Planning the city: market or state?

February 2011

Alan Hudson will focus on the impact of state led planning at Shanghai Expo in 2010, whilst the second speaker will focus on the planned legacy of the London Olympics 2012.

Starting off with Alan talking about the way a dynamic economy can create cities, albeit with an authoritarian state force, and teasing out the impact on development as a basis for democracy. Then to have the second speaker talk about the legacy of Olympics 2010 and contrast the small scale impact, with hopefully a fruitful discussion of role of politics in UK and where the impact of a weak economy sits with that, perhaps using the example of proposed minimum pricing for alcohol in the Greater Manchester area.

We'll all then try and unravel how cities can best be developed.