The lecture seeks to highlight the impact of the housing sector on the development of cities and the attainment of the Sustainability Developments Goals (SDGs). It will also unveil the state of housing in Mexico and its opportunities and challenges for compliance with the 2030 Agenda.
AUDIO: Carlos Zedillo - "Good Housing Makes a Good City"
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This lecture will explore how a unique perspective on economic inequality, in this case using a drone, is vitally important to combat what has been described as "the defining challenge of our time".
AUDIO: Johnny Miller- "Unequal Scenes"
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The lecture shows the challenges and opportunities of participatory planning through a series of concrete experiences from the field.
AUDIO: Elisa Maceratini- "Participatory urban planning"
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The lecture focuses on introducing the fast-growing concept of tourism to economically less developed areas, also known as slum tourism, the ethical issues that it needs to deal with, its governance and the ways it may contribute to local development.
AUDIO: Ko Koens - "Slum Tourism"
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This lecture examines how precarious urban livelihoods in the informal economy can be transformed by innovative and rights-based approaches to urban policy, contributing to economic and social inclusion, and recovery in crisis-affected cities.
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AUDIO: Alison Brown - The Urban Informal Economy
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The Mobility of Care: Introducing Gender-Aware Concepts in Transportation Planning aims at providing a better understanding of travel patterns of women and men, by taking into account the travel implications of daily tasks performed by individuals with care responsibilities.
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AUDIO: Ines Sanchez de Madariaga - “Mobility of Care”
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This lecture will introduce listeners to the role of law (including legislation, rights, and jurisprudence) in influencing our lives in cities, focusing primarily on its benefits, but also how it can marginalize people.
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AUDIO: Thomas Coggin - The role of urban law in the New Urban Agenda
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With mounting globalisation, sprawling city-to-city connections, and an increasing role in global governance, it is critical for city leaders to understand and strategically orient their networking activities to open up the horizons of urban policy. Michele Acuto from University College London addresses this in the following lecture.
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Philipp Rode in this lecture presents the findings of the cities research programme of the Commission’s New Climate Economy (NCE) project which LSE Cities is co-leading. The overall aim of NCE is to provide independent and authoritative evidence on the relationship between actions which can strengthen economic performance and those which reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.
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Diana Mitlin from University of Manchester in this lecture argue that coproduction is an essential component of an inclusive urban agenda
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AUDIO: Diana Mitlin - Coproducing for sustainable cities
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