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

Linking the Social to the Physical in Global Cities

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science

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

12:00 13:30 Cities and Social Capital

Chairs:
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science and Korel Göymen,Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Member of Executive Committee, Istanbul Policy Centre, Sabancı University, Istanbul

Presentations

Global flows of urban change

Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York

The changing urban context in Turkey

Joan Clos, Ambassador of Spain to Turkey and Mayor of Barcelona, 1997 – 2006

Istanbul: between local and global

Çağlar Keyder, Professor, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

Discussion

Dieter Läpple, Professor of Urban Economics, HafenCity University Hamburg; Henk Ovink, Director, National Spatial Planning, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands; Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard University; İlhan Tekeli, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Nefise Bazoğlu, Former Chief, Monitoring Systems Branch, UN-Habitat, Istanbul

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

Social narratives in global cities

Suketu Mehta, Author, Maximum City and Associate Professor, School of Journalism, New York University, New York

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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