 Welcome to this second Urban H10 global debate, I hope everyone has found the seat so far so welcome again and Yeah, this is the second Urban H10 global debate here at the LSE. We have prepared a series of five global debates we had the first one last Thursday with Nick Stern and On Wednesday, we continue with the question who owns the city and Sasuke Asasen Hope that I will meet a lot of you again on Wednesday Our topic today is Steering urban growth can planning and architecture manage and I'm very delighted that we have Two presenters here today who will organize the in my view the two most important events about urbanization next year Juan Kloss and Alejandro Aravena The global explosion in urban populations will be accommodated largely in informal settlements So far no city has managed to solve the problem associated with them through new housing The question is not only how the slums can be improved, but how the established global cities With their massive immigration and rising inequality might be able to find new solutions to find new ways of participation And here I steal from Alejandro to find a new language of architecture for all and not just for a few I Represent the Alfred Herrhausen Society the International Forum of Deutsche Bank We are looking for traces of the future in the present That means we look at current issues of our time We enable the exchange of ideas. We bring people together who should meet and And I think you all agree that urbanization is one of the most important issues of our time We have joined forces with the London School of Economics 10 years ago and Five years ago we founded LSE cities. So we have Yeah, two possibilities to celebrate. I think happy birthday to all of us The aim is to improve the physical and the social conditions of urban dwellers We do research Teaching and events and we produce beautiful books and not only books Ricky asked me also to show this beautiful folder here. You all have that on your table Also these kind of graphics were made by LSE cities But we have also given the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award seven times to seven different cities this award highlights Initiatives which had which have found their own solutions for their problems Let it be a vertical slum in Sao Paulo a community initiative on top of a toilet in Mumbai or Mother's Unite in Cape Town The award makes the invisible visible It unveils the potential found in slums favelas and townships and this is how we bring Both worlds together the experts world from urban age and the grassroots world from the award You might want to have the recipe of our successful Cooperation and I'll share that with you tonight You have to choose the right topic at the right time the right institutions But most of all the right people Therefore, I would like to thank first of all the London School of Economics and Political Science for Their cooperation through all these years which made our work really productive. I Like to thank Ricky Philip Richard Senate and the entire team hard-working team of urban age for these wonderful ten years and I'd also like to thank all speakers and contributors over the past ten years for their engagement Some of them are here today. Others will join us during the week Saskia Sassen called us once the urban tribe But finally we have become the urban age family and last but not least. I have a secret Ingredients of our success It is that we are challenging ourselves every year again With new topics with new countries with new cities with new cultures We step out of our comfort zone We discussed not only architecture and planning with architects and planners, but we also discussed health issues in 2011 in Hong Kong with doctors and neuroscientists We discussed economic growth with economists and governance with politicians and I think that's the clue Leaving your comfort zone. I'm very happy now To introduce an Urban age family member to you You may have heard about Jose Castillo as an award-winning architect from Mexico City as a professor of the Harvard Graduate School of Design But for us Jose is the man who organized the best City tour ever in Mexico City He showed us all different parts of Mexico and he even made us step into a garbage dump and Despite of this despite of this he became a friend Jose now the floor is yours