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Urban Age Bulletin | Issue 7: Winter 2009
The Urban Age Istanbul Conference brought together over 400 people for two days of intensive presentations, discussion and debate. Urban practitioners, academics and politicians explored the vast and complex challenge of contemporary city making. The $100,000 USD prize for the 3rd Annual Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award went to Barış İcin Müzik (Music for Peace), an urban intervention in the form of a community music project. The focus on Istanbul continues with Urban Age and Arkitera Architecture Center releasing the results of a collaborative spatial study with five young architectural teams. The Understanding Cities debate continued with Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen at the LSE, while the Cities and the Environment lecture series looks to Janette Sadik-Khan on creative transport solutions. We are looking forward to the New Year, and a new research centre at the LSE. As of 1 January 2010, LSE Cities begins its research, outreach and programming on pressing urban issues while continuing the collaborative and comparative innovations of the Urban Age, and furthering its commitment to public engagement and dialogue.
Ricky Burdett
Director, Urban Age
London School of Economics
Wolfgang Nowak
Managing Director
Alfred Herrhausen Society
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Urban Age Istanbul Conference, 4-6 November 2009
Over 400 people came together to explore the vast and complex challenge of contemporary city making and the interconnected issues of the impact of the global economic condition on world cities, the effect of climate change on urban sustainability and the role of urban design in creating socially cohesive environments. Read more.
Watch the conference online
Click here for the full conference programme with audio, video and PowerPoint presentations from Istanbul. Please note, for accessibility reasons in Turkey, our videos for this conference are on Metacafe, which has some advertising. We will be uploading all content to Youtube in due course.
Urban Age Istanbul conference press coverage
Read what others had to say about the conference.
Image Gallery
Click here for photographic portrait of urban life in Istanbul.
Click here for photographs from the conference.
Istanbul: City of intersections
17 essays and detailed research provide the current and historical context to reflect on, debate and discuss the social, economic, environmental and spatial configurations of Istanbul.
The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Winner
Winning project: Music For Peace
The third Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award went to Barış İcin Müzik (Music for Peace), an urban intervention in the form of a community music project located in Edirnekapi, one of Istanbul’s most disadvantaged inner-city neighbourhoods.
Istanbul Award Jury:
- Ricky Burdett, Jury Chair, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics
- Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, Chair, Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association
- Caglar Keyder, Professor, Sociolgy, Bogazici University, Istanbul
- Behic Ak, Cartoonist, Architect, Istanbul
- Enrique Norten, architect, TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York City
- Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1997-2006, Washington, D.C.
- Han Tumertekin, Architect, Mimarlar Design, Istanbul
Related:
The City Solution: Transport – Spring 2010, LSE
In a new collaboration with the Ove Arup Foundation, the Urban Age presents the second lecture of the Cities and the Environment lecture series. Janette Sadik-Khan, Transport Commissioner for the City of New York will explain how creative public transport solutions can address the environmental impact of cities and improve the quality of urban life.
Related:
Cities, Design and Climate Change – 17 November, LSE
Chair Jonathan Porritt guided the evening discussion on climate change from urban systems theory with Saskia Sassen to a renewed emphasis on the sociology of consumption in urban spaces by Richard Sennett.
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Arkitera Spatial Study – 5 Istanbul Architecture Teams
Urban Age and the Arkitera Architecture Center initiated an innovative spatial study among five young architecture firms in Istanbul. The results are creative and provocative city solutions to Istanbul’s pressing urban issues. Read more.
The DNA of Cities: Urban Age Istanbul Data
An overview about urban trends in Istanbul in a comparative context with other world cities, including New York, Shanghai, London, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Berlin, Mumbai and São Paulo. By investigating differing patterns of urban density, transport and governance, together with a wide range of social and economic indicators, the information provides unique insight into the DNA of cities today. Read more.
Urban Age Reflections
Jose Serra, Governor of São Paulo, offers his thoughts on the Urban Age conference series, and the importance of a continued interdisciplinary and international dialogue. Read more.
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director of the Center for Urban Studies at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne, reflects on the impact of layers of history and urban change on modern day urban issues. Read more.
Rick Rubens, Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, offers a rigorous review of the Urban Age Istanbul conference, presentations and events. Read more.
LSE Cities Launch, 1 January 2010
LSE Cities Launch Event
From 1 January 2010, LSE Cities, an international centre for urban excellence supported by Deutsche Bank, will begin its investigation into pressing urban issues of global significance. Read more.
“Cities should be for people, not cars”, Darryl D’Monte
Denver, San Francisco and Seoul are demolishing their freeways and highways and attempting to return their cities to their people, not their cars, says Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá and founder of the BRTS in his city, advising India to learn from the mistakes of these cities. Read more.
Richard Sennett wins 2010 Spinozalens prize
Urban Age Advisor and Professor Richard Sennett of the LSE and NYU, is winner of the 2010 Spinozalens prize. Read more.
Urban Age Advisor Amanda Burden wins prize
New York City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden is the 2009 Laureate of the ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for visionaries in urban development. Read more.
Urban Age Advisor Amanda Burden wins prize
Urban Age Advisor and former Mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa, wins the 2009 Göeborg Award for sustainable development. Read more.
"What can we do to make the lives of billions more equitable?", ArtMag
An interview with Ricky Burdett on the Future of Megacities. Read more.
Enrique Peñalosa wins Göteborg Award
Urban Age Advisor and former Mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa, wins the 2009 Göteborg Award for sustainable development. Read more.