Podcasts about if mayors ruled

Host André Marquet talks to Luís Newton, the President of Estrela's Borough in Lisbon. Luís has been in this role for almost 9 years, although he is working in this field in total for over 20 years. Timestamps: Introduction of guest [1:20] How does a day of President of the Borough look like [2:00] How helping for Ukraine is being organized: humanitarian support, housing, education [4:30] How did Luís decide to dedicate his life to politics and people [11:00] First Luís job in Borough of Lapa [12:00] Naval engineering at IST - would Luís like to be working in that field now [15:30] What age did Luís start in politics - family history in politics and its influence on Luís's decision [18:00] What were Luís's priorities in the last 2 terms; TOP 3 priorities of Estrela Borough now [23:00] A basis of management in Estrela's borough - voting for people's ideas on the app [30:30] Estrela has an excellent President, or a great team? [36:30] How to explain political legislative flow to a 6-year-old child [37:00] Who is the boss of the President of the Borough? [42:00] How to encourage people to be more participative in politics [43:45] How to pitch Estrela to working parents [46:30] Pitching Estrela for Gen Z - it is the most instagrammable district of Lisbon [49:50] Can Estrela be less car-dependent and more bike-friendly? [52:30] Expansion of Gira bikes to Estrela [57:20] What does Luís think that boroughs should do? [1:00:00] Best practices of work at the borough [1:05:00] Budgets of boroughs and salary of presidents [1:07:00] How can law change the lives of boroughs [1:09:30] What did the jury consider as most important in your work to have awarded you in the role of CIO [1:15:00] City apps merging and development ideas [1:17:00] Should Lisbon be having a CTO, CIO or COO [1:21:00] How many months does it take to start fully working after being elected [1:25:30] If Luís had the superpower to change anything about government policy, what would it be? [1:28:00] Removing the train line between the city and the river [1:30:00] Envisioning the use of technology to improve people's lives [1:33:15] Quantum computing as a new technology Luís would learn if he had three months [1:35:40] Trends in population change in Estrela borough [1:38:40] What advice would Luís give to his younger self [1:40:20] What would Luís recommend to visit in Estrela [1:43:00]

In this episode I am really happy to talk to the co-founder & CEO of URBAN FUTURE Global Conference - Gerald Babel-Sutter. The URBAN FUTURE global conference is Europe's largest event for sustainable cities. But it is also so much more than that. It's a community of passionate CityChangers from all over the world. Active, passionate and visionary decision-makers – CityChangers – are the ones who drive change and create sustainable urban spaces. With Gerald we talked about: 1) the story behind the Urban Future Global Conference How did one small coincidence in Graz led to the the biggest event for sustainable cities? 2) How does pandemic influence urbanism conferences? This can be on a more personal note as I was directly influenced by it. I was extremely excited to join UFCG in Lisbon. I had bought all the tickets and accommodation and then the lockdown came.. But I was only one of the participants. It had to be really devastating for the organising team who spend more than a year of their life preparing for this event. 3) The FUTURE of Urban Future The Urban Future is now rebranding and broadening the scope with online activities. It is extremely interesting for a conference to be rebranded into a one big community of city changers, where the physical conferences are only a part of the whole agenda. Gerald reccommendet the following book: If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin Barber https://www.amazon.pl/If-Mayors-Ruled-World-Dysfunctional/dp/030016467X You can follow Gerald and the Urban Future at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urbanfuture/ http://www.urban-future.org/ https://www.facebook.com/urbanfutureglobalconference/ https://www.instagram.com/urban_future_global_conference/

Antônio Sampaio, Research Associate for Conflict, Security and Development, joins Dr Kori Schake for this episode of Sounds Strategic.How to provide robust security in rapidly growing cities has been a persistent challenge for policymakers, especially as more people are expected to move into cities throughout the 21st century. In this episode, Antônio explores the case of Rio de Janeiro, a city that has experienced extreme violence for decades as a result of state neglect and gang activity. Although Rio remains one of the most violent cities in the world, Antônio details some of the successful policies that have brought back a degree of stability and state control in the favelas, unofficial suburbs that have been the traditional heartland of Brazilian gangs.Most importantly, the policy successes and failures that Antônio highlights in his research in Rio have important lessons and applications for urban security in other cities around the world, from countering cartels in Mexico to reintroducing state control in the re-claimed city of Mosul in Iraq.For Antônio, developing effective human-centric approaches to urban security is vital and should be considered of equal importance to wider national-level security sector reform and development efforts before, during and after conflict. Counter to many policymakers' concerns, Antônio does not believe rapid urbanisation inherently leads to greater violence in cities. He warns that this belief is used to justify military-centric policy that increases police lethality but overlooks local political dynamics within cities. Reading recommendations:Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime and The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Illicit Order: The Militarised Logic of Organised Crime and Urban Security in Rio de Janeiro, (September 2019)David Kilcullen, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla, (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2013)Benjamin R. Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities, (London: Yale University Press, 2014)Antonio Sampaio, ‘Before and after urban warfare: Conflict prevention and transitions in cities', International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 98, No. 1, April 2016, pp. 71-95Favourite data visualisation:The Atlas of Urban Expansion, UN HabitatKarachi, The Atlas of Urban Expansion, UN HabitatDate of recording: 6 September 2019Sounds Strategic is recorded and produced at the IISS in LondonTheme music: ‘Safety in Numbers' by We Were Promised Jetpacks See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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On this week's podcast, we're joined by arguably the biggest political theorist writing about cities today. In 2013, Benjamin Barber published If Mayors Ruled the World, a book in which he argued that nation states are increasingly powerless to deal with the challenges of the 21st century (climate change, migration, terrorism, and so forth). Instead, Barber suggests we should be looking to cities as the building blocks of the global government of the future. I was lucky enough to grab a few minutes with Barber after an event organised by the Centre for Cities last week. He told me more about his theories, and how he's putting them into practice by creating the Global Parliament of Mayors, which will hold its first meeting this September. But, with apologies to the 60 per cent of our readers who aren't based in these islands, but there's really only one topic any of us can focus on right now: the gradual collapse of our government, opposition, economy, global status, and very possibly the United Kingdom... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we’re joined by Michael Shermer to talk about his book The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom (2015).What exactly is science, and how does a belief in science advance culture? How are natural rights related to science? How does Shermer define human flourishing—and how does science and reason help us achieve it? What’s the difference between science and pseudoscience, and how can we tell? What, if anything, does government have to do with all this? And lastly, how do scientific beliefs change over time?Show Notes and Further ReadingMichael Shermer, The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom (book)Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (book)Benjamin R. Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (book)Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (book)Peter T. Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (book) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, Raphael Bostic, William G. Resh, and Ronald O. Loveridge discuss political theorist Benjamin Barber's book If Mayors Ruled the World. The book outlines Barber's hypothesis that cities are in better position to solve some global problems. Can cities provide the leadership that nations states used to by mobilizing local civic action and the sharing of best practices between cities? Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center http://bedrosian.usc.edu/  Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy http://priceschool.usc.edu 

American Political Theorist and Author Benjamin Barber joins us this episode to talk about his recent book, “If Mayors Ruled the World.” About Benjamin Barber: Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the President and Founder... The post EP 52 – Benjamin Barber author of “If Majors Ruled the World” appeared first on Greed for Ilm.

Cities are home to more than half of the world's population, and are the primary incubators of the cultural, social and political innovations that shape our planet. Benjamin Barber, author of the upcoming book If Mayors Ruled the World, proposes that cities represent a new paradigm of global governance - that democracy began in cities and works best in cities, and that networked cities working across borders can and already do solve global problems of climate change, immigration, security and transportation. Barber is author of Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age and Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World. He is Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Following Mr. Barber's presentation he is joined on stage by New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr.