Throughout 2020, the shape of the city – its buildings and open spaces – has taken centre stage in our experience of everyday life. Living in lockdown has confronted urban dwellers around the world with the limits of confined domestic environments yet reminded us of the benefits of a well-designed and accessible public realm.
Living together has been challenged as a concept and as a reality. How we spend time at home, on the street, and in the city over the next decade is being re-framed. How we re-calibrate urban centres where people can live, work and transact is open to debate.
This Urban Age Debate brings together prominent city-shapers and commentators who are committed to making cities more liveable, more democratic and more complex. Using images of recent projects in Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Moscow and London, architects and urbanists explore the deep connections between the design of public space and social inclusion as cities strive to become more humane, domestic, and home to diverse communities.
Speakers
• Elizabeth Diller | architect and partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)
• Rozana Montiel | founder and director of Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura
• Amanda Levete | principal, AL_A
• Suketu Mehta | writer, critic and urbanist
Chair
• Ricky Burdett | Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics, Director of LSE Cities, and co-founder of the Urban Age.
Hosted by LSE Cities, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the LSE School of Public Policy.
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