THE CONFERENCES
The principle aim of The Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders. The two-year conference series is the first step towards the creation of an ongoing forum which will debate and influence how the city is studied, planned and managed. The series will operate as a mobile laboratory, testing and sampling the urban condition using a combination of expert presentations, site visits and opportunities for informal information exchanges. These results will then be analyzed, searching for regional patterns and global similarities that will shape the future development of cities and the processes that sustain them.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
Each Urban Age conference will last for two days, with one half-day dedicated to visiting key sites of change and development within the host city.
Four core themes on will be the focus in each conference reflecting the basic human activities of living, working, playing and moving (life in the city).
Labour and work places
Public life and urban space
Mobility and transport
Housing and neighbourhoods
In addition, a group of broader, overarching issues (governance) will be investigated. These are:
Investment and economic development
Planning and legal structures
Sustainability and energy consumption
Political economy and networking cities
In order to address local and global concerns, urban experts representing each core research theme, and a group of urban practitioners including architects, politicians, engineers and planners will travel to all conferences, accumulating knowledge and comparative experiences through participation in each conference throughout the two-year period.
The presentations and subsequent publications will employ different modes of translating information from the two-dimensional geographic scale to the three-dimensional urban design scale, thus facilitating dialogue between academics, policymakers and practitioners. A key objective of the Urban Age conference series is to identify what trends and policies are failing to respond to local needs, resulting in the continued propagation of dysfunctional urban areas across the globe. In addition to the academic experts, a group of urban practitioners, comprised of politicians, architects and engineers, will be present at each conference, supporting and challenging the notions put forth by the academics and local participants.
CONFERENCE OUTPUTS
While the primary objective of the Urban Age conference series is to shape urban practices by engaging the various actors in a meaningful dialogue, lessons learned from discussions will challenge many existing policies and modes of operation. At the conclusion of each conference, the travelling experts will compose reflection papers, based on responses to issues raisedh require concentration to work, and back-offices, which are cheaper to disperse. This pattern is seen throughout the developed world, and is shaping the structure of many emerging cities in the developing world. The question for architects, urbanists and mayors is how to plan and manage infrastructure and development without constraining growth, while simultaneously promoting the social and economic benefits of proximity and complexity in compact urban systems. The aspirations are clear, but the actual impact on the social economy of urban communities has yet to be understood. The process of investigation and exchange of The Urban Age will provide clues to the next generation of urban policymakers to better understand these interrelationships and successfully connect the physical arrangement of the built environment to sustainable growth.
The core knowledge areas have been designed to address these que'color:black'>Key Expert: Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sorbonne
Mobility and transport
Key Expert: Hermann Knoflacher, TU Vienna
Housing and urban neighbourhoods
Key Expert: Ricky Burdett, LSE
CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATIONS
Six cities, representing urban regions in each of the major continents, have been chosen as partner cities for the Urban Age conference series:
Opening Conference, North American Regional Conference
Shanghai | July 2005
Asian Regional Conference
European Regional Conference, European Mayors Conference
African Regional Conference
Central/South American Regional Conference
Final
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