Conference programme
Friday, 14 November 2014
08:45 — 09:15 Welcome
Anshu Jain, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society and Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank
Craig Calhoun, President and Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
09:15 — 09:45 Inaugural address
Greg Clark MP, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, UK Government
09:45 — 10:00 Overview
Urban Age Conference: Governing Urban Futures
Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, LSE
10:00 — 10:45 Shaping urban futures
- Chair:
- Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, LSE
Presentations
Towards a global agenda for urban development
Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Ungovernable urban complexity
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU
City institutions for an urban age
Ed Glaeser, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
10:45 — 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 — 11:30 Keynote
Governing Tehran
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Mayor of Tehran
11:30 — 13:00 Urbanising government: devolving the state
- Chairs:
- Andy Altman, Senior Visiting Fellow, LSE Cities; Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs
Presentations
A voice for Urban India: Decentralising governance
K.C. Sivaramakrishnan, Chair, Centre for Policy Research
Deciding who decides
Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Panel discussion
Charles Correa, Architect; Vijai Kapoor, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi 1998 to 2004; Meenakshi Lekhi, Member of the Indian Parliament; Wolfgang Schmidt, State Secretary, City of Hamburg; Hilmar von Lojewski, Councillor for Urban Development, German Association of Cities
Open discussion
13:00 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:30 Inclusive governance: agency and disadvantage
- Chairs:
- Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, LSE; Jo Beall, Director, Education and Society, British Council
Presentations
Understanding the choices of the urban poor
Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics, MIT
Governance needs government: The case of African Cities
Sue Parnell, Professor, African Centre for Cities
Governing urban uncertainty
Austin Zeiderman, Assistant Professor of Urban Geography, LSE
Panel discussion
Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi; Adam Greenfield, Senior Urban Fellow, LSE Cities; Tikender Singh Panwar, Deputy Mayor of Shimla; Dunu Roy, Director, Hazards Centre
Open discussion
15:30 — 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 — 16:15 Keynote
Urban governance – but at what scale?
Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard University
16:15 — 17:45 Governing through partnerships
- Chairs:
- Andy Altman, Senior Visiting Fellow, LSE Cities; Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research
Presentations
Investment and infrastructure in Urban India
Arun Nanda, Chairman, Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd.
Governing resilience through partnerships: 100 Resilient Cities Programme
Michael Berkowitz, Managing Director, 100 Resilient Cities, Rockefeller Foundation
Delivering innovation in urban governance: The Mayors Challenge
James Anderson, Director, Government Innovation Programs, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Panel discussion
Ashwin Mahesh, Co-Founder, Mapunity; Narinder Nayar, Chairman, Bombay First; Sanjeev Sanyal, Global Strategist, Deutsche Bank; Sanjay Sridhar, Regional Director for South and West Asia, C40
Open discussion
17:45 End of day one
19:30 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award ceremony
Saturday, 15 November 2014
09:00 — 09:15 Day two introduction: from governance to planning
Shaping urban futures: The divergent roles of urban governments
Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, LSE
09:15 — 10:45 Governing land: managing urban expansion
- Chairs:
- Reuben Abraham, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute; Michael Cohen, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Presentations
The exponential growth in urban land
Karen C. Seto, Professor of Geography and Urbanization, Yale University
Land markets in India
Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
The Land question
Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Governing urban expansion in India and China
Solomon Benjamin, Associate Professor, IIT Madras
Open discussion
10:45 — 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 — 11:30 Keynote
Who owns the city?
Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
11:30 — 13:00 Strategic infrastructure: futures by design
- Chairs:
- José Castillo, Principal, Arquitectura 911 sc, Mexico City; Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, LSE
Presentations
New York’s Regional Rail: Overcoming the metropolitan dilemma?
Thomas K. Wright, Executive Director, Regional Plan Association, New York
The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor: Creating location
Amitabh Kant, Secretary for Industrial Policy, India and Chairman, Delhi- Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation
Open discussion
Presentations
Post-Sandy Rebuilding: Connecting infrastructures and re-design
Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor, Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force
London’s strategic infrastructure: What’s best for London?
Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, LSE
Open discussion
Presentations
Mumbai's flyovers, sealinks and freeways: Mobility or mayhem?
Madhav Pai, Director, EMBARQ India
The Delhi BRT Experience: 1994 to 2014
Geetam Tiwari, Professor of Transport Planning, IIT Delhi
Open discussion
13:00 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:40 Urban leaders' round table
- Chairs:
- Ricky Burdett, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, LSE; Sue Parnell, Professor, African Centre for Cities
Presentations
Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos
Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Cooperative Governance, South Africa
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1998-2001
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi 1998-2013
Panel discussion
15:40 — 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 — 17:45 Governing India's future: are cities getting smarter?
- Chairs:
- Darryl D'Monte, Journalist, Mumbai; Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Presentations
Better growth, better climate, better cities
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chair, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Addressing the many exclusions of the urban poor
Harsh Mander, Director, Centre for Equity Studies
A five-step plan for improving urban governance in India
Ireena Vittal, Strategic Consultant, Delhi
Policies for India's Urban Future: the 100 Smart Cities Programme
Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary for Urban Development, India
Panel Discussion
Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard University; Anumita Roychowdhury, Executive Director Research and Advocacy, Centre for Science and Environment; Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU; Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs
17:45 — 18:00 Closing remarks
Thomas Matussek, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society
18:00 End of conference
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