The Seventh Megacities Lecture
27 November 2003
ING House, Amsterdam
Megacities and the Welfare State
Prof. Richard Sennett
On 27 November 2003 professor Richard Sennett gave the seventh Megacities
Lecture. Sennett chairs The Cities Programma at the London School of Economics.
He specializes in research on cities, labour and the sociology of culture.
Some major publications: The Fall of Public Man (1977), The Conscience
of the Eye: Urban Design and the Social Life of Cities (1990), Flesh and
Stone: The Body and the City (1994). Respect: The Welfare State, Inequality,
and the City will appear this year.
From the Dutch perspective Arnold Reijndorp acted as a co-assessor. He
is an independent researcher on the cutting edge of urban studies and
town planning.
Mr. Roger van Boxtel, former Minister of Urban and Integration Policy,
chaired the evening.
The location of the seventh Megacities Lecture, The ING House, headoffice
of the ING Group, at the South-axis in Amsterdam, was provided by ING
Real Estate.
Publication 'Megacities and the Welfare State'
The publication 'Megacities and the Welfare State' contains crucial chapters
from three recent books by Richard Sennett, followed by the accompanying
paper by Arnold Reijndorp and also a number of short discussions about
respect and social sustainability from authors like Job Cohen, Andrée
van Es, Dirk Kloosterboer, Robert Kloosterman, Peter Noordanus, Janny
Rodermond and Ries van der Wouden.
The publication "Megacities and the Welfare State" is available
for 10,00 Euro (excluding mailing costs). The invoice will be included
with the shipping, unless you give in a separate invoice address.
Contact:
Stichting Megacities / Megacities Foundation
c/o S@M stedebouw & architectuurmanagement
Herengracht 60
1015 BP Amsterdam
TheNnetherlands
tel. (+31)20 - 4288888
fax. (+31)20 - 4288880
E-mail: megacities@samnet.nl
Lecture Files
(pdf unless otherwise stated,
except for the report on the evening, these files together are the content of the publication 'Megacities and the Welfare State)
Report on the evening by Olof Koekenbakker (html)
Introduction to Richard Sennett by Steef Buys
Excerpts from the work of Richard Sennet
Co-review By Arnold Reyndorp
Contributions
to the discussion by:
Job Cohen (Mayor of Amsterdam), Andrée van Es (Chair
of the Dutch Mental Health Care Association), Dirk Kloosterboer
(Policy Advisor, Confederation of Dutch Trade Unions), Robert Kloosterman
(Professor of Economic Geography/Planning AME Amsterdam Study Center for
the Metropolitan Environment University of Amsterdam). Peter Noordanus
(Chairman of the Council for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment),
Janny Rodermond (Director of The Netherlands Architecture Fund),
Ries van der Wouden (Sector Manager of the Netherlands Institute
for Spatial Research)
Curriculum Vitae
Some Sennett Links:
Profile
The Guardian 2001
Bo Grönlund: The Civitas of Seeing and the Design of Cities - on the urbanism
of Richard Sennett (1996) comment
interview
pdf (in Dutch) Tijdschrift voor de Sociale Sector, mei 2003
interview
(in Dutch) Groene Amsterdammer (mei 2003)
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