In his Guardian Cities piece titled ‘Beyond the maximum: cities may be booming, but who’s invited to the party?’ Suketu Mehta writes that ‘to build a great city, a just city, we have to look at who’s included and who’s excluded’.

Suketu Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. He is speaking at the LSE on Thursday 3 December at the Urban Age Global Debate on Narratives of Inclusion: can cities help us live together.

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The Urban Age Global Debate on Designing Urban Infrastructure with Norman Foster, which took place on Thursday 26 November, is featured in the Architects Journal.  Merlin Fulcher’s piece, ‘UK could learn from China about civic pride’, quotes Foster as calling on Western policy makers to ‘plan for future generations’ and deliver infrastructure for social good.

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In his Guardian Cities piece titled ‘The world wants more ‘porous’ cities – so why don’t we build them?’ Richard Sennett describes Nehru Place as ‘every urbanist’s dream: intense, mixed, complex’.  Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University. He is speaking at the LSE on Thursday 3 December at the Urban Age Global Debate on Narratives of Inclusion: can cities help us live together.

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‘How connected is your city? Urban transport trends around the world’ is part of the series of pieces published in Guardian Cities to celebrate 10 years of the Urban Age Programme.

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‘Who runs our cities? How governance structures around the world compare’ is part of the series of pieces published in Guardian Cities to celebrate 10 years of the Urban Age Programme.

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Saskia Sassen’s piece on ‘Who owns our cities – and why this urban takeover should concern us all’ features in Guardian Cities on Tuesday 24 November in advance of her lecture on ‘The Politics of Equity: who owns the city?’ on Wednesday 25 November at the LSE as part of the Urban Age Global Debates.

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In advance of the Urban Age Global Debate on Designing Urban Infrastructure: investing for now or tomorrow? at the LSE on Thursday 26 November, Ricky Burdett outlines why ‘cities are the solution, not the problem’ in Icon Magazine.

Alejandro Aravena is Director of the 2016 Venice Biennale and speaking at the LSE on Monday 23 November at the Steering Urban Growth Urban Age Global Debate. In his Guardian Cities piece titled ‘It’s time to rethink the entire role and language of architecture’ he argues for the need to harness the knowledge of other disciplines, embrace the insights of untrained citizens, and take architecture to new frontiers.

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Ricky Burdett from LSE Cities was on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday 19 November talking with Lucy Musgrave about cities and the Urban Age Global Debates.
Listen to the broadcast here by scrolling forward to 2:40:39.

Nick Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis look at how ‘the choices made in cities today will determine whether mankind can both manage climate change and capture the benefits of resource-efficient growth’ in their Guardian Cities piece. This is ahead of the Confronting Climate Change Urban Age Global Debate that Nick Stern is taking part in on Thursday 19 November at the LSE.

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