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Friday 24 February 2006
Location: National Museum of Art (MUNAL), Tacuba 8, Historic Centre
Wolfgang Nowak, Alfred Herrhausen Society
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science
Chair: Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Amanda Burden, Chair, City Planning Commission, New York City
Andy Altman, Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005 and Partner, LeftBank Development Company, New York
Ricky Burdett, Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London and Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science
José Serra, Mayor of Sao Paulo
open discussion | 15 min
Chair: José Luis Cortés Delgado, Director, Department of Architecture, Iberoamericana University
Gustavo Garza Villarreal, Academic Coordinator, Doctoral Programme in Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México
Enrique Norten, Director, Ten-Arquitectos
Néstor García Canclini, Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University
open discussion | 30 min
Chair: Diane Davis, Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jorge Gamboa de Buen, Director General, Grupo Danhos and Former Director for Urban Development, Government of the Federal District
Adrián Pandal, Director General, Mexico City Historic Centre Foundation
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, Hamburg University of Technology
Jenny Saltiel Cohen, Secretary, Secretariat of Economic Development, Government of the Federal District
Ricardo Legorreta, Director, Legorreta + Legorreta
Oscar Terrazas, Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University
René Coulomb Bosc, Coordinator, Masters Programme in Metropolitan Planning and Policy, Metropolitan Autonomous University
Frank Duffy, Principal, DEGW, London
open discussion | 30 min
Chair: Andy Altman, Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005 and Partner, LeftBank Development Company, New York
Guy Battle, founding partner, Battle McCarthy, London
Bernardo Navarro Benítez, Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University
Felipe Leal, Coordinator for Special Projects, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transportation Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Secretary, Secretariat of the Environment, Government of the Federal District
Aaron Dychter, Sub-Secretary of Transport, Secretariat of Communications and Transport, Mexican Government
Clara Salazar Cruz, Professor, El Colegio de México
Oscar Edmundo Díaz, Executive Director, Por el País que Queremos Foundation, Bogotá
Geetam Tiwari, TRIPP Chair and Associate Professor, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
open discussion | 30 min
Chair: Manuel Perló Cohen, Director, University Programme for Urban Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard University
Alejandro Encinas, Mayor, Federal District Enrique Peña Nieto, Governor, State of Mexico
José Luis Luege Tamargo, Secretary, Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexican Government Alfonso
Xavier Iracheta Cenecorta, Professor, El Colegio Mexiquense
Roberto Eibenschutz Hartman, Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University and Former Secretary of Urban Development and Housing, Government of the Federal District
open discussion | 30 min
Saturday 24 February 2006
Location: National Museum of Art (MUNAL), Tacuba 8, Historic Centre
Chair: Darren Walker, Director, Working Communities, Rockefeller Foundation
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá
Oscar Diaz
Rafael Viñoly, Principal, Rafael Viñoly Architects
Mario Schjetnan, Founding Partner, Grupo de Diseño Urbano
Benjamín González, Director, Fábrica de Artes y Oficios de Oriente
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Director, Centre for Urban Studies, Sorbonne
Néstor García Canclini, Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University
Marinela Servitje, President, Trust for the Chapultepec Park
René Jiménez Ornelas, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Javier Sordo Madaleno, President, Sordo Madaleno & Asociados
Deyan Sudjic, Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University
Guy Nordenson, Structural Engineer, New York City and Professor, Princeton University
open discussion | 30 min
Chair: Ed Soja, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science and University of California Los Angeles
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects
Pablo Benlliure, Vice Director, Urban Planning and Market Assessment, Desarrolladora Metropolitana A.C.
Elena Solís, Professor, Iberoamericana University and former General Director, Federal District's Housing Institute
Laura Itzel Castillo Juárez, Secretary, Secretariat of Urban
Development and Housing, Government of the Federal District
Arturo Mier y Terán, Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México
Georgina Sandoval, Director, Casa y Ciudad A.C. and Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University
Enrique Ortíz, President, Habitat International Coalition
Javier Sánchez, Founding Partner, Higuera & Sánchez
Darren Walker, Director, Working Communities, Rockefeller Foundation, New York
Andy Altman, Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005 and Partner, LeftBank Development Company, New York
open discussion | 30 min
Chair: Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, Hamburg University of Technology
Héctor Castillo Berthier, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
José Manuel Castillo Olea, Professor, Iberoamericana University
María Edith Pacheco Gómez, Professor, El Colegio de México
Geetam Tiwari, TRIPP Chair and Associate Professor, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Teddy Cruz, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Gareth Jones, Senior Lecturer in Development Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
Discussion
Chair: Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics
Deyan Sudjic, Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University
Guy Battle, founding partner, Battle McCarthy, London
Enrique Norten, General Director, Ten-Arquitectos
Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of
Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
and Political Science
Bernardo Riojas, President, Desarrolladora Metropolitana A.C.
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Professor of Political Science and American Studies, Director, Centre for Urban Studies, Sorbonne
Cassio Luiselli Fernández, Professor, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico City Campus
Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transportation Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Henry Davis, Founding Partner, Metrópoli 2025
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, Hamburg University of Technology
Larry vale, MIT
Amanda Burden
Oscar Diaz
Jose Luis Cortes
Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank
Ricky Burdett, LSE
11.00 Labour market and work places
16.15 Panel 01 - Metropolitan governance
09.00 Public life and urban space
11.00 Housing and urban neighbourhoods
