Past events 2019 14 November | Making Connections for Climate Action: urban transport and renewable energy 5 November | Planning New York 18 September | Led by children: designing an inclusive city 2 April | Athens’ Grassroots Regeneration: Reflections from Mayor Georgios Kaminis 22 March | PhD Debate - Common Ground beyond Disciplines: Readings on Urban Infrastructure 14 March | LSE Cities Research Seminars 11 March | Contradictions in Contemporary Urbanisation: Cities of the Arabian Peninsula 28 February | Developing Urban Futures 19 February | The Role of Cities in a Global Economy 12 February | Political Strategies and Tactics for Transformative Urban Change 2018 11 December | City Planning in the Digital Age 29 November | Ponte City-as-Archive of Loss 10 October | Palaces for the People 26 September | Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (London) 18 September | Turning data into design 15 September | Shaping Cities in an Urban Age | Venice Biennale Meetings on Architecture 23 June | Kengo Kuma on architecture and identity 18 June | Governing Compact Cities 5 June | India's Smart Cities Agenda 17 April | Transforming Nigeria’s urban agenda 16 April | Democratic lives in the 21st century 10 April | Too Big: Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change 9 April | City ambition: Why we need it, what it looks like, how we get there 20 March | Building and Dwelling: ethics for the city 6 March | Migration and the city 23 February | Getting Ahead of the Curve: addressing housing needs in rapidly growing cities 13 February | At the Limits of Urban Theory: Racial Banishment in the Contemporary City 23 January | Resource Urbanisms London report launch 2017 5 December | Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism 7 November | Efficiency by Design: Urban growth in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Singapore 9 October | The New Urban Crisis 28 September | High Streets for All 13 September | Innovation, Governance, Technology – are they connected? 6 September | A Place for All People 10 July | Good Growth by Design – A Vision for London 13 June | Experiences from the front lines in de Blasio’s New York City 8 June | Urban Uncertainty report launch 6 June | Radical Technologies: The design of everyday life 23 May | Capacity building for city leadership: The role of universities 4 April | London 2050: Rethinking Long-Term Planning 28 March | The Well-Tempered City 22 March | Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - London 14 March | Vienna: An Open City in Divisive Times 25 February | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Beijing) 25 February | London: Bike city? LSE Literary Festival discussion 14 February | Urban Governance and the New Urban Agenda: Implications for Governments 31 January | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (London) 24 January | Building Knowledge 2016 13 December | Roger Madelin in Conversation with Ricky Burdett 7 December | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Paris) 29 November | State of European Cities 17 November | Urbanisation Trends in South Asia: The Case of Karachi 3 November | Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life 17 October | LSE Cities at Habitat III 12 October | Next Steps for the Northern Powerhouse ***cancelled*** 6 October | City Planning and Health: a Global Challenge 5 October | Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East 4 October | Designing Respect Exhibition 28 September | Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - Kuwait 27 September | Cities and the new climate economy: on the role of urban form and transport 26 September | Resource Urbanisms Project Workshop - Abu Dhabi 6 September | The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur 18 August | Tania Bruguera and Saskia Sassen: In Conversation 13 June | Johannesburg: A City Between 2 June | Queering the African City: Johannesburg and Nairobi 5 May | Protect and Develop 15 March | The World’s Climate Capital? COP21 and the Greening of Paris 27 February | The Future City: cruel or consoling Utopia? LSE Cities Literary Festival discussion 21 January | Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai 12 January | Detroit Rising?: Crisis, Bankruptcy, and Reinvention 2015 3 December | Narratives of Inclusion 26 November | Designing Urban Infrastructure 25 November | The Politics of Equity 23 November | Steering Urban Growth 19 November | Confronting Climate Change 11 November | Disrupting Mobility Summit 2 November | London Launch of Towards New Urban Mobility Report 22 October | New Urban Diversities: London perspectives 19 October | Event Cancelled: Architecture and Urbanism 6 October | ‘Ordinary Streets’ film launch 21 September | Berlin Launch of Towards New Urban Mobility Report 21 September | Migrant streets: exploring radical visualisation 20 August | Spaces for Literacy 16 June | Erasure and displacement: urban memoryscapes workshop #2 15 June | Designing the Urban Commons 11 June | Designing Commons, Defining Commons 8 June | Double Vision exhibition hosted by the Mellon Fellowship Programme in Cities and Humanities at LSE Cities 20 May | The Happiness of Cities 12 May | Moving In and Around the City: Mobilities, Circulation, and Uncertainty 21 April | Ash Amin: Lively Infrastructures 25 March | Designing the Urban Commons: Lessons from the Field 25 March | Ideas Competition: Designing the Urban Commons 16 March | Configuring Light/Staging the Social events in Australia 28 February | Theatrum Mundi LSE Literary Festival discussion 25 February | An urbanising world: triumph or tragedy? 19 February | Configuring Light’s 3rd ESRC Seminar: Lighting Futures 17 February | Urban memoryscapes: space and memory in the post-conflict city 29 January | Better Growth, Better Climate: cities and the new climate economy 28 January | Energy Transitions: Implications for City Governments 27 January | Exhibition: Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes 19 January | Managing Disruption, Avoiding Disaster and Growing Stronger in an Unpredictable World 2014 11 December | Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space 8 December | Democracy, Decency and Devolution 27 November | Public lecture to celebrate Haworth Tompkins RIBA Stirling Prize 2014 14 November | Urban Age Governing Urban Futures conference 13 November | Urban Futures in the 'Asian Century' : Uncertainty, Speculation, Experimentation 5 November | Melbourne Unplugged 23 October | Peripheral Urbanisation 21 October | Moving Kiruna: A community reinventing its city 17 October | Symposium: Urban Lightscapes/ Social Nightscapes 13 October | Workshop: Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes 22 September | Lighting the Local 16 September | A City Worth Fighting For 11 September | Mediating Uncertainty: Information and the Urban 10 August | City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning Points for Civilisation 8 July | Petro-urbanisms: Urban futures on the oil frontier 19 June | Kapital Architecture: Commodity 16 June | Space for Architecture 16 June | Elephant and Castle Walkshop 16 June | Urban Governance Futures: Scenarios for London 11 June | Cities, Fragility and Conflict in an Uncertain World 13 May | Saskia Sassen: Expulsions 7 May | Configuring Light night walk 24 April | Configuring Light/ Staging the Social: Lighting London 10 April | Configuring the Urban Night 10 April | Cities and the New Climate Economy 3 April | Transforming Indian Cities: Challenges and Opportunities 3 April | CITY RELIGION CAPITALISM 3 April | Caught in the Crossfire: Urban Violence, Inside and Out 14 March | Urban data: From fetish object to social object 28 February | Policing the Possible: Governing Potential Criminality 12 February | Broken Edges: Cities and Other Ruins 30 January | Between life and death in Kinshasa: Film screening + discussion 30 January | Shifting Ground: The Precarity of Land on the Urban Periphery 2013 28 November | Transformative Design for Social Integration 25 November | Renewing Indian Cities: Challenges of Urbanisation and Development 4 November | Going Green: How cities are leading the next economy 29 October | The Metropolitan Revolution: Perspectives from US cities 10 October | Global migration and urban renewal 10 October | Word on the Street: City vocabularies of migration and diversity 3 October | Negotiating spaces: design for knowing 27 August | Networked Futures: The Politics of Urban Infrastructure 26 June | The Pandemic City: Governing Urban Health and Disease 25 June | Theatrum Mundi launches Negotiating Spaces: Time, Knowledge, Place, Material 24 June | RAMSES workshop: progress on EU cities and climate change adaptation project 5 June | Multilingual Streets: London's litmus strips of change 4 June | From Response to Resilience: the role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction 28 May | Catastrophic Urbanism: Disaster, Emergency, Cities 25 May | Embodied City – Mit Kunst Stadt entwickeln 23 May | NightSeeing™ 30 April | Fluid Uncertainty: Prospects of Urban Water 26 April | Interdisciplinary action for urban health 20 April | Spaces-in-Between: The City Becoming Ideas Camp 18 March | London Going East 7 March | Healthy African Cities 2 March | Between Curatorial and Urban Practice 11 February | Globalization, Fear and Insecurity 17 January | Land of the Seven Rivers 2012 12 June | City, street and citizen: the measure of the ordinary 15 May | The architecture of the Olympics 10 May | Rebel Cities: the urbanisation of class struggle 1 May | High speed rail and urban space 30 April | The return of the subject 3 March | Under the cranes: literature, film and the city 29 February | A public health approach to suicide prevention in Hong Kong 7 February | The World Bank-supported "Urbanization Knowledge Platform" 2011 1 September | The tale of two regions 29 June | Urban regeneration and social sustainability 6 June | Living in the endless city 20 May | The architecture of social investment 19 May | Distance and cities: where do we stand? 17 May | The architecture of governance: the structure of democracy 28 March | Cities and climate change 24 March | A vision for the next urban economy: from macro to metro 15 March | Ecological urbanism 26 January | African urbanism 17 January | The naked city 11 January | Politics, power, cities 2010 29 November | Cities and buildings 19 November | Lagos: confronting change in a global megacity 7 June | Cities under siege: the new military urbanism 2 June | Mexico City: inclusive actions towards sustainability 1 June | Climate change: the city solution 25 May | Beirut normal 18 May | Kinetic city: designing for informality in Mumbai 2009 17 November | Cities, design and climate change 14 October | Urban technologies and the environment 27 April | Architecture as investment 2008 18 November | The politics of mobility 21 October | London in a global context
