New York Conference Programme | 25-26 February 2005

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FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY

OPENING SESSION   09.00-09.30

Welcome

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE
Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue

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An agenda for the city: The Urban Age project | 10 min

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

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Civility and urban space | 15 min

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU

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NEW YORK AND LONDON   09.30-10.45

Two models of the metropolis

Chair: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

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Understanding the city: Socio-economic trends and spatial pattern

Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE | 15 min

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Empowering the city: Legal structures and political power | 15 min

Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

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Working in the city: Local economies in a global environment | 15 min

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago

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Designing the city: The architecture of identity | 15 min

Deyan Sudjic, Architectural critic, The Observer

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DEBATE

open discussion | 15 min

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LABOUR MARKET AND WORK PLACES   11.00-12.45

Do jobs build cities or do cities build jobs?

Chair: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

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Opening statement

Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics,

TU Hamburg

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PROPOSITIONS

New media networking and manufacturing in dense urban environments | 15 min

Susan Christopherson, Professor, Cornell University

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Building typologies of the economy of change | 15 min

Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

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RESPONSES

Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance | 5 min

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Frank Duffy, Founder, DEGW, London and New York | 5 min

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Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology, CUNY | 5 min

Jonathan Rose, Principal, Jonathan Rose Companies LLP | 5 min

DEBATE

open discussion | 50 min

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LUNCH TALK   13.30-14.15

An urban age in a suburban country?

Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

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MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT   14.15-16.00

Travelling less, living better. Who pays?

Chair: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

Opening statement

Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna

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PROPOSITIONS

Making a transport strategy work for New York | 15 min

Robert E. Paaswell, Director, Institute for Urban Systems, City College of New York

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Financing urban transport | 10 min

Richard Ravitch, Principal, Ravitch Rice and Company

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Making places for movement | 15 min

Alejandro Zaera Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects

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RESPONSES

Katie Lapp, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation

Authority | 5 min

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Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association New York | 5 min

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Kathryn Wylde, President, Partnership for New York City | 5 min

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DEBATE

open discussion | 45 min

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DEBATE   16.15-17.45

Connecting urban governance and planning

Chair: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

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PANEL DISCUSSION | 60 min

Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington D.C.

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Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá

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Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE

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Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance

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Ester Fuchs, Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning, City of New York

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DEBATE

open discussion part one| 30 min part two

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SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY

PUBLIC LIFE AND URBAN SPACE   10.00-11.45

Feeling safe in the crowd

Chair: Tony Travers, London School of Economics                           

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Opening statement

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

PROPOSITIONS

Civilizing security in New York: A view from Europe | 10 min

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

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Crime currents in New York and the co-production of security | 15 min

Jeff Fagan, Professor of Law and Public Health, Columbia University

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Does space matter to public life? | 15 min

Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam

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RESPONSES

Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police | 5 min

Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá | 5 min

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John Mollenkopf, Professor of Sociology, CUNY | 5 min

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DEBATE

open discussion part one| 50 min

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HOUSING AND NEIGHBOURHOODS   12.00-13.30

Squeezing the middle

Chair: Tony Travers, London School of Economics

Opening statement

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

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PROPOSITIONS

Affordable housing, manufacturing and the artist community: Williamsburg Green Point Waterfront | 15 min

Shaun Donovan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development

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Integrating large institutions into fine grain urban neighbourhoods: Columbia University expansion | 15 min

Marilyn Taylor, Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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RESPONSES

Amanda Burden, Director, NYC Planning Department | 5 min

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Michael Sorkin, Michael Sorkin Studio, NYC| 5 min

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Nick Retsinas, Director, Joint Center of Housing Studies,             

Harvard University | 5 min

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Ron Shiffman, Co-Founder, Pratt Institute Center for Community

and Environmental Development | 5 min

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DEBATE

open discussion | 40 min


 

DEBATE   14.00-15.00

Towards an urban model

Chair: Deyan Sudjic, The Observer

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam

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Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, New York

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Alejandro Zaera Polo, Foreign Office Architects, London

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Open discussion

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CONCLUSIONS   15.00-16.00

New York is almost alright?
Towards a Programme for the Urban Age

Chair: Tony Travers, London School of Economics

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CONTRIBUTIONS

Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association New York

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Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago

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Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and NYU

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Daniel Rose, President, Rose Associates

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COMMENTS AND CLOSING REMARKS
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Friday 25 february

09.00 Opening Session

09.30 New York and London

11.00 Labour Market and Work Places

13.30 Lunch talk

14.15 Mobility and Transport

16.15 Debate

 


Saturday 26 February

10.00 Public Life and Urban Space

12.00 Housing and Neighbourhoods

14.00 Debate

15.00 Conclusions

 

 
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