Conference programme

Thursday 24 October 2013

08:30 — 09:00 Welcome

Bernardo Parnes, CEO Latin America and Chief Country Officer Brazil, Deutsche Bank
Tony Travers, Director, LSE London, LSE
Sérgio Cabral, Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro

09:00 — 10:30 Cities in transformation

Chair:
Andy Altman, Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation, 2009–2012

Presentations

Understanding city transformations: from London to Rio

Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, Director, LSE Cities, LSE

Rio de Janeiro: addressing urban asymmetries

Washington Fajardo, Adviser on Urban Affairs to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro

Barcelona: managing the compact city

Antoni Vives, Deputy Mayor, City of Barcelona

Mexico City: containing the endless city

José Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911 SC, Mexico City, Professor of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Open discussion

10:30 — 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 — 12:30 Spatial impacts of economic change

Chairs:
Manuel Thedim, Executive Director, IETS - Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade; Tony Travers, Director, LSE London, LSE

Presentations

Cities in a competitive economy: a global perspective

Dieter Läpple, Professor of International Urban Studies, HafenCity University Hamburg

The economics of good planning: integrating Hamburg

Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg, CEO, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

Re-inhabiting the inner city, Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro

Alberto Gomes Silva, CEO, The Port Region Urban Development Company of Rio de Janeiro (CDURP)

Panel discussion

Richard D Baron, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, McCormack Baron Salazar; Marcelo Haddad, CEO, Rio Negociós; Valéria Lúcia Pero, Associate Professor in Economics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Rodolfo Torres dos Santos, Director, Department of Urban Development and Mobility, BNDES.

Open discussion

12:30 — 13:30 Lunch

13:30 — 14:30 Social impacts of urban change

Chairs:
Silvia Ramos, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Studies on Security and Citizenship, Universidade Candido Mendes; Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London

Statements

The challenges of social integration and rapid urbanization

Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town

The politics of urban change in Brazil

Luiz E. Soares, Anthropologist, film-writer and commentator, Rio de Janeiro

Exclusion and inclusion in the contemporary city

Suketu Mehta, Author, Maximum City, and Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University

Panel discussion

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Emeritus Professor, University Paris-Sorbonne; Paula Miraglia, Director, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, 2010-2012, Universidade de São Paulo; Michel Misse, Sociologist, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

14:30 — 16:00 Re-balancing the city by design

Chairs:
Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; Soraya Silveira Simões, Deputy Director, Research, IPPUR, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Presentations

Equity by urban form and transport access: A comparative perspective

Philipp Rode, Executive Director and Senior Research Fellow, LSE Cities

Bogotá: Transport and justice

Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, 1998–2001

Visions of an integrated city: São Paulo

Fernando De Mello Franco, Secretary of Urban Development, City of São Paulo

Rebalancing London: investing in East London

Andy Altman, Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation, 2009–2012

Panel discussion

Rachel Coutinho Marques da Silva, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Adam Greenfield, Senior Urban Fellow, LSE Cities and Urbanscale, New York; Pablo Lazo, Associate Director, Masterplanning & Urban Design Leader, Arup, São Paulo; Justin McGuirk, Critic and author, London; Rahul Srivastava, Co-founder, URBZ

Open discussion

16:00 — 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 — 18:00 Retrofitting urban neighbourhoods

Chairs:
Júnia Santa Rosa, Director, Institutional Development and Technical Cooperation, National Housing Secretary, Ministry of Cities; Savvas Verdis, Senior Research Fellow, LSE

Presentations

Progressive planning: Medellín’s social urbanism

Alejandro Echeverri, Director, Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, and former General Manager of the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (EDU)

Re-integrating the American city

Richard D Baron, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, McCormack Baron Salazar

Regenerative planning: the Hamburg IBA programme

Uli Hellweg, CEO, IBA Hamburg GmbH

Investing in the favelas in Rio

Pedro Rivera, Director, RUA Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro

Panel discussion

Jørgen Eskemose Andersen, Associate Professor, Architect, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture; José Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911 SC, Mexico City, Professor of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Wagner Rebehy, Director, Urban Think Tank Brazil; Antônio Augusto Veríssimo, Chief of Staff, Municipal Housing Department, City of Rio de Janeiro

Open discussion

18:00 End of day one

18:00 Book launch ‘Underground Sociabilities’ & reception

19:00 Conference dinner

Friday 25 October 2013

09:00 — 09:05 Welcome

Alex Ellis, British Ambassador to Brazil

09:05 — 09:20 The art of designing cities

Chairs:
Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, Director, LSE Cities, LSE; Washington Fajardo, Adviser on Urban Affairs to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro

Keynote

Unfinished Cities

Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London

09:20 — 10:40 Mega-events: drivers of change?

Chairs:
Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, Director, LSE Cities, LSE; Washington Fajardo, Adviser on Urban Affairs to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro

Presentations

London 2012+

Tessa Jowell, UK Minister for the Olympics 2005–2010

Rio 2016+

Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, CEO, Municipal Olympic Company, Rio de Janeiro

The Netherlands 2028+

Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor to Secretary Shaun Donovan, Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington DC

Panel discussion

João Pedro Backheuser, Partner, BLAC Architecture; Fernanda Sánchez, Professor, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade Federal Fluminense; Antoni Vives, Deputy Mayor, City of Barcelona; Adam Williams, Associate Director, DP&E, AECOM; Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington DC, 1999-2007; CEO and Executive Director, Federal City Council of Washington DC

10:40 — 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 — 12:45 Designing Cityness

Chairs:
Fabiana Izaga, Vice-President, Institutional Relations, Brazilian Institute of Architects - Rio de Janeiro (IAB-RJ); Michael Kimmelman, Architectural Critic, The New York Times

Keynote

Integrating New York

Amanda Burden, Director, New York City Department of City Planning

Presentations

New ways of financing urban social housing in São Paulo

Silvio Torres, Secretary of Housing, State of São Paulo

Improving quality of life: the case of Antofagasta

Alejandro Gutiérrez, Executive Director, CREO Antofagasta, Antofagasta

Masterplanning in the contemporary city

Markus Neppl, Founding Partner, ASTOC Architects and Planners, Cologne

Panel discussion

Regina Bienenstein, Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense; Fernando De Mello Franco, Secretary of Urban Development, City of São Paulo; Denise Pinheiro Machado, Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Maria Olivia Recart, Vice President, BHP Billiton Chile; Paul Zimmerman, CEO, Designing Hong Kong

Open discussion

12:45 — 13:45 Lunch

13:45 — 15:30 Learning from Rio

Chairs:
Justin McGuirk, Critic and author, London; Julia Michaels, Journalist, RioReal Blog, Rio de Janeiro

Keynote

Extracting value from economic growth: the Rio perspective

Eduarda La Rocque, President, Institute Pereira Passos (IPP), Secretary of Finance, City of Rio de Janeiro, 2009–2012

Rebalancing the city

Designing Parque Madureira

Ruy Rezende, Architect and Director, Ruy Rezende Arquitetura

Revitalising favelas

Connecting Complexo do Alemão

Ruth Jurberg, Coordinator, PAC II Programme, State of Rio de Janeiro

Unlocking the economic potential of the favelas

Celso Athayde, President, Favela Holding, Rio de Janeiro

Building citizenship

Building citizenship through projects

Jailson de Sousa e Silva, Director, Observatório de Favelas

New pathways for social development

Sandra Jovchelovitch, Professor of Social and Cultural Psychology, LSE

Open discussion

Sérgio Besserman, Chairman, Technical Chamber of Sustainable Development of the City of Rio de Janeiro.; Paul Heritage, Professor of Drama and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London

15:30 — 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 — 17:25 Governing urban change

Chairs:
Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho, Director, Rio Imagem, City of Rio de Janeiro; Tony Travers, Director, LSE London, LSE

Statements

Carolina Tohá, Mayor of Santiago de Chile
Pedro Paulo Carvalho Teixeira, Chief of Staff, Mayor’s office, City of Rio de Janeiro
Per Ankersjö, Vice-Mayor of the City of Stockholm

Panel discussion

Amanda Burden, Director, New York City Department of City Planning
Tessa Jowell, UK Minister for the Olympics 2005–2010
Peter Eigen, Founder and Chairman Advisory Council, Transparency International, Berlin
Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington DC, 1999-2007; CEO and Executive Director, Federal City Council of Washington DC
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, 1998–2001

Open discussion

17:25 — 17:30 Closing remarks

Thomas Matussek, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society

17:30 End of Conference

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