Conference programme

Friday 2 November 2007

09:00 09:20 Welcome

Chairs:
Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank and Gunit Chadha, Managing Director and CEO, Deutsche Bank India

Speakers

Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society
Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science

09:20 10:45 The Global Urban Context

Chairs:
Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science

Presentations

The Urban Age and India

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science and Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism, Olympic Delivery Authority

Cities In A Global Context

Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York

The Future of India's Cities

Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Discussion

Abhay Pethe, Vibhooti Shukla Chair in Urban Economics, University of Mumbai; S. Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences; Lindsay Bremner, Chair, Architecture Department, Temple University; Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, HafenCity University, Hamburg.

10:45 11:00 Tea break

11:00 13:00 Envisioning the Future for Global Cities

Chair:
PS Pasricha, Director General, Maharashtra State Police and Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London

Presentations

Re-energising English Cities and the London 2012 Olympics

Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Olympics and London, UK Government

Developing Urban Visions

Andy Altman, Planning Director, Washington, D.C. 1999-2005

Mumbai’s Emerging Future

Cyrus Guzder, Chairman and Managing Director, AFL Group

Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class city

Sanjay Ubale, Secretary, Special Projects, State of Maharashtra

Mumbai: Which Way Forward?

Charles Correa, Architect, Charles Correa Associates

Mumbai: Which Way Forward?

Minar Pimple, Deputy Director (Asia), UN Millennium Campaign

Discussion

Ashok Bal, Deputy Chairman, Mumbai Port Trust; Suketu Mehta, Author; Narinder Nayar, Director, Governing Board of Bombay First; Sheela Patel, Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres

13:00 14:00 Lunch

14:20 14:40 Reflection

Urban Inequality

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

14:40 15:45 Housing the Urban Poor – Part One

Chairs:
Milind Deora, Member of Parliament for Mumbai South and Darren Walker, Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Reforming the Housing Debate

S.S. Kshatriya, Principal Secretary, Housing Department, Government of Maharashtra

Dharavi – A Global Case Study 1

Mukesh Mehta, Chairman, MM Project Consultants Pvt. Ltd

Dharavi – A Global Case Study 2

Jockin Arputham, Director, National Slum Dwellers Federation

International Experiences

Housing for the Poor in Developing Country Cities: The Bogotá Case

Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogota 1998-2001

The Mexico City Case: Ciudad Neza

José Castillo, Architect and Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico

Tokyo to Mumbai & Back

Matias Echanove, Researcher, University of Tokyo

15:45 16:00 Tea break

16:00 17:30 Housing the Urban Poor – Part Two

Chairs:
Milind Deora, Member of Parliament for Mumbai South and Darren Walker, Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Discussion and Open Debate

Shirish Patel, Planner, SPA Consultants; PK Das, Architect, PK Das and Associates; Suresh Sharma, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Rahul Srivastava, Research Advisor, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research

Saturday 3 November 2007

09:30 10:45 Climate Change and Cities

Chairs:
Ramesh Ramanathan, Co-Founder, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy and Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science

Presentations

Climate Change, Risk and Urbanisation

Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, and Director, India Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science

Green Delhi

Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi

Discussion

Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Magazine; Debi Goenka, Executive Trustee, Conservation Action Trust; Geetam Tiwari, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

10:45 11:00 Tea break

11:00 13:00 How Cities are Planned

Chairs:
Ratnakar Gaikwad, Metropolitan Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority and Andy Altman, Planning Director, Washington, D.C. 1999-2005

Presentations

Governance and City Design

Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science

Shaping the City

Philipp Rode, Executive Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science

Case Studies

Planning for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR)

Uma Adusumilli, Chief Planner, Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority

Learning from Planning in Johannesburg

Jo Beall, Professor of Development Studies, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

The São Paulo Case

Helena Maria Gasparian, Special Advisor of International Relations to the Governor, State of São Paulo

Shaping Singapore

Heng Chye Kiang, Dean, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore

Discussion

KC Sivaramakrishnan, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi; Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor, MIT; Enrique Norten, Architect, TEN Arquitectos; Barun Kumar Ray, Secretary, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority; Mauricio Camps, Special Advisor of International Relations to Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico City

13:00 14:20 Lunch

14:20 14:40 Reflection

Governing Global Cities: Who Decides?

Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

14:40 16:40 City Leaders Forum

Chairs:
Darryl D’Monte, Chair, Forum of Environmental Journalists and Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science

Running Cities Debate

Kumari Selja, Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
Johny Joseph, Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra
Bikash Bhattacharya, Mayor of Kolkata
Jayant Patil, Minister of Finance, State of Maharashtra
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogota 1998-2001
José Serra, Governor of the State of São Paulo
Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1999-2007

16:40 17:00 Closing Remarks

Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science
José Serra, Governor of the State of São Paulo and Host, Urban Age South America Conference 2008
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society