Philipp Rode is Executive Director of 禁漫天堂 Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at 禁漫天堂. He is co-director of the 禁漫天堂 Executive MSc in Cities and co-convenes the 禁漫天堂 Sociology Course on ‘City Making: The Politics of Urban Form’.
As researcher, consultant and advisor he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design at 禁漫天堂 since 2003.
The focus of his current work is on institutional structures and governance capacities of cities and on sustainable urban development, transport and mobility.
He is co-directing the cities workstream of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and has co-led the United Nations Habitat III Policy Unit on Urban Governance. He has previously led the coordination of the chapters on Green Cities and Green Buildings for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Green Economy Report.
Dr Rode is Executive Director of the Urban Age Programme and since 2005 organised Urban Age conferences in over a dozen world cities bringing together political leaders, city mayors, urban practitioners, private sector representatives and academic experts.
He manages the Urban Age research efforts and recently co-authored Towards New Urban Mobility: The case of London and Berlin (2015), Cities and Energy: Urban morphology and heat energy demand (2014), Going Green: How cities are leading the green economy (2012) and Transforming Urban Economies (2013).
He has previously worked on several multidisciplinary research and consultancy projects in New York and Berlin and was awarded the Schinkel Urban Design Prize 2000.
Expertise: architecture; built environment; cities and climate change; city design; global cities; global urbanisation; green economy; low carbon economy; public space; strategic planning;transport; urban age; urban governance; urban mobility; urban policy; urban regeneration; urban resilience; urban sustainability; urban technology; urbanism
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