Events | LSE Cities

Jun

5

Multilingual Streets: London's litmus strips of change

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

May

28

Catastrophic Urbanism: Disaster, Emergency, Cities

This workshop on disaster, emergency, and the city explores the force of catastrophic events.

This workshop on disaster, emergency, and the city explores the force of catastrophic events—actual and potential, real and imagined, past and future—across the domains of politics and governance, the built environment, popular culture, and everyday life.

Jun

4

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

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

Apr

26

Interdisciplinary action for urban health

This public lecture reflected upon interdisciplinary efforts so far in urban health, and identified priorities for the future.

It is now widely accepted that urban health demands an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach, in light of the complexity and multi-faceted nature of cities and the importance of factors outside medicine and public health in determining health outcomes.

Events
LSE Cities hosts public lectures, book launches, expert seminars and discussions about the complexities involved in running, building and living in cities around the world. Architects, sociologists, politicians, and planners, join in the debate with engineers and film directors, mayors and policy makers, civil society and the general public.