Conference 'Barcelona Project: Leading the Way Out of Crisis?' (Paul Preston)

Thursday16 February 2012

 Launch of the books:                                                                                                                        

Ashes and Granite. Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath by 
Olivia Muñoz-Rojas (University of Westminster)                                              

Reconstructing Spain. Cultural Heritage and Memory after Civil War by Dacia VIejo-Rose (University of Cambridge)
Chair: Paul Preston         

Published by Sussex Academic Press / Cañada Blanch, 2011

Time: 18.00h.                                                                                                                                   

Place: LSE, Cowdray House, 1st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11, Portugal Street                                                                                                                                                    

POSTER (PDF)                                                                                                                                  

Information about the authors (PDF)


Wednesday 22 February 2012 

 Conference Barcelona Project: Leading the Way Out of the Crisis?     


                             

Programme:                                                                                                                                       

15.00-16.00 Workshop The return of the City-State: the future of democracy?            
Speaker: Antoni Vives (Barcelona's Deputy Mayor for Urban Habitat)                                   
Chair: Ian Gordon (Director of Spatial Economics Research Centre; Human Geography, LSE)
Place: LSE, Cowdray House, Portugal Street, 1st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11
 

16.30-17.30 Workshop Urbanism is dead, long live the City Protocol                               
Speaker: Vicente Guallart
(Barcelona's Chief Architect)                                                          
Chair: Ricky Burdett (Global Distinguished Professor, New York University; Director of LSE Cities and Urban Age).
Place: LSE, Cowdray House, Portugal Street, 1st floor, Cañada Blanch Room COW1.11
 

18.00-19.30 Public Lecture Leading the way out of the crisis? The Barcelona solution?
Speakers: Antoni Vives (Barcelona's Deputy Mayor for Urban Habitat) and Vicente Guallart 
(Barcelona's Chief Architect)

Chair: Paul Preston
Place: LSE, New Academic Building, Wolfson Theatre LG 0.1, Lincoln's Inn Fields