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LSE Housing, LSE Cities and Joseph Rowntree Foundation Lecture, Debate and Book Launch:
Phoenix Cities - surviving financial, social and environmental turmoil in Europe and the US?

Published/Broadcast 12 February 2010

Date: Tuesday 16th March 2010 18.00-19.45
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
Cost: The event is free but a ticket is required
For tickets and further information please see:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100316t1800vSZT.aspx, or contact Anna Tamas, Email: a.tamas@lse.ac.uk.

Summary:

This lecture and debate mark the launch of a new book Phoenix Cities: The fall and rise of great industrial cities.
  • Lord Richard Rogers, international prize-winning architect, will offer his vision what the urban renaissance means for the 21st century;
  • Bruce Katz, Head of the Metropolitan Program and Vice-President of the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, will report on the future of divided US cities in Obama’s America;
  • Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics will outline the dramatic decline, turnaround and prospects of seven struggling European cities;
  • Julia Unwin, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, will round-up the event.
This event will debate where next for Phoenix Cities, given the economic shocks, the pressures of climate change and the social inequalities that sharply divide struggling cities. A panel of city reformers from European cities will give their reactions to these questions and Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics, will Chair the lecture.

For tickets and further information please see:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100316t1800vSZT.aspx, or contact Anna Tamas, Email: a.tamas@lse.ac.uk. Phoenix Cities will be available to purchase at the event at a discounted rate of £20. Registration and refreshments will be from 5.15pm and a reception will follow the event 7.45-8.30pm.

For more details please see the Phoenix Cities flyer (in Adobe PDF format)