La Biennale di Venezia has released a video interview with Professor Ricky Burdett on the Special Project ‘Report from Cities: Conflicts of an Urban Age.’ Professor Burdett, Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age, curated ‘Conflicts of an Urban Age’ for the 15^th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (28th May – 27th November 2016) in the context of Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development that will be held in Quito, Ecuador on 17-20 October 2016. He describes how the exhibition highlights the conflicts of “density against sprawl”, “equality against inequality” and “regulation against laissez-faire“, within a wider 25-year context characterised by “rice fields becoming megacities” and “deserts becoming urban playgrounds.” The full interview can be viewed here.

Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and director of LSE Cities was recently interviewed by Aaron M Renn for Urbanophile. The Landscape of Global Urbanisation provides insight into how developing cities can cope with astonishing growth rates and how the developed world can respond to soaring house prices.

Adam Kaasa, Director of LSE Cities’ Theatrum Mundi programme, will deliver a paper entitled “Domestic Monumentality: Scale and Affect in the Modern City” at The Centre Cannot Hold, part of Calvert 22’s ‘Power and Architecture’ series. The conference is free to attend but requires a £5 deposit in case of non-attendance.

LSE Cities Executive Director Philipp Rode will deliver the keynote address at Smart City Expo Istanbul tomorrow. The address, entitled “Cities, Transport and Accessibility” draws on research in our recent Towards New Urban Mobility report.