Given broad agreement on these goals, the following questions emerged:
• What is holding metropolitan cities back if we all agree? • What are the conditions for success? • What are our priorities among these ambitions?
One of the keys to the new type of cities will be a different approach to production patterns and the way youth understand their place in society Sunil Dubey
We cannot continue building the same type of cities. When I talk to colleagues in the Global South I want to scream: stop building cities for cars! It is not the future anymore. Our children will not want to drive! Building cities for people is an equity as well as a development issue Paul Lecroart
Participants Sunil Dubey Founding director of the Geneva Foundation for Governance and Public Policy. He is Liaison Officer for Metropolis and plays a leading role in developing its activities in South Asia.
Paul Lecroart Senior Urban Planner at the Urban Planning Agency for the Paris Ilede-France Region (IAU), a member city of Metropolis. He takes part in Futuribles International, a think tank on the future of cities.
Pilar Conesa Director of the Anteverti consultancy, based in Barcelona, Spain. She curates the Smart City Expo World Congress, an internationally renowned event organized annually in Barcelona.
Luis Fernando Economist from Medellin, Colombia.
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