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30/10/2009

Urban Age Istanbul Newspaper now available: English | Türkçe

19/10/2009

Urban Age Istanbul City survey now available for download

16/10/2009

Urban Age releases today the initial results from a commissioned city survey by Ipsos in Istanbul in preparation for the Urban Age Istanbul Conference in Istanbul, Turkey from 4-6 November 2009.

16/07/2009

Deutsche Bank Chairman Josef Ackermann and London School of Economics Director Howard Davies announced today the creation of LSE Cities, an international centre for urban excellence.

07/05/2009

'The Future of Cities: The World, The Nation, Philadelphia' with Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia, Ricky Burdett, Bruce Katz, Andy Altman and Alan Greenberger in Philadelphia, 14 May 2009.

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URBAN AGE ISTANBUL CONFERENCE

Urban Age Istanbul, NOVEMBER 2009

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 CREATES NEW INTERNATIONAL CENTRE AT LSE

LSE Cities established by Deutsche Bank

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...

DEUTSCHE BANK URBAN AGE AWARD

2009 Istanbul Award Winner

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.)

URBAN AGE RESEARCH

Urban Age Istanbul Newspaper

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 COLLABORATION

Arkitera Spatial Study – 5 Istanbul Architecture Teams

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.

THE ENDLESS CITY

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