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Europe’s cities and nations have long been uneasy partners. As the challenges of the 2020s mount — from political polarisation to aging populations to climate change — relations between urban and national governments in Europe are coming under increasing pressure. City leaders seem ever more ready to take a stand against national governments on questions like housing policy (Lisbon), LGBT rights (Italy), public finances (Paris), or democracy (Hungary and Poland).

This event asks how urban-national political relationships have evolved in Europe in recent decades; what new tensions and alliances are emerging; and what role cities can play in shaping the direction of national and continental politics.

Ben Rogers, Director of the European Cities Programme at LSE Cities, will be joined by Aziza Akhmouch, Head of Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development at the OECD and Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE, to reflect on the shifting balance of power between European cities and nations, and what this means for Europe’s future.

Growing Apart: cities, nations and the future of Europe
Image: photo by Külli Kittus on Unsplash

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Event Type(s) Talks and Debates
Admission / Cost FREE

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LSE Marshall Building More Info

Address: 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3LY
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Public Transport Holborn

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LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science

About LSE Cities is an international centre that investigates the complexities of the contemporary city. It carries out research, graduate and executive education, outreach and advisory activities in London and abroad. Extending LSE’s century-old commitment to the understanding of urban society, LSE Cities investigates how complex urban systems are responding to the pressures of growth, change and globalisation with new infrastructures of design and governance that both complement and threaten social equity and environmental sustainability.
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