This year's James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City at the London School of Economics was delivered as the Localism Bill was being discussed in the UK Parliament. The event provided an alarming analysis of the bill, which will profoundly impact on the running and funding of cities, by someone uniquely qualified to dissect it. The speaker, Harvard Law School Professor Gerald Frug, was introduced by Richard Sennett as having virtually invented many aspects of current urban law. Entitled The Architecture of Governance, the talk recognised that all forms of governance are designed; that of urban governance influencing not only how cities develop, but also the everyday lives of all of us. Crucial to such design is the division of power between different levels of government.
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