City Reformers Group: October 2008
Transforming cities across Europe
The fourth network meeting of the LSE/CASE City Reformers Group took place over Monday 20-Wednesday 22 October, 2008.
The
agenda is available in PDF format, with links to some of the presentations. Alternatively you can download or view the presentations from the list below.
Session 1: Retooling for growth - An American perspective
- The Restoring Prosperity Initiative - Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
Slides in PDF Format 
- Weak Market Cities: US and Europe: what can be learned? - Greg Clark, Advisor on City & Regional Development, CLG, UK Gov.
Slides in PDF Format
Session 2: Transforming European cities
Session 3: Cities in the Big Picture
- Belfast's Infrastructure Gaps - Marie-Thérèse McGivern, Belfast City Council
Slides in PDF Format
- Is land reclamation and residential appeal the top priority? Or new enterprises - Stephan Muzika, EPORA, Saint-Etienne
Slides in PDF Format
- Cities within regional and national frameworks - Phil Roberts, Creative Sheffield City Development Company
Slides in PDF Format
- Will recovering German cities hold onto new jobs? - Oliver Weigel, German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building & Urban Affairs
Slides in PDF Format
- Economic development in Greater Baltimore - Brad McDearman, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore
Slides in PDF Format
Session 4: City Stories - what really works in poorer neighbourhoods
- San Salvario urban renewal agency, Torino - Andrea Bocco, San Salvario Development Agency, Torino
Slides in PDF Format
- Examples from Bremen Gröpelingen and Osterholz-Tenever - Jörn Ehmke, Urban Development Agency (GfS), Bremen
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- Regeneration and synchronised swimming: a case study in Belfast - Roy Adams, Entity Partnerships, Belfast
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Session 5: Climate change will have a major impact on cities - are they doing enough
- An urban agenda to tackle climate change - Philipp Rode, LSE/Urban Age
Slides in PDF Format
- Sprawl & Re-urbanisation in shrinking city-regions - Dieter Rink, UFZ
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- Climate Change - at last we are waking up - Stephen Muers, Office for Climate Change, DEFRA
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- The City of Turin renews itself with... energy! - Gianfranco Presutti, Urban II Project, Torino (unable to attend the meeting)
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- Urban Sprawl and Reurbanisation under the conditions of shrinkage - Dieter Rink, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig
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- Climate Change and Rust-belt Cities - Lavea Brachman, Greater Ohio
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