Conference programme

Friday 25 February 2005

09:00 09:30 Opening Session

Welcome

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE and Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue

An Agenda for the City: The Urban Age project

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

Civility and Urban Space

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU

09:30 10:45 New York and London

Two Models of the Metropolis

Chair:
Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

Presentations

Working in the City: Local Economies in a Global Environment

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago

Designing the City: The Architecture of Identity

Deyan Sudjic, Architectural critic, The Observer

Debate

Open discussion

11:00 12:45 Labor Market and Work Places

Do Jobs Build Cities or Do Cities Build Jobs?

Chair:
Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

Opening Statement

Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, TU Hamburg

Propositions

New Media Networking and Manufacturing in Dense Urban Environments

Susan Christopherson, Professor, Cornell University

Building Typologies of the Economy of Change

Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Responses

Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance
Frank Duffy, Founder, DEGW, London and New York
Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology, CUNY
Jonathan Rose, Principal, Jonathan Rose Companies LLP

Debate

Open discussion

12:45 13:30 Lunch

13:30 14:15 Lunch Talk

An Urban Age in a Suburban Country?

Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

14:15 16:00 Mobility and Transport

Travelling Less, Living Better. Who Pays?

Chair:
Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

Opening Statement

Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna

Propositions

Making a Transport Strategy Work for New York

Robert E. Paaswell, Director, Institute for Urban Systems, City College of New York

Financing Urban Transport

Richard Ravitch, Principal, Ravitch Rice and Company

Making Places for Movement

Alejandro Zaera Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects

Responses

Katie Lapp, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association New York
Kathryn Wylde, President, Partnership for New York City

Debate

Open discussion

16:00 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 17:45 Debate

Connecting Urban Governance and Planning

Chair:
Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

Panel Discussion

Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington D.C
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1997 – 1999
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE
Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance
Ester Fuchs, Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning, City of New York

Debate

Open discussion

Saturday 26 February 2005

09:45 10:00 Coffee

10:00 11:45 Public Life and Urban Space

Feeling Safe in the Crowd

Chair:
Tony Travers, London School of Economics

Opening Statement

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

Propositions

Civilizing Security in New York: A View from Europe

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

Crime Currents in New York and the Co-production of Security

Jeff Fagan, Director of the Centre for Violence Research and Prevention, Columbia University

Does Space Matter to Public Life?

Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam

Responses

Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1997 – 1999
John Mollenkopf, Professor of Sociology, CUNY

Debate

Open discussion

11:45 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 13:30 Housing and Neighbourhoods

Squeezing the Middle

Chair:
Tony Travers, London School of Economics

Opening Statement

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

Propositions

Affordable Housing, Manufacturing and the Artist Community: Williamsburg Green Point Waterfront

Shaun Donovan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development

Integrating Large Institutions into Fine Grain Urban Neighbourhoods: Columbia University expansion

Marilyn Taylor, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Responses

Amanda Burden, Director, NYC Planning Department
Michael Sorkin, Michael Sorkin Studio, NYC
Nick Retsinas, Director, Joint Center of Housing Studies, Harvard University
Ron Shiffman, Co-Founder, Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development

Debate

Open discussion

13:30 14:00 Lunch

14:00 15:00 Debate

Towards an Urban Model

Chair:
Deyan Sudjic, The Observer

Panel Discussion

Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam
Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, New York
Alejandro Zaera Polo, Foreign Office Architects, London

15:00 16:00 Conclusions

New York is Almost Alright? Towards a Programme for the Urban Age

Chair:
Tony Travers, London School of Economics

Contributions

Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association New York
Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance
Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU
Daniel Rose, President, Rose Associates

Comments and Closing Remarks