Growing or Shrinking Cities: Does Size Really Matter?
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Liechtenstein-Hayek-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheWhat are the problems and challenges that growing and shrinking cities have to face? What are the reasons for growth or shrinkage? Which measures should be introduced in that regard?
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Professor Anne POWER
Professor of Social Policy and Head, LSE Housing and Communities, London School of Economics and Political Science, London
| 1970-1979 | Community Organiser, Inner London, UK |
| 1983-1993 | National Government Advisor, Priority Estates, UK |
| 1998-2008 | Deputy Director, CASE, LSE, London |
| Since 1996 Professor of Social Policy and Head of LSE Housing and Communities, LSE, London | |
| Since 1997 Government advisor on sustainable development, low income communities, inner cities, race relations etc. | |
| Since 2006 Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution, Washington DC, US |
Mag. phil. Angelika FITZ
Director, Architekturzentrum Wien - The Austrian Architecture Museum
| As curator she has realised, inter alia, projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, for European Capital of Culture Linz 2009, Architecture Center Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Secession and the European Union-India Economic Cross Cultural Programme | |
| 1998-2005 | Several cultural projects in Southeast Asia |
| 2003 | , 2005 Commissioner of the Austrian Contributions to the Architecture Biennale in Sao Paulo |
| 2012-2016 | Projects "We-Traders. Swapping Crisis for City"; "Actopolis. The Art of Action"; "Weltstadt. Who creates the city?" |
| since 2017 | Director, Vienna Centre of Architecture - The Austrian Architecture Museum |
