Theme announced for 2013 Urban Age conference

Urban Age Conference: City Transformations Rio de Janeiro, 24-25 October 2013

Organised by LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society, the 2013 Urban Age conference will investigate the impact of large scale urban development projects on the social, economic, political and physical make-up of cities.

The conference will be held in the Olympic City of Rio de Janeiro in October 2013 and will act as a platform for exchange and debate amongst over 150 policy-makers, academics, urban designers, architects, and representatives of NGOs and local community groups building on the Urban Age’s network established through previous conferences held since 2005 in New York, Shanghai, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Berlin, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, Chicago, Hong Kong and London.

Click here to register your interest in attending the Urban Age City Transformations Conference.