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2017
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
