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URBAN AGE ISTANBUL CONFERENCE — 4-6 November 2009
The next stage of Urban Age's ten city investigation focuses on Istanbul.
Urban Age Istanbul Newspaper now available: English | Türkçe
Urban Age Istanbul City survey now available for download
From 4-6 November, the Urban Age Istanbul Conference gathered over 400 people together to explore the vast and complex challenge of contemporary city making and the interconnected issues of the impact of the global economic condition on world cities, the effect of climate change on urban sustainability and the role of urban design in creating socially cohesive environments. Over 100 innovators of urban change from 15 countries, half a dozen mayors, renowned scholars and authors side-by-side with architects and developers leading major urban regeneration projects around the globe offered presentations about urban transformations and policies, urban pasts and futures. Read more...
Deutsche Bank Chairman Josef Ackermann and LSE Director Howard Davies announced the creation of LSE Cities, an international centre for urban excellence, with an endowment of £1 million from Deutsche Bank each year over a period of five years. Architect Richard Rogers joined to celebrate this new initiative aimed at improving the lives of people in cities across the world. LSE Cities, located in the Department of Sociology, started on 1 January 2010 and is directed by Ricky Burdett, LSE Professor in Architecture and Urbanism. Read more...
The third Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award went to Barış İcin Müzik (Music for Peace), an urban intervention in the form of a community music project located in Edirnekapi, one of Istanbul’s most disadvantaged inner-city neighbourhoods. It was presented in İstanbul, Turkey, on the evening of 4 November 2009. Read more... (Türkçe.)
17 essays and detailed research provide the current and historical context to reflect on, debate and discuss the social, economic, environmental and spatial configurations of Istanbul.
Read the articles online or download newspaper: English | Türkçe.
Urban Age and the Arkitera Architecture Center initiated an innovative spatial study among five young architecture firms in Istanbul. The results are creative and provocative city solutions to Istanbul’s pressing urban issues.
Click here to read Ömer Kanıpak's discussion of the projects and to download presentations and videos.
Urban Age announces the launch of The Endless City
The Urban Age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society
New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin - illustrated by photos, graphics, data and essays
Published by Phaidon Press - released 12 March 2008