City Reformers Group: March 2011

Transforming cities across Europe

This LSE/CASE City Reformers Group took place over Monday 21st - Tuesday 22nd March 2011

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.

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Session 1: How are weak market cities responding to the economic crisis?

• Chair - Howard Davies
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• US cities - shifting to a different kind of economy? - Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
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• Response: How Bilbao and the Basque Country are affected by Spain's financial crisis - Juan Alayo, Bilbao Ría 2000.
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• Response: Progress and problems: Belfast's unique legacy and public underpinning - John McGrillen, Belfast City Council
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Session 2: Cities are carving out a new kind of future - how are they performing?

• Measuring progress and problems across the globe - Alan Berube, Brookings Institution
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• Progress and problems - Germany's special challenges and opportunities - Oliver Weigel, German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
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• Response: Learning from the UK League Table of Performance - Alexandra Jones, Centre for Cities, UK
  
  
• Progress and problems across the EU - Christian Svanfeldt, European Commission
  
  

Session 3: New thinking for old cities

• How ex-industrial cities can help the energy saving revolution - Tobias Timm, Proklima, Hanover
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• Response: How green investment can generate economic returns in cities - Dimitri Zenghelis, Cisco Climate Change Practice / LSE
  
  
• Why Lille has made sustainable development a clarion call - Mathieu Goetzke, Mairie de Lille
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• Response: New approaches to public action and social innovation - experiences from Northern Italy - Massimo Bricocoli, Politecnico di Milano
  
  

Session 4: Break out sessions

Breakout group 1: Social programmes and social enterprise

(Facilitator: Barbary Cook, Scribe: Laura Lane)

• Laura Moynahan, Sheffield
  
  
• Rose Secq, Lille
  
  
• Bert Provan, Communities and Local Government, UK
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Breakout group 2: Jobs, skills and enterprise

(Facilitator: Tony Travers, Scribe: Nicola Serle)

• Teresa Jolley, Kier Sheffield
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• Andreas Kaufmann, Leipzig
  
  
• Andrea Bocco, Torino
  
  

Breakout group 3: Urban renewal and retrofit under severe financial constraints

(Facilitator: Andrea Colantonio, Scribe: Isabella Kohlhaas-Weber)

• Dr. H.P. Schmitz-Borchert, Gelsenkirchen
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• Andy Topley, Creative Sheffield
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• Pedro Luis Emparanza, Bilbao
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Breakout group 4: Public finance and debt - cities

(Facilitator: Jörg Plöger, Scribe: Celine Kuklowsky)

• Bob Weissbourd, RW Ventures (US)
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• Oliver Weigel, Germany
  
  
• Juan Alayo, Bilbao
  
  
• Lee Adams, Sheffield City Council
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Session 5: Panel Discussion - How resilient are cities? How can cities survive the huge pressures and competition they now face?

Rising to the challenge

Chair: Ricky Burdett, LSE Cities

• New social challenges
  Barbary Cook, Belfast
  Thomas Kristen, Bremen
  
  
• Can cities cut CO2 by 30 per cent by 2020? How?
  Michael O'Doherty, Manchester City Council
  Philipp Rode, LSE Cities
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The economy of cities

Chair: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

• How cities can support new enterprises - Bob Weissbourd, RW Ventures
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• New approaches to the built environment - John Bradley, Kier and Mark Davy, Future City
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• New industries on the back of old: Sheffield's advanced manufacturing - Joe Anwyl, Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Park
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• Economic realities in Sheffield - Lee Adams, Sheffield
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