Publications

New Report: Towards New Urban Mobility

A comparative study on mobility attitudes in London and Berlin by LSE Cities and Innoz

The report ‘Towards New Urban Mobility: The case of London and Berlin’ provides insight into how urban transport policy can better leverage new and emerging mobility choices in cities.

New LSE Cities report: Innovation in Europe’s Cities

A report by LSE Cities on Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2014 Mayors Challenge

The Innovation in Europe’s Cities report was launched in London on the 4 February. Throughout 2014, researchers from LSE Cities provided input to Bloomberg Philanthropies on the political and demographic make-up of selected European cities, and carried out an objective assessment of the level of innovation shown by the shortlisted proposals.

Launch of New Climate Economy report

The studies by LSE Cities for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate

This series of studies for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, presents new evidence that cities will be central to global economic growth and climate action. Download here.

Governing Urban Futures

Urban Age Conference, Delhi, November 2014

The 13^th Urban Age conference addressed the role of urban governance in shaping the future development of cities. The way cities are designed and built, negotiated and contested, managed and run will be fundamental in determining their futures.

Publications

LSE Cities’ annual conference brings together international and local expert essays on topical themes relating to 21st century urbanism. It has published two compendiums based on the Urban Age conferences with Phaidon, The Endless City (2008) and Living in the Endless City (2011), and several research reports, including as coordinating authors for the ‘Buildings’ and ‘Cities’ chapters for the UNEP’s recent publication on the Green Economy. Further book projects developing the work on the Next Urban Economy and Cities, Health and Well-being are underway, and the centre’s work is also forthcoming in several articles with respected journals.