Conference programme
Friday 10 November 2006
10:00 — 11:00 Opening
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
Klaus Wowereit, Mayor, Berlin
Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
11:00 — 12:00 Introduction
The Urban Age Project
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science and Advisor on Architecture to the Mayor of London
Policy Implications for the Urban Age
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
12:00 — 13:00 Lunch
13:00 — 14:30 Labour Market and Work Places
Urban economies: Challenges of Inequality and the Informal
- Chair:
- Ed Soja, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science and University of California Los Angeles
Presentation
Cities and Their Global Economies
Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Respondents
Carl Weisbrod, former President, New York Downtown Alliance
Caroline Kihato, Policy Analyst, Development Bank of Southern Africa
José Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911sc and Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana School of Architecture, Mexico City
Alejandro Zaera Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects, London
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, HafenCity University Hamburg
Debate
Open discussion
14:30 — 16:00 Mobility and Transport
Moving People, Making City
- Chair:
- Andy Altman, Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000-2005 and Partner, LeftBank Development Company, New York
Presentation
Transport as Politics
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá, 1998-2001
Respondents
Peter Hendy, Commissioner, Transport for London
Friedemann Kunst, Director, Transport Planning, Senate Administration for Urban Development, Berlin
Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
Debate
Open discussion
16:00 — 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 — 18:00 Panel Discussion
Governance and the City
- Chair:
- Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Professor for Governance, Social Science Research Centre Berlin
Opening statement
Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard University
Panel
Anthony Williams, Mayor, Washington D.C.
José Serra, Governor-elect, State of São Paulo and Mayor, City of São Paulo, 2004-2006
Andrew Boraine, Chairperson, South African Cities Network, Cape Town
Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor-elect, Mexico City
Amanda Burden, Chair, City Planning Commission, New York City
Axel Gedaschko, State Secretary, Department of Urban Development and the Environment, Hamburg
19:30 — 23:00 Dinner
Saturday 11 November 2006
09:00 — 10:30 Public Life and Urban Space
Managing Safety in the Urban Age
- Chair:
- Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science
Presentation
Securing London
Ian Blair, Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, London
Respondents
Jörg Ziercke, President, Federal Criminal Police Office, Federal Republic of Germany
P.S. Pasricha, Director General, Maharashtra State Police, India
Jeff Fagan, Director of the Centre for Violence Research and Prevention, Columbia University, New York
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Director, Centre for Urban Studies, Sorbonne, Paris
Debate
Open discussion
10:30 — 10:50 Reflection
Open Cities and Brittle Cities
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:50 — 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 — 12:45 Housing and Urban Neighbourhoods
Urban Design and City Form
- Chair:
- Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London
Presentation
Connecting Space to Society
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science and Advisor on Architecture to the Mayor of London
Respondents
Enrique Norten, Director, Ten-Arquitectos, Mexico City
Lindsay Bremner, Chair, School of Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard Baron, Chairman and CEO, McCormack Baron & Associates, St. Louis
Mphethi Morojele, Director, MMA Architects, Johannesburg
Debate
Open discussion
12:45 — 13:45 Lunch
12:45 — 13:45 German Cities
Germany’s Global City-Network
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, HafenCity University Hamburg
A New Spatial Paradigm for Germany
Wolfgang Tiefensee, Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany
14:15 — 16:00 Panel Discussion
Berlin’s Future: Different Perspectives
- Chair:
- Maybrit Illner, Journalist and Author, Berlin
Presentation
Norman Foster, Chairman, Foster and Partners
Panel
Wolf Lepenies, Professor of Sociology, Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
Mathias Döpfner, Chief Executive, Axel Springer Publishing
Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London
Frank Schirrmacher, Publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, Berlin
Hans Stimmann, Secretary of State, Senate Administration for Urban Development, Berlin
16:00 — 16:30 Reflection
Lessons Learnt
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
Closing Remarks
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG