Mr Philipp Rode is Executive Director of the Urban Age research programme & Ove Arup Fellow at the Cities Programme. He co-convenes the Lent term Studio on City-making: The Politics of Urban Form. As researcher and consultant he is involved in interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design. Rode organised Urban Age conferences in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society in New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Berlin and Mumbai, bringing together political leaders, city mayors, urban practitioners, private sector representatives and academic experts. He manages the Urban Age research efforts, recently published the report ‘Integrated City Making’ (2008) and co-edits the programme’s newspaper and bulletin. Recent London-focused research includes ‘Density and Urban Neighbourhoods in London’ (2005) and ‘A Framework for Housing in the London Thames Gateway’ (2004). He has previously worked on several multidisciplinary research and consultancy projects in New York and Berlin and was awarded the Schinkel Urban Design Prize 2000.
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Contact details: Room V804, 020 7955 6483, p .rode@lse.ac.uk
Dr Savvas Verdis has been teaching in the Cities Programme for over a decade, first with Professor Richard Sennett and Professor David Frisby and currently with Philipp Rode in subjects that include urban politics and urban economics. He co-convenes the Lent term Studio on City-making: The Politics of Urban Form. His studies and research in architectural history at Cambridge University, political philosophy at the New School for Social Research and urban economics at University College London look at major economic and political reform projects in urban history. Savvas is also founder & CEO of rankdesk, the leading property ranking company for investors and businesses and a member of the Institute of Economic Development. He has been an Onassis Public Benefit Foundation scholar on two occasions and has previously managed a $50 million cultural framework for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
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Contact details: Room Y321, 020 7955 6313, s .verdis@lse.ac.uk