City Dialogues

27 March 2025

Demonstrator Districts in Global Cities

The roundtable discussion brought together London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and the built environment community to explore the role of demonstrator districts in the future of our cities.

City Dialogues

27 January 2025

Cities Forum: North American Cities – Investment Models and Partnerships

This roundtable discussion brought together London and Northern American cities to explore new investment models outside of traditional Central Activity Zones.

City Dialogues

20 January 2025

Decarbonising Cities: Lessons from London and Helsinki

Watch back this engaging City Dialogues webinar, bringing together London and Helsinki to discuss strategies and lessons learned in the transition towards sustainable urban infrastructure.

City Dialogues

15 November 2024

Reimagining Cities: Lessons from Europe

Watch this exciting roundtable discussion where leaders from London, Barcelona and Oslo explored how cities are being reimagined and reinvented, chaired by Prof. Greg Clark.

City Dialogues

11 November 2024

NYLON: Activating public spaces in New York and London

Watch the discussion between New York and London on rethinking streetscapes to prioritise people, create dynamic and sustainable environments, and enhance the public realm.

City Dialogues

06 September 2024

Tall buildings in the urban fabric

How do tall buildings integrate into the urban fabric and historical heritage? Watch back as we discuss city-wide strategies and the typology and design of these buildings.

City Dialogues

13 March 2023

NYLON: Innovation in New York and London

Watch NYLON as we look at the impact of increasing innovation districts on the urban fabric of cities.

City Dialogues

16 November 2022

London and Los Angeles: The Centre v The Suburbs

What are the drivers that bring us back to the centre and push us out to the suburbs of our global cities? Watch the webinar discussion between London and Los Angeles.

City Dialogues

20 October 2022

NYLON: Healthy Streets

How can urban design improve physical and mental wellbeing? Watch the webinar discussion between London and New York.

City Dialogues

12 April 2022

UK City Dialogue: incubator space as innovation accelerator

This UK City Dialogue brings together Manchester, Glasgow and London for a discussion exploring the benefits of investing in incubator space and the development of the UK as a leading innovation desti...

City Dialogues

06 December 2021

Gendered landscapes: equity in the public realm

Speakers join from the UK and Sweden to discuss how a gender equality-based approach is re-shaping cities.

City Dialogues

02 December 2021

Local London: building resilient neighbourhoods – Report launch

Experts look at how we can strengthen London’s polycentricity and ultimately its resilience to future crises.

City Dialogues

08 November 2021

Resilient Cities: preparing for climate events in the UK

As an industry, how do we move beyond the reactive and adopt a proactive approach to tackling climate change?

City Dialogues

20 September 2021

LEARNING FROM LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles-based Michael Wilson Katsibas of KAP and Ben Adams of BAA in London talk with Peter Murray about key issues around urban change and the lessons that can be learnt from the experience of bo...

City Dialogues

22 July 2021

NLA report launch: London Design Capital

Launch of London Design Capital, unveiling the key findings and updates from the research, and hear responses from industry experts.

City Dialogues

11 June 2021

NYLON #19 - Workplace futures

London and New York share thought leadership forecasting how the nature of the office will change after the disruption of 2020.

City Dialogues

22 April 2021

London and Chicago in conversation: tall buildings and the zero carbon agenda

Speakers from London and Chicago discussed how tall buildings and the zero-carbon agenda affect both cities. Event in association with Chicago Architecture Center.

City Dialogues

18 November 2020

Webinar: NYLON

Following the USA elections, our latest city dialogues event brought together experts from New York and London, to have a conversation about the future of our cities and of city-making as we start to...

City Dialogues

16 November 2020

‘City centres were once poor; now they are rich. But that can change’

Dominique Alba is CEO of Apur, the Paris Urbanism Agency, whose job is to develop forward looking strategies which address the urban evolution of Paris and Greater Paris – the Métropole du Grand Paris...

City Dialogues

28 October 2020

LREF City Dialogue: UK

As part of the year-round LREF Insights programme, this webinar brought together representatives from Liverpool and Glasgow in the lead-up to World Cities Day, a celebration of cities around the world...

City Dialogues

07 October 2020

UK City Dialogue

This UK City Dialogue brought together Manchester, London and Birmingham for a discussion about the health of our city centres as we move through the recovery from COVID-19.

City Dialogues

11 August 2020

An optimist for London

Laura Citron is Chief Executive Officer of London and Partners, the capital’s promotion agency. She talks to Peter Murray about long terms strengths that will attract visitors and the breadth of exper...

City Dialogues

28 July 2020

Global Dialogue: Cities after Covid-19

This webinar, which took place simultaneously in Milan, Shenzhen, Shanghai and London, brings experts together from Europe and Asia to look at the changes now shaping our cities.

City Dialogues

23 July 2020

Planning in New Zealand

Ben van Bruggen used to be Head of Urban Design at Savills, now he is the Manager of Urban Design Strategy for Auckland. He tells Peter Murray how planning in New Zealand, based on a zoning system, wo...

City Dialogues

21 July 2020

Benefits of agglomeration

Gabriel Metcalf is the CEO of the Committee of Sydney, an independent think tank advocating for ‘a Sydney that works for everyone’; he previously ran SPUR in San Francisco that city’s equivalent to NL...

City Dialogues

16 July 2020

Webinar: How are UK Cities adapting to their streets for active travel?

Experts from Birmingham, Manchester and London came together to address these pressing questions, sharing examples and discussing current challenges.

City Dialogues

27 May 2020

Webinar - NYLON The future of retail in New York and London

With both cities slowly reopening from the lockdown, retail faces an unprecedented era of flux. From world-leading shopping street destinations to neighbourhood high streets, markets, town centres and...

City Dialogues

21 April 2020

Global dialogue

Listen to Kent Martinussen of the Danish Architecture Centre, Lynn Osmond of the Chicago Architecture Centre, Ben Prosky of AIA New York and NLA’s Peter Murray discuss the impact of COVID-19 on each o...

City Dialogues

09 April 2020

Chinese contractors are back on site - but labour remains a problem

Ann Bentley is a global board director of Rider Levett Bucknall and a member of the Government’s Construction Leadership Council. She speaks to Peter Murray about the Government’s response to the curr...

City Dialogues

24 May 2016

Event Recording: EU Referendum: Briefing with the Built Environment Industry

What are the potential impacts of the EU Referendum for London’s built environment industry? With the EU Referendum fast approaching, a series of leading industry professionals...

City Dialogues

23 May 2016

Watch our EU Vox Pop: EU impact on London's built environment industry

This month NLA asks built environment professionals how the UK's current EU status, or a choice to leave the EU, impacts the built environment industry in London. With...