Social Impacts and Social Equity Issues in Transport - Workshop Series

Workshop 3: Housing and Sustainable Communities

Presentations

Session 1: Inequality and the impact on disadvantaged communities of concentrated poverty

• The impact on poor areas of poverty and social problems
  Ruth Lupton (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE)
  
  
• Learning from weak market cities, how poor areas develop at the margin
  Anne Power (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE)

Session 2: Transport, connectivity and accessibility in urban areas

• International perspectives on disadvantage - inequality in transport accessibility in Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Mumbai
  Philipp Rode (LSE Cities)
  
  
• Paying for public transport - local transport authorities facing funding cuts and rising energy costs
  Tony Travers (LSE London)
  
  
• What Transport for London is doing to improve connectivity in lower income parts of London
  Ben Plowden (Transport for London)

Session 3: Breakout workshops - How can lower income communities be better integrated to the wider city?

• Ben Plowden (Transport for London)
  
  
• Sarah Leeming (Sustrans)
  

• Mark Hackett (Forum for Alternative Belfast)
  
  
• Andrea Colantonio (LSE Cities / CASE)