Conference programme
Thursday, 5 November 2009
09:00 — 09:45 Welcome
- Chair:
- Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society
Speakers
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society
Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State on Economics Affairs, Republic of Turkey
09:45 — 10:15 Introducing the Urban Age
Presentations
Comparing Attitudes in Urban Living
Ben Page, Chief Executive, IPSOS MORI UK and Ireland, London
10:15 — 11:45 Rethinking Cities in the Global Economy
- Chair:
- Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science and Şevket Pamuk, Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
Presentations
Financing cities in the global economy
Ersin Akyuz, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank A.S.
Growth, urbanisation and development
Kemal Derviş, Vice-President and Director of Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. and Senior Advisor, Sabancı University, Istanbul
American metropolitan cities in the post-recession period
Bruce Katz, Vice-President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Discussion
Jose Serra, Governor of the State of São Paulo; Anthony Williams, William H. Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999 – 2007; Nasser Munjee, Chairman, Development Credit Bank, India; Ahmet Misbah Demircan, Mayor of Beyoğlu Municipality, Istanbul; Muhsin Mengütürk, Member of Board of Directors, Doğus Holding, Turkey; Selahattin Yıldırım, Secretary General, United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia, Istanbul
11:45 — 12:00 Coffee Break
13:30 — 14:30 Lunch
14:30 Narratives of city experience
- Chairs:
- Deyan Sudjic, Director, London Design Museum and Hasan Bülent Kahraman, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabancı University and Columnist, Sabah Newspaper, Istanbul
Presentations
Istanbul: the hinge city
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The voice of Istanbul: who does a city belong to?
Gündüz Vassaf, Author and Psychologist, Istanbul
Discussion
15:45 — 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 — 18:00 Confronting history and urban change
- Chair:
- Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science and Asu Aksoy, International Projects, Santral Istanbul and Bilgi University, Istanbul
Presentations
Urban culture in the cities of the Mediterranean
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Barcelona: re-invigorating the centre
Eva Serra, Architect and Senior Planner, Barcelona
The spatial DNA of Istanbul
İhsan Bilgin, Director, Architectural Design Programme and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bilgi University, Istanbul and Murat Güvenç, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Architectural Design Master’s Programme, Bilgi University, Istanbul
Discussion
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Centre for Urban Studies, Universite Paris-Sorbonne; Ayşe Öncü, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, Istanbul; Murat Belge, Professor of Comparative Literature, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Orhan Esen, Historian and City-Guide, Istanbul; Pelin Tan, Sociologist and Art Historian, Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University
18:00 End of Day 1
Friday, 6 November 2009
09:00 — 11:00 Climate change and cities
- Chairs:
- Philipp Rode, Executive Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science and Sibel Sezer Eralp, Regional Director, Black Sea and Turkey, Regional Environmental Centre
Presentations
Balancing cars and pedestrians: the case of New York City
Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation
New green transport infrastructure in Delhi
Geetam Tiwari, Chair and Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
City transport and time
Fabio Casiroli, Chairman and Founding Member, Systematica, Milan
Patterns of mobility for Istanbul: what next?
Haluk Gerçek, Professor, Transport Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
Discussion
Sanjeev Sanyal, President, Sustainable Planet Institute, Delhi; Dimitri Zenghelis, Senior Visiting Tutor, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science and Chief Climate Economist, Cisco; Hilmar von Lojewski, Program Manager, GTZ - German Technical Cooperation, Damascus; Semih Eryıldız, Professor of Architecture and Urbanisation, Istanbul Aydın University
11:00 — 11:20 Coffee break
Designing sustainable cities
- Chairs:
- Andrew Altman, Chief Executive, 2012 London Olympics Legacy Delivery Company and Deputy Mayor, Philadelphia, 2008 – 2009 and Ömer Kanıpak, Founder, Arkitera Architectural Center, Istanbul
Presentations
Architecture for sustainable cities: London, Paris + the compact city
Richard Rogers, Chairman, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, London
Cheapness & democracy
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects, London
Politics for sustainable cities
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogota, 1998-2001
Discussion
13:00 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:30 Creating city-visions
- Chairs:
- Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Korhan Gümüş, Director, Urban and Architectural Projects, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency
Presentations
Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and London: case studies in urban vision
Andrew Altman, Chief Executive, 2012 London Olympics Legacy Delivery Company and Deputy Mayor, Philadelphia, 2008 – 2009
Setting a vision for London
Peter Bishop, Director, Design for London and Group Director, Development and Environment, London Development Agency
Masterplanning Istanbul
İbrahim Baz, Director, Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Centre
Discussion
Anthony Williams, William H. Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Management, Harvard Kennedy School and Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999 – 2007; Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science; Albert Speer, Managing Partner, Albert Speer and Partners Architects, Frankfurt am Main; Recep Bozlağan, General Secretary, Union of Municipalities of the Marmara Region, Istanbul; Erdoğan Yıldız, Representative, İstanbul Neighbourhoods Association Platform
15:30 — 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 — 17:30 Retrofitting cities
- Chairs:
- Enrique Norten, Founder, TEN Arquitectos, New York and Hüseyin Kaptan, Former 1st Director, Istanbul Metropolitan Planning and Urban Design Centre and Partner, Atelye 70 Planning and Design Group, Istanbul
Presentations
Hafencity Hamburg: re-modelling the post-industrial city
Kees Christiaanse, Partner, Kees Christiaanse Architects and Planners, Rotterdam and Professor of Architecture, ETH Zurich
Retrofitting Mexico City
José Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911 SC and Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
New ideas for retrofitting in Istanbul
Ömer Kanıpak, Founder, Arkitera Architectural Centre, Istanbul
Discussion
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University; Richard Brown, Programme Director, 2012 London Olympics Legacy; Klaus Bode, Founding Partner, BDSP Partnership, London; Melkan Gürsel Tabanlıoğlu, Partner, Tabanlıoğlu Architecture, Istanbul; Faruk Göksu, Founding Partner, Urban Strategy, Istanbul
17:30 — 18:00 Closing remarks
Şevket Pamuk, Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society
18:00 End of conference
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