Conference programme
Friday 25 February 2005
09:00 — 09:30 Opening Session
Welcome
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE and Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue
An Agenda for the City: The Urban Age project
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE
Civility and Urban Space
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU
09:30 — 10:45 New York and London
Two Models of the Metropolis
- Chair:
- Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
Presentations
Understanding the City: Socio-economic Trends and Spatial pattern
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE
Empowering the City: Legal structures and Political Power
Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Working in the City: Local Economies in a Global Environment
Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago
Designing the City: The Architecture of Identity
Deyan Sudjic, Architectural critic, The Observer
Debate
Open discussion
11:00 — 12:45 Labor Market and Work Places
Do Jobs Build Cities or Do Cities Build Jobs?
- Chair:
- Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
Opening Statement
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, TU Hamburg
Propositions
New Media Networking and Manufacturing in Dense Urban Environments
Susan Christopherson, Professor, Cornell University
Building Typologies of the Economy of Change
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Responses
Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance
Frank Duffy, Founder, DEGW, London and New York
Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology, CUNY
Jonathan Rose, Principal, Jonathan Rose Companies LLP
Debate
Open discussion
12:45 — 13:30 Lunch
13:30 — 14:15 Lunch Talk
An Urban Age in a Suburban Country?
Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
14:15 — 16:00 Mobility and Transport
Travelling Less, Living Better. Who Pays?
- Chair:
- Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
Opening Statement
Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna
Propositions
Making a Transport Strategy Work for New York
Robert E. Paaswell, Director, Institute for Urban Systems, City College of New York
Financing Urban Transport
Richard Ravitch, Principal, Ravitch Rice and Company
Making Places for Movement
Alejandro Zaera Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects
Responses
Katie Lapp, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association New York
Kathryn Wylde, President, Partnership for New York City
Debate
Open discussion
16:00 — 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 — 17:45 Debate
Connecting Urban Governance and Planning
- Chair:
- Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
Panel Discussion
Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington D.C
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1997 – 1999
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE
Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance
Ester Fuchs, Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning, City of New York
Debate
Open discussion
Saturday 26 February 2005
09:45 — 10:00 Coffee
10:00 — 11:45 Public Life and Urban Space
Feeling Safe in the Crowd
- Chair:
- Tony Travers, London School of Economics
Opening Statement
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne
Propositions
Civilizing Security in New York: A View from Europe
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne
Crime Currents in New York and the Co-production of Security
Jeff Fagan, Director of the Centre for Violence Research and Prevention, Columbia University
Does Space Matter to Public Life?
Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam
Responses
Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1997 – 1999
John Mollenkopf, Professor of Sociology, CUNY
Debate
Open discussion
11:45 — 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 — 13:30 Housing and Neighbourhoods
Squeezing the Middle
- Chair:
- Tony Travers, London School of Economics
Opening Statement
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE
Propositions
Affordable Housing, Manufacturing and the Artist Community: Williamsburg Green Point Waterfront
Shaun Donovan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Integrating Large Institutions into Fine Grain Urban Neighbourhoods: Columbia University expansion
Marilyn Taylor, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Responses
Amanda Burden, Director, NYC Planning Department
Michael Sorkin, Michael Sorkin Studio, NYC
Nick Retsinas, Director, Joint Center of Housing Studies, Harvard University
Ron Shiffman, Co-Founder, Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development
Debate
Open discussion
13:30 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:00 Debate
Towards an Urban Model
- Chair:
- Deyan Sudjic, The Observer
Panel Discussion
Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam
Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, New York
Alejandro Zaera Polo, Foreign Office Architects, London
15:00 — 16:00 Conclusions
New York is Almost Alright? Towards a Programme for the Urban Age
- Chair:
- Tony Travers, London School of Economics
Contributions
Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association New York
Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance
Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU
Daniel Rose, President, Rose Associates