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The
Urban Age bulletin has been designed
to provide information on our activities
and events as the Urban Age project
enters its fourth year. It complements
our website (www.urban-age.net)
and ongoing research on world cities
featured in films, conference newspapers
and other publications. In 2008 we
will focus our research on South America
with a series of workshops and a major
conference in São Paulo, Brazil’s
economic powerhouse and one of the
largest and most complex cities in
the world. We hope you find the contents
of the bulletin of interest and a
useful way of keeping in touch with
the Urban Age. |
Ricky
Burdett
Director, Urban Age
Centennial Professor
in Architecture and Urbanism
London School of Economics |
Wolfgang
Nowak
Managing Director
Alfred Herrhausen Society |
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MUMBAI,
INDIA, 1-3 NOVEMBER 2007
Politics. Practice. Theory. The seventh Urban Age
conference weaving the intersection of these three
pillars of urban society attracted over 350 delegates
from India and across the world. Mayors, governors
and chief ministers from Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai
joined academics, urbanists, business and city leaders
from Bogota, Singapore, Johannesburg, New York City,
Washington DC, London and São Paulo to discuss
the future of cities and their responses to the challenges
of climate change, urban inequality and civic participation. Read more...
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Mumbai skyline © Chirodeep Chaudhuri
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A crowded road in
Crawford Market
© Chirodeep Chaudhuri
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IMAGE
GALLERY
Photographic highlights from the conference. Click
here to view...
Photographic highlights of Mumbai. Click
here to view...
REFLECTIONS
Returning to Mumbai for the first time in 20 years,
Deyan
Sudjic, the director of the Design Museum in London,
offers a lyrical documentation of India’s economic
command and control centre.
An urban dialogue on the visions and positions for
Mumbai by Suzi
Hall, PhD candidate from the Cities Programme
at the LSE.
Click here
for the full conference programme and video presentations.
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EXCERPTS
'How
can we do no harm in urban design? How can we
not make inequality worse by the things we design?'
Richard Sennett explains how to make our cities more
resistant to the pressures of inequality.
Are
cities planned in India? According to KC Sivaramakrishnan,
‘It would be very easy to bring this discussion
to a close and say that cities are not planned, one
minute silence in the honour of planning, end of session.
Neighbourhoods are planned, buildings are planned,
shopping malls are planned, facilities for sports
are planned, cities as cities are not planned and
they have not been planned for some time.’
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Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of
Bogota © Robert Weiland
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The
conflict for space. Enrique Peñalosa describes
the conflict for space and funds between cars, infrastructure
and social infrastructure such as schools, libraries,
hospitals and parks. ‘If we really want to solve
the problems of the poor we have to make a very critical
political decision and decide that we are not going
to make more and more highways every time we have
a traffic jam.’
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Rich
city and poor citizens. Suketu Mehta declares
that no city as rich as Mumbai should treat its citizens
so poorly. ‘I call it the maximum city in my
book but I’m afraid that the progress we’ve
made in the last decade has been minimum.’
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Suketu Mehta, Author © Robert Weiland
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PUKAR
hosted Saskia Sassen for a public lecture in Mumbai
on globally connected cities.
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Award Winner: Mumbai Waterfronts Centre
© PK Das
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THE
DEUTSCHE BANK URBAN AGE AWARD
Two of Mumbai’s most successful urban projects
were awarded a shared prize of $100,000 by Dr. Josef
Ackermann, Chairman of the Managing Board at Deutsche
Bank, Dr. Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and SM
Krishna, Governor of the State of Maharashtra on 1
November, 2007. Read
more…
The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award recognises alliances
of shared responsibility between residents, companies,
non-governmental organizations, academic institutions,
and local and state agencies which work together to
improve the living conditions of urban communities.
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DATA
Urban
Age research helps to better understand the variety
of streetscapes and urban form. A comparative analysis
of various global cities follows.
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Urban
India
National, state, metropolitan and municipal data on
Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore.
RESEARCH SEMINAR
In preparation for the Urban Age India conference,
the London School of Economics hosted an interdisciplinary
PhD
seminar convened by Richard Sennett and Gerald
Frug this past June with Harvard Law School, MIT and
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Urban housing in Mumbai
© CRIT
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HOUSING
STUDY
As part of Urban Age’s year-long focus on urbanisation
in India, the Collective Research Initiatives Trust
(CRIT) was commissioned to survey over 20
housing typologies that define the historic and
suburban fringe of Mumbai.
TRANSPORT FILMS
Video clips from a day-in-the-life commuting
in Mumbai.
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THE
ENDLESS CITY TO BE RELEASED MARCH 2008
Urban Age has a forthcoming book, The
Endless City, published by Phaidon. The Endless
City is edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic and
explores how the shape of our cities affects the future
of our planet and the lives of over three billion
urban dwellers.
NEWS
Foreign
Policy magazine to feature Urban Age research
in January 2008.
EVENTS
Urban Age Director Ricky Burdett addressed the future
of cities during Art Basel Miami Beach. Read
more...
Upcoming: A Blueprint for American
Prosperity by Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy
Program at Brookings Institution, on 27 February in
London. Katz argues that the US needs a new national
agenda to give cities there the tools and rules they
need to prosper. Co-hosted by the Centre for Cities
and the LSE. Read
more...
REPORTS
ArchPlus
Urban Age India Edition, November 2007.
Philipp Rode interactive interview
on 'Megacities', German Public Broadcaster ZDF (in
German only). Read
more...
Philipp Rode on the C40 Conference
in New York City, May 2007. Read
more...
FUTURE URBAN AGE CONFERENCES
Urban Age South America, 5 and 6 December 2008
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Urban Age Eastern Mediterranean, November 2009
Istanbul, Turkey
Urban Age Worldwide Summit, Spring 2010
Berlin, Germany
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