and built environment professionals need to shift from responding to natural disasters to building everyday resilience within homes, communities and cities.

LSE Cities

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the centre aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.
Jun

26

The Pandemic City: Governing Urban Health and Disease

The Urban Uncertainty workshop series

This workshop examines concerns about health and illness and the role they play in shaping the governance of urban spaces, populations and bodies.

Charles Correa exhibition at RIBA

Charles Correa exhibition at RIBA, and accompanying talk featuring Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett will be joining Charles Correa in conversation with Joseph Rykwer to discuss the continuing relevance and value of symbols as an element of contemporary design.

Jun

5

Multilingual Streets: London's litmus strips of change

LSE Cities and the London Festival of Architecture hosted a lecture by Suzanne Hall on 'Multilingual Streets: London's litmus strips of change', followed by discussion and drinks.

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You can watch the conference presentations on the Urban Age YouTube channel
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LSE Cities researcher Sobia Ahmad Kaker presents research at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

On Thursday 13 June, Sobia Ahmed Kaker of LSE Cities Urban Uncertainty research project, was invited to join a group of researchers working on a wide spectrum of issues linked to government and politics in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to brief specific country research analysts. Sobia presented her work on conflict and governance in Karachi to [...]

Jun

Sharon Zukin reviews Suzanne Hall’s ‘City, Street and Citizen’ in the British Journal of Sociology

Sharon Zukin of the City University of New York has reviewed Suzanne Hall’s ‘City, Street and Citizen’ in the British Journal of Sociology (volume 64, issue 1, p. 370-71). In the review, Zukin says: “The city street is the most taken-for-granted space in the social imagination. But as both backstage and foreground, social space and [...]

Jun

Reflections on the LSE Cities Urban Uncertainty Workshop Series

Kavita Ramakrishnan, PhD Candidate, Geography, University of Cambridge and Research Affiliate, LSE Cities, reflects on the recent ‘Fluid Uncertainty: Prospects of Urban Water’ workshop held at LSE Cities on 30 April. You can download a PDF summary here.

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