Ove Arup Foundation

LSE lecture series

Please note that the third lecture in the Ove Arup Foundation-funded London School of Economics lecture series, scheduled for 10 May 2011, has been cancelled.

Preparations for a replacement lecture are underway, and will be announced here. 

The purpose of the series is to tackle the disproportionate impact cities have on global carbon emissions, and to explore sustainable ways of transforming the ecological performance of the complex urban environment.

Further details of the lecture and series are available through emailing  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The inaugural lecture, ‘Urban Technologies and the Environment’ was delivered by Peter Head, director of Planning Plus, Arup, and investigated the retrofitting of old cities for a sustainable future. An audio file of this lecture is also available on our Events page.

The second lecture of the series, 'Climate Change: The City Solution', was delivered by Ritt Bjerregaard, Mayor of Copenhagen from 2006-09. For an audio file of this lecture, visit our Events page.