LSE Cities

28/03/2024

Do you work for a city government? Would you like to improve the lives of your youngest citizens?

The Urban95 Academy is a fully sponsored leadership programme open to all municipalities who want to learn how to design and deliver better cities for babies, toddlers and their caregivers.

Find out more about the programme and how to complete a successful application at our online information and FAQ webinar.

Tuesday 9 April
14:00–15:00 BST
Register to join ▶ https://lse.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkf-igrT8jHdItWQFGlf1aR-JGII6kobow #/registration

Learn more about the programme on the Urban95 Academy website https://www.urban95academy.org/home

26/03/2024

"Our need to house people – a need that may be predominantly driven by climate migration sooner than we think – is contributing heavily to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. This will increase the severity of the climate crisis and drive further climate migration, which will, in turn, create further need for housing. In most cases, every time we build a house, we are making this situation worse."

Read more in Modern Housing: an environmental common good a new Council on Urban Initiatives paper by Mariana Mazzucato and Dan Hill

https://councilonurbaninitiatives.com/resources/modern-housing-an-environmental-common-good

25/03/2024

The Urban95 Academy brings together practical insights from urban design, behavioural science and systems thinking to help municipal leaders initiate child-sensitive changes in their cities.

The Academy offers a seven-week, fully sponsored, online-course, exploring how the fundamental elements of urban life, such as streets, transportation, and air quality, impact the life outcomes of young urban dwellers, and how informed social and spatial interventions can have positive impacts both for young children and their carers as well as for society more widely.

At the end of the online course, ten cities, with promising ideas for local challenges facing young children and caregivers, are selected to come to London for an all-expenses-paid week of intensive workshops, and site visits to hone their strategy for implementation.

Apply now (deadline 30 April) to join this amazing growing network of committed cities worldwide sharing knowledge about designing more equitable and sustainable cities that support the needs of young children.



https://www.urban95academy.org/

24/03/2024

In case you missed last week's public event that we hosted with the Department of Media and communications from The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE, you can listen to it now on the LSE Player.

Myria Georgiou launched her new book and discussed with the panel how life in digital cities is changing what it means to be human?

Our panel investigates the dynamic workings of technology and power in the city from a transnational and comparative perspective as illustrated in Myria Georgiou’s book, Being Human in Digital Cities. They discuss the the contradictory claims and struggles for the future of digital cities and thei...

23/03/2024

A new report by Transport & Environment finds that transport is becoming the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe with road transport making up half the sectors emissions.

Philipp Rode from LSE Cities is currently working with colleagues across Europe on research that explores what a fair transition might look like in urban mobility and builds on the sufficiency principles to change mobility habits through individual mobility budgets.

He feels that it is unlikely that technology alone will help given potent rebound effects of any efficiency gains and that eventually questions of sufficiency will have to be addressed. Given the relative lack of progress, increasingly polarising political debate and urgent requirement for change, his recent paper advocates for a more direct and open engagement with a sufficiency turn in urban transport. And that, most importantly, fundamental questions about a fair distribution of remaining emissions and finite street space within the transport sector will have to be considered.

You can read the full paper on the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy website: https://jccpe.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jccpe-2023-0006

You can read Transport & Environment report on their website: https://transport2024.transportenvironment.org/sot/index.html

You can find out more about our MyFairShare project and access a range of resources from the project website:
https://www.myfairshare.eu/

22/03/2024

Adonis Ducksworth, Senior Transportation Advisor to the Mayor and his team from the City of Seattle in the USA attended the Urban95 Academy residence week at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in July 2023. In the short film below Adonis reflects on how the opened his eyes to a whole new way of doing things and armed him with new tools and ideas to take home and tackle some of the cities age old problems.

To find out more about this programme and register to join, visit the academy's website https://www.urban95academy.org/

19/03/2024

Calling all municipal leaders worldwide who want to learn how to make their cities more child-friendly. The fully sponsored helps mayors and local government employees understand how their work impacts early childhood development.

Bernard van Leer Foundation
Register⤵
https://www.urban95academy.org/

18/03/2024

Join us tonight at 6.30pm (in-person or online) to hear a panel of experts discuss questions around the politics and ethics of digital and to find out how life in digital cities is changing what it means to be human.

The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE LSE Media
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6.30pm Mon 18 March | Sara Alsherif, Ayona Datta, Myria Georgiou, Matt Mahmoudi | Registration Required | Free public event at LSE

17/03/2024

This week the Council on Urban Initiatives launched a new discussion paper 'Modern housing: an environmental common good' by Dan Hill & Mariana Mazzucato. It is the third in a series of publications focusing on housing.

Read and download all three ▶ https://councilonurbaninitiatives.com/

16/03/2024

The estimates that 40% of the continent’s population live in cities, and 75% in urban areas (cities, towns and suburbs). If Europe’s cities are so important, how can we best empower and support them in tackling the challenges they face?

Blog from EUROPP - European Politics and Policy at LSE

Europe’s cities are the key to its future, yet they face huge and mounting challenges. Ben Rogers explores alternative ways to empower and support them and makes the case for investing more into bu…