Welcome to the Electric City
This week, on 6-7 December, London hosts the Urban Age Electric City conference: investigating how the combined forces of technological innovation and the global environmental crisis are affecting urban society.
Visit the conference microsite now for all the latest news ec2012.lsecities.net – the Electric City will be live-streamed here throughout Thursday and Friday GMT.
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Attended by over 300 delegates from around the world, keynote contributors will include:
- Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, author of ‘The 100-Mile City’
- Ed Glaeser, Professor Economics, Harvard University, author of ‘The Triumph of Cities’
- Saskia Sassen, Co-chair of the Committee of Global Thought, Columbia University, author of ‘The Global City’
- Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and New York University, author of ‘The Craftsman’
- Anthony Giddens, Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University and LSE, author of ‘Politics of Climate Change’
- David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, UK
- Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor of London
- Joan Clos, Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme
- Carl Cederschiöld, Mayor of Stockholm 1998-2002
- Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington D.C. 1999-2007
- Roland Busch, CEO Sector Infrastructure & Cities and member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG
- Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalisation Officer and Executive Vice President for the Emerging Solutions Group, Cisco
- Richard Rogers, Architect and Chairman, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
- Adam Greenfield, Managing Director, Urbanscale, New York City
- Carlo Ratti, Director MIT Senseable City Lab
- Bjarke Ingels, architect and principal, BIG
- Alejandro Zaera Polo, Founder, Alejandro Zaera Polo Architecture, and Dean, School of Architecture Princeton University
- Erik Spiekermann, Principal, EdenSpiekermann
‘Intelligent cities are exciting. They are a living laboratory for smart urban technologies that create a public conversation between city residents and urban leadership, and amongst citizens comparing notes. But from experimentation and discovery, we could slide into a managed space where ‘sensored’ becomes ‘censored’ rather than a world of open-source urbanism.’ – Saskia Sassen
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