Urban Meetings
As a gift for the city of Rotterdam, IHS – together with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and AIR Foundation (AIR) –organizes a series of urban meetings that explore the need for an Urban Agenda for an Urban Age. What are the main issues for urban managers in the 21st century? How does urban development connect to urban design? And: How are we responding to the challenges of an urban age, worldwide and in Rotterdam?
Connecting the (inter)national and local networks of IHS, IABR and AIR has resulted in an interesting selection of speakers and debaters.
These urban meetings take place in October and November 2008.

Documentary film Making Cities Work
Celebrating 50 years of IHS and shot in Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg and New Delhi, this documentary film illustrates why urban management is important in the 21st century and how IHS responds to the challenge. The film will be launched on October 8, 2008
Director: Rob Schröder
Producer: George Brugmans

Alumni Essay Contest and Photo Competition
IHS invites its 7,000 alumni to share their insights on housing and urban development. The writers of the winning essays will win an executive course at IHS. The essays will be published in the autumn of 2008.
Furthermore, IHS alumni and other urban management professionals submitted their images of urban development. IHS put them on show in an on line and off line exhibition.

Academic Conference ‘Are Cities more Important than Countries?’
Leading academics give their insights on the economic aspects of the world’s rapid urbanization. The conference takes place on 30 and 31 October at IHS. Keynote speakers are:  Edward Glaeser (Harvard University, USA); Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bologna, Italy); Henry Overman (London School of Economics, UK); Jacques Thisse (Core and UCL, Belgium).