UTC: Future Cities Forum

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Future Cities Forum Urban Thinkers Campus Dubai 10 – 11 January 2016 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Table of Contents Urban Thinkers Campus in figures.............................................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction to the Urban Thinkers Campus............................................................................................................................... 5 The City We Need principle(s) addressed.................................................................................................................................. 6 Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations....................................................................................................... 6 Key outcomes of the UTC......................................................................................................................................................... 12 Key recommendations.............................................................................................................................................................. 14 Key actors................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Outstanding issues................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Speakers................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 List of all countries present...................................................................................................................................................... 23

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Urban Thinkers Campus in figures

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201

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

PARTICIPANTS

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CONSTITUENT GROUPS REPRESENTED

170

ORGANIZATIONS

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Introduction

The Urban Thinkers Campus Dubai “Future Cities Forum” was hosted

For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in

and organized by Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI) and the International

cities: nearly 1/2 of African and Asian population is urbanizing; andmore

Federation of Real Estate “FIABCI” in Dubai from 10 – 11 January 2016. Mr.

than 3/4 of Latin America is already urbanized. Cities are contributing

Mahmoud El Burai from DREI was the head of organizing committee and

to 90% of the world population growth, 80% of wealth, 60% of energy

Dina Jabsheh was the Emcee of the event.

consumption. By 2025, cities will need to construct floor space equivalent to 85% of all of today’s urban building stock – an area the size of Austria. Most

The program is built on the nine principles of “The City We Need”; and split

of 600 million people driving city growth have to survive in the environment

into three thematic sessions:

of substandard living conditions and incomes along with deficient provision

1. The City We Need is Smart & Sustainable

of basic services. More than 341 million unemployed youth live in developing

2. The City We Need is Economically Vibrant & Inclusive

countries, mostly in cities, barely subsisting on less than $2 a day. We have

3. The City We Need is Safe & Resilient

828 million people who are still living in slums. 663 million people are still without water. We have 2.4 billion people who don’t have access to basic

These three themes are linked and debated with the nine principles of

sanitation services.

“The City We Need” in mind. Other pivotal events were incorporated in the agenda with the main objective of enriching dialogue & discussion such as “The City We Need debate”, “Investors Summit”, “Smart City Lab”, Urban Cinema, “Young Urban Thinkers” & “Future Urban Thinkers” and two drafting Sessions. The idea was to have different themes and group sessions to ensure fair representation of constituent groups. The objective was to convert The City We Need into five different parts as; a city of tomorrow is not only about building cities from scratch but enriching and enhancing existing infrastructure, vibrant economy, resilient socially and environmentally and uses smart technologies to enhance city management functions and diversity.

Ethan Kent @ebkent

9 Jan 2016

Capacity for change is the crisis of all #cities. A focus on place can grow shared change leadership. #UrbanThinkers. https://twitter.com/ebkent/status/686066903459049472

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Cities worldwide are urbanizing at the rate of 10,000 people per hour - equivalent to one new London every month! Today’s 3.9 million people in cities will be 5.1 billion in 15 years. In 35 years we will be 6.4 billion

The City We Need principle(s) addressed

and in 85 years, we will be 9 billion. Our society is about to change a lot in a generation from now; the life expectancy will go up to 83 years and

1. The City We Need is Smart & Sustainable

36% of the population will be more than 60 years old. The price of land

2. The City We Need is Economically Vibrant & Inclusive

has increased incredibly in the past 2 years due to population increase,

3. The City We Need is Safe & Resilient

we started with 1.5 million people in cities in 1950 and now we are going

4. The City We Need is Joyful & Tolerant

to have tripled that number. The Dubai economy lost 790 million dollars in 2013 due to traffic congestion. This was due to the time and fuel wasted on traffic jams by people communint to and from work in Dubai. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) had the largest price increase in the property market and in 2015 study shows that more than half of the expatriates living in the country considered leaving because of the high costs of living. The cost of accommodation was on the top of list of concerns.

‫د‬. ‫يرملا قوط نب دمحأ‬ @Abintouq

10 Jan 2016

Normative framework 2030. Agenda. 5Ps. People. Plant.

Peace. Prosperity and partnership #UrbanThinkers. https://twitter.com/Abintouq/status/686102039328362496

Matrix of linkages - TCWN 1.0 vs. new recommendations In this section, we organized and grouped the recommendations under their relevant key outcomes as they pertain to the respective principle “The City We Need” 9 principles.

We also grouped the two principles together; “The City We Need is Affordable and Equitable” under “The City We Need is Economically Vibrant and Inclusive”. As we found out through the discussions that the first principle can be sub-principle of the second; although it may be debated that “Equitable” is used in a broader meaning outside the context of “Economic”.

We felt that all of the other seven principles included “Equitable” in their context and core meaning and cannot materialize without it. We also added a new principle inspired from the Young Urban Thinkers Session, “The City We Need is Joyful & Tolerant”. A tolerant City is one where inhabitants accept and welcome one another with no previous notion or perception about color, religion, nationality, ethnic background or race recognizing the human inside, humanity is the common denominator amongst all in tolerant city.

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Principle

Recommendation Conduct various studies and surveys, part of which should be directed to minorities and non-citizens to ensure inclusion and equal representation.

Review migration policies to achieve inclusion and diminish feeling alienated within urban communities.

Allow those who have lived in a city for X number of years to acquire citizenship.

The City We Need is INCLUSIVE

In order to make city inhabitants feel empowered, there could be town halls created physically and virtually representing all stakeholders in an urban community.

Create a campaign for individuals representing each country to create awareness and facilitate creation of voice.

Usetechnology as an enabler to form dialogue between the different urban groups, Engage city leaders as champions of inclusion and roll out city wide programs that demand collaboration between different urban communities and local authorities.

Plan and provide public spaces that welcomes multiple incoming groups from various ethnic backgrounds, build spaces of encounter, and research on how we can train people for “multicultural intelligence” in schools and universities.

Urban lab to test the application of a transit-oriented ,place-centric ,climate responsive model to retrofit urban districts and neighborhoods to become more sustainable.

Provide a governance platform for urban & transport planners to collaborate on major projects.

Study the provision of quality services in each district and use smart technology to make districts access services equally.

Incentivize the development of urban neighborhoods that are home-work places.

Initiate the localization of services, flexible planning & high quality public transportation.

Make public transport more affordable to encourage using it instead of cars to relieve congestion.

Walkability standards need to be accommodated according to climate in different cities, especially pedestrian sheds that needs to be reduced in hot climate from 200m till 100m.

A walkable city has a human scale and thus small open spaces placed at strategic locations, encourage social interaction within the different communities, increases walkability and increases happiness.

Use alternative intelligent transport systems such as driverless cars, to enhance access of minority groups to employment areas.

Initiate a day every month for example, for alternate transport to be provided for everyone, to and from work or schoolsetc., other than use carsin the city.

The City We Need Is WELL

Make a reward for companies whose employees use the least number of cars in transport and use alternate methods.

PLANNED, WALKABLE AND

Provide flexible planning framework.

TRANSIT FRIENDLY

Establish public private partnership to fund high quality public transportation.

Establish design guidelines for places that are neighborhood centered.

Plan social infrastructure that serve its direct communities.

Plan urban neighborhood to be inter-connected and permeable.

Favor smart growth plans that densify on existing urban areas.

Incentivize walkability through policies, regulations and guidelines in order to increase bike share in transport.

Plan efficient infrastructure that is reliable and resilient.

Plan climate responsive neighborhoods that include affordable housing.

Adopt transit oriented development model for urban neighborhoods.

Maximize public space.

Survey district dwellers need in order to inform its urban plans.

Build an urban map showing how the city can be explored through feet linking different public destinations together.

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Principle

Recommendation Reform energy subsides.

Remove legal and finance barriers for private funding in renewable energy.

Facilitate access to technology through sharing research and establish interoperability.

Allocate funding to start-ups in smart and green technology.

Transfer knowledge of green initiatives across economic sectors.

Run city-wide awareness programs and workshop for residents, tourists and guests about local natural resources use and how to be more efficient.

Educate its residents on how to manage their own house energy and expose them to smart metering in order to be aware of the consumption of water and electricity.

Commercialize water/electricity management devices, used mainly for pre-paid accounts, so people go and pay and when the payment is over, water/ electricity supply cuts off.

Utilize Social media in educating the new generation- kids and teenagers- on energy efficiency.

Using environmental systems to shape the city’s architecture: unique design elements integrated with smart technology; generate energy form its facades, walls, flooring; experimente with geothermal energy; and explore kinetic energy measures in bikes and pedestrian walkaways.

Establish urban living labs that collect the energy they are consuming through smart meters in order to visualize for them the energy, and water consumption problems.

The City We Need Is a REGENERATIVE CITY

Fund Research to develop technologies to harvest energy from human induced activity such as noise and vibration.

Encourage crowd-funding for urban communities to invest in renewable energy research.

Design electricity-generating bicycle tracks, which generate electricity while a person is peddling. This is interesting and healthy for the users. Alternatively, make the tracks on the sidewalks where they don’t need to be electricity-generating but just to get people moving. It’s a method of exercising as well as get people to work faster than when you are in a car, stuck in traffic for hours, that is for the health aspect.

Run City-wide Recycling initiatives and local champions recognition program.

Establish urban living labs for testing solar powered energy across the city sectors and areas.

Provide Self-solar power vehicles that are affordable.

Adopt city-wide measures to reuse sewerage water for irrigation and non-human activities Collect kinetic energy from gyms in apartment buildings that is through human use and conduct monthly awards for the highest energy supply.

Explore the application of ISO 4000 compliant on buildings.

Explore smart trashcans through which city officials could view online the amount of garbage in each container and design a more efficient waste collection roots minimizing transport time and carbon emissions.

The roofs of our shading devices on the streets can be cladded with PV panels which provide enough electricity to charge one’s phone.

If we can manage water differently, we can save thousands of children killed by poor quality water daily.

Improvement in waste reduction, street lighting, emergency notifications, traffic lights, and environmental monitoring to be reinvested in education to prevent poverty.

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Principle

Recommendation Have parallel principles global and locally economically vibrant to keep uniqueness of city.

Implement regulations to allow selling public occupied lands to the resident communities with the aim of improving land utilization.

Unlock land for affordable housing through transit-oriented development, idle land policies, release of public land, inclusionary zoning with density bonus.

Offer regulations and Incentives for private real estate developers to build affordable housing project.

Adopt inclusionary zoning with density bonus for developers to transfer development rights.

Integrating smart technology like “Building Information Modeling” (BIM) - which is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places- can be employed to affordable housing. The accumulation of data over the years, organize more efficiently every kind of information connected to any kind of building positioned all over the world.

Run awareness sessions and set standards to redefine and change market perception on affordable housing as a lower quality real estate asset.

Run awareness city-wide programs for real estate developers on control of construction cost through innovation and value engineering.

Ensure the transparency of affordable housing eligibility criteria and put in measures to avoid the misuse of sub-market housing offers.

Upgrade E-government services for urban services.

Develop Financing tools for SME’s.

Develop affordable Business training for entrepreneurs.

Ease trading licensing requirements.

The City We Need Is ECO-

Provide a one-stop shop for licensing and services. This is to recognize and protect the specific needs of the informal sector of the economy and it’s a economic development strategies.

NOMICALLY VIBRANT AND

Evaluate on frequent basis employment policies for migrants in urban communities.

INCLUSIVE (Includes: The

Encourage local economy in different urban communities benefitting from local skills and craftsmanship.

City We Need is AFFORD-

Invest in setting up micro finance to encourage women entrepreneurs.

ABLE AND EQUITABLE)

Propose affordable housing solutions for young families.

Foster economic development through entrepreneurial university courses.

Develop incubators for startups in specific economic sectors and ensure knowledge transfer and documentation of best practices for successful homegrown companies.

Use Energy efficiency measures and sustainability standards to lower operational costs.

Manage efficiently the construction program for timely completion and handover to reduce capital costs.

Improve capital productivity via lean construction, value engineering, clean-sheet procurement, and industrial construction.

Adopt lean processes and Building Intelligent management systems to lower construction and infrastructure costs.

Fund housing programs through land value capture, other cross-subsidy schemes, or general tax funds.

Focus on medium to high density compact transit oriented developments mixed use developments.

Gather good practice in housing development and share best practices with other cities Create “multi-generation flats”, like Singapore.

Provide discounted rents, like Austria.

Attract institutional investors to invest in affordable housing, like Germany & USA. Facilitate crowd-funding.

Lower borrowing rates for affordable housing projects.

Specific real estate regulatory measures for affordable housing could include No Early Repayment Charges,18 Month Moratorium for the Buyer, Provision of Equal Instalment Payment by Bank and Buyer for Off Plan Sales.

Redesign legacy, process and systems for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Show achieved results to the world through urban campaigns , summits, conferences and research.

Establish public- private partnerships to encourage the private sector to contribute to the local economy.

Assist in capacity building for disadvantaged community especially in crowd-funding tools to finance small scale retail.

Include affordable housing as an integrated part and essential indicator of the real estate market economic health check.

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Principle

Recommendation Design an awareness program on cities cultural heritage.

Conduct frequent research study on how people read and perceive their city using urban design tools such as legibility analysis or phenomenological approaches.

Protect and preserve the architectural and landscape heritage of the city as an essential driver to cities sense of place.

The City We Need has a SINGULAR IDENTITY AND SENSE OF PLACE

Imbed feedback mechanism for different urban communities to feed their own meanings into the city overall character.

Run city- wide workshops to identify public spaces and destinations that shape the image of the city for each of its urban communities and identify linkages that integrate them within a larger urban vision.

Define urban identity guidelines synthesizing the meanings that citizens associate with the city.

Bring together city leaders to brainstorm together with the economic sectors how to communicate and strengthen a city’s unique identity.

Increase the connectivity between the different neighborhoods without threatening their culture practices.

Organize city-wide cultural programs and festivals that would animate urban spaces, engage citizens creatively and take inspiration from the city uniqueness.

Use social media to run city-wide brainstorming sessions about safety and security.

Establish and Urban command and emergency center that can be reached by all citizens.

Design a city-wide Social inclusion program to impact safety.

Strengthen the human values of safety enforcing authorities and involve the urban communities they serve.

Ensure the availability of firefighting stations within high-rise areas at strategic locations with variable sizes.

Provide shelter service and social and psychological care for women and children exposed to violence.

Build and operate a comprehensive security infrastructure.

Clarify policies to ensure sound enforcement of law.

Leverage smart technologies for accident and terrorist threats reporting protecting reporter anonymity.

Empower community support and co-responsibility.

The City We Need is a SAFE CITY

Plan workshops that break cultural barriers and allow for more tolerance and acceptance between city ethnic groups.

Empower neighborhoods residents to know each other through communal events.

Fund community programs to create strong bonds within the same urban district.

Improve communication channels through adoption of online platforms and mobile based forums on a local municipal level.

Engage the community on local plans to scenarios for resilience to foster social Inclusion and a sense of community and belonging as a way to increase safety and security in urban spaces.

Establish a governance structure for co-ordination between government and local authorities on emergency response for security events.

Ensure commitment & continuity to disaster recovery strategies & plans regardless of political succession.

Establish indicators to measure disaster recovery success through benchmarking post-disaster urban areas.

Adopt international codes for risks assessment and response especially regarding disaster recovery and terrorists threats on a global level.

Use Internet of things to track any device, virtual or physical in order to recover lost and stolen property.

Use Intelligent traffic management systems to decrease road deaths and enable citizens to plan their commute to work and encourage use public transportation.

Automate and remotely monitor city and building security for lower cost.

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Principle

Recommendation Promote awareness on how citizens impact city urban health through school curriculums of primary/secondary school and offer Health education for families in community centers or religious congregations (Masjid, Church, temple…etc).

Encourage the use of fitness smart gadgets to make individuals aware of their lack of physical activity.

Initiate fitness day at city level outdoors a fun activity for all and put rewards into place to encourage participation and make it fun activity, as happy city means healthy city.

Utilize technology to automating and remotely monitoring city and building security… higher security, lower cost.

Smart trashcans to help city officials view the amount of garbage in each container online or through smart devices app.

The City We Need is a Healthy City

Organize car free days, close streets on the weekend, like Saturdays for walking and biking.

Agree on urban KPI reflecting what the community agree to be a healthy city.

Embrace tighter regulations on importing unhealthy, processed food , artificial colors and fast food specially for children.

Establishment of remote online home healthcare services that would eliminate doctors’ visits and facilitate more proactive healthcare.

Public gardening to our project, which could work for mixed use lands, where each patch of the garden is rented by someone and they can harvest their growth, such as vegetation or certain plants, while leaving work. This idea forces the negligence of the use of cars and enforces people to walk towards their patch, which differs in size depending on the person’s social status.

Assign pedestrian exclusivity on main streets on Saturdays for walking and biking and sweets to go into the market and cause long term health problems to children.

Apply tighter and more strict regulations and control on allowing unhealthy food.

Leverage smart technology to decentralize metropolitan budgets to ensure fast execution of programs and initiatives by the different authorities.

Each city commits itself to a 5-year strategy sectorial integrated development plan within a local framework that will be there regardless of leadership change.

Promote and encourage public-private partnership for delivery of city services.

The City We Need is Managed at Metropolitan Level

Adopt open date platforms to increase communication with its citizens.

Execute digital and electronic services upgrading in order to enable citizens to access city services more easily.

Provide anonymous feedback and complaint channels to citizens against their work, city officials or anyone else in between without the threat of a backlash.

Develop city leaders that are guided by transparency, integrity and accountability as key values for city management.

Raise awareness and engage children in their community through integrating volunteering programs into their schooling curriculum.

City managers and mayors can inspire children and incite their curiosity by hosting out of the bloc activities and interactive exhibitions that would provide edutainment opportunities for children.

A city calendar of festivals is another proven method since ancient times in animating city spaces with outdoor activities and leisure opportunities contributing to overall happiness for urban communities.

The City We Need is Joyful and Tolerant City (suggest new principle)

Sports play an important role; children in cities need local sport facilities at walking distances from their homes that would host district sporting competitions.

Run competitions at schools level against each other city wide for sports or healthy eating.

Wi-Fi enabled parks, media exhibitions are ways in which children engage with technology on an urban level.

Employ technology to reinforce culture through producing APPS (applications) that inform these future urban dwellers of what is happening around them such as local performances, music concerts and so one.

Created a system that enables community leaders and local authorities to measure happiness of inhabitants of all ages, based on geographic location and highlighting factors of happiness and unhappiness.

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Key outcomes of the UTC The main outcome of the “Future Cities Forum” is how cities can be formed

Other issues include:

• Centralized and segregated cities that do not have responsive transit oriented developments.

and redesigned for future sustainability. The debates used the nine principles of The City We Need document as a base for these discussions. The City

• Climate change and pollution: the negative impact that built environment

We Need can be better implemented through public/private partnership.

has on our climate accounts for more than 40% of all CO2 emissions

Cities must have comprehensive urban design, inclusive, well planned and

where construction and operation traditionally are extremely resource

designed for ease of living, safe. Cities have to be tolerant, welcoming to

intensive along their lifecycle; buildings generate a significant amount

its inhabitants whilst providing an equal chance for all in terms of living

of waste.

space, education and work opportunities. Cities must adopt a compact highdensity model in order to allow for planned urban expansion and reduce

• There is a pressing need to make responsible businesses where we

urban footprint, enrich resilient economies, support SME’s, encourage and

can translate existing responsible business policies and commitments

monitor supply and availability of affordable housing units while executing

into everyday pragmatic actions that are practical, achievable and

policies to support it, this all while keeping in mind providing infrastructure

repeatable, across organizational and geographic boundaries. One

able to face disasters of all kinds.

major issue was the one-dimensional approach taken by most initiatives as far as the audience, or life cycle phase and issues covered.

In order to achieve social and economic sustainability, you need to sustain family formation while preserving culture and heritage and social inclusion

• In order to achieve a regenerative city, we must think of retrofitting

and integration, by qualifying and integrating larger national workforce,

and redesigning our cities where local authorities are also involved in

empowering women and decentralizing development. People are at the

planning; hence, a major issue arise out is the cost management for

center of The City We Need, their wellbeing is determined by how the city is

retrofitting / distorted market and whether we have the right definition

designed and managed, and city is driven by the strong visionary leadership

of “Regenerative City” or not as it must include “Recycling”, update

of people.

technology as infrastructure and network to aid in making our cities more efficient.

The City We Need needs to be an all-inclusive, comprehensive city that embraces the different cultural, ethnic, religious and social background

• In order to have a sustainable economy, we need to encourage SME’s

and facilitates a lifelong learning opportunities to all inhabitants. We

engagement and participation in the economy in every economic

found that barriers of access exist in many essential services like health

condition through initiatives like mitigating economy against

and education due to exaggerated fees and political considerations, giving

speculation and helping businesses retain staff. This can be achieved

priority or sometimes limiting admittance/seats to influential families in

through treating land and real estate as long term assets instead of just

addition to barriers of entry into job markets and lack of equal employment

another financial asset class for short term gain which are main factors

opportunities where job applicants are evaluated based on nationality, color

of creating volatile market conditions which takes us to the next subject,

of skin and family name instead of education and experience. Public private

affordable housing, which proved to be a widespread concern in the

partnership should be used to limit or lessen the rate of unemployment,

region that needs to be highly prioritized on the agenda of public-private

encourage job creation which should not be limited to upper income layer

partnership where cost of land, construction and business models for

and priority is given to who the decision maker knows.

developers and affordable and adequate housing policies must be addressed, facilitate accessibility to housing finance through incentives to banks and housing governance; where in many cases, there is a direct correlation between affordable housing and employees retention as staff turnover is hard especially for the continuity and the quality of the

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services. Right now middle and low income families who cannot afford

• The issue of affordable housing is crucial as the concentration of

housing within cities are forced to move to the sub cities leading to

urban slums seems to correlate positively with crime rate and urban

traffic congestion.

violence. It is estimated that between 500 million and 1.5 billion children experiencing violence annually. 86% of children between 2 and 14 years

• In order to sustain businesses, we need to sustain their employees and

old experience physical punishment and/or psychological aggression.

build cities based on human scale to have affordable housing located

Two out of three children are subject to physical punishment. (UNICEF,

in different parts of the city with good design, more than just visual

2009). Children are sexually abused by people they know 95% of the

attraction, addressing livability and adaptability of the units, their energy

time. 57 million children remain out of school. There are no awareness

efficiency, the profitability of the project and the long term sustainability

session by citizens and for citizens on all vital services and their legal

and the livability. There is a need to provide security of tenure that

rights.

enables the poor to have secure ownership of their housing, so that they can use it when other resources of income are reduced. Building standards, construction material standards, construction and occupancy

• Aging population in many developed countries means reduction of productive workforce and increased demands for healthcare.

permits, and codes should be made simple and drive sustainability.

• Disconnection from Nature impacts level of wellbeing, therefore • Preserving an identity of the city is a challenge in this era of globalization

giving incentives to real estate industry to build cities where health,

and its effect on local cultures where everyone needs to be involved,

safety and wellbeing of building occupants are integrated in the

including the Real Estate industry in making & protecting city identity

developments. Wellbeing of inhabitants depends on the availability and

to minimize segregation based on social, ethnic and Integrate Social

cost effectiveness of healthier food and products.

multi ethnic platforms for the purpose of engaging residents of urban communities together and with stakeholders and encourage everyone to be a city changer and preserve cultural identity.

• Promoting social sustainability means inclusion and integration of inhabitants where a city is “transparently managed” instead of “managed”, combating bureaucracy and multi-level of administration

• Safety in a city is the product of many intertwining initiative and peace

that separate citizens from management bodies and decision makers

and security issues are essential to be addressed including but not

and gives absolute authority of police force in afflicting repression on

limited to educating illiterate new migrants/temporary residents in

inhabitants aiming for a more decentralized decision making a policies

order to influence safety levels of cities and improving cities’ ability to

to fight corruption especially in vital services like garbage collection,

absorb, adopt and accommodate asylums and migrants resulting from

telecommunication, electricity and water.

wars and natural disasters.

• Safety and resilience of a city can be improved through combating human rights violations corrupt practices involved in land acquisition to development and operational use phases pressing for decent work & human rights within the value chain. Controlling outdated safety codes for hi-rise buildings.

• Setting a clear definition of “Violence” is essential due to escalating urban violence of all types and rising crime rates where sometimes crimes are committed in the false name of religion and culture as cultural barriers help foster violence and sweep it under the rug in addition to mislabeling as “disciplinary action”.

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9 Jan 2016

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Key Recommendations

The City We Need Is WELL PLANNED, WALKABLE AND TRANSIT FRIENDLY

The following section contains the recommendations that were based on

We need our cities to have participatory vision sessions, propose a compre-

the above outcomes and were derived from all of the sessions held during

hensive urban design plan with all the stakeholders and develop a resultant

the two day agenda.

goal based detailed plan with Key Performance Indicators that measure important issues linked to national urban development plans. Public and

The City We Need Is SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE

private sectors collaborate together to design a well-structured city that

A comprehensive design that revolves around the human factor rather than

answers as well the aspirations of the needs of its different groups .Its

around buildings is needed. Cities should provide educational programs,

planning authorities adopt public participation within its planning process

enhance cultural understanding and bridge the gap between their different

and incorporate a community hearing for major development projects. A

urban communities and is accessible to multiple social groups. Adaptive

well planned city is formed by urban developments planned to suit the local

frameworks are needed in order to provide space for feedback from all

aspirations of the sector it belongs to. Urban neighborhoods and districts in

constituents and social groups. Targeted subsides should be available to

well-planned transit friendly and walkable cities are designed and mostly

address the disadvantages in terms of access to education and housing and

retrofitted to be Transit-Oriented Place-centric Climate-responsive. Their ur-

a diversity of measures should be explored in workplaces.

ban design principles are centered on fostering economic vitality, enhancing social diversity and reinforcing environmental integrity. A transit-friendly

City planning needs to be driven by citizen engagement so as to ensure

city stakeholder meet to brainstorm on how the transit system could inte-

meaningful feedback and participation. City planning leaders engage com-

grate better with surrounding urban neighborhoods and put in place policies

munity leaders as champions of inclusion and incite citizen engagement to

to limit/discourage car use in the city. It is a city that has a walkability vision

feed the planning and execution processes of the city.

suitable to its specific climate and responding to its local limitations. The Infrastructure of the city is well planned and its urban streets are designed

Cities need to be designed as mixed use, mixed income communities,

to be sustainable and encourage walkability through a set of guidelines.

connected with multi-functional green spaces responding to different age

The city provides a network of public spaces that are accessible to urban

groups to facilitate integration. Cities to be formed by mixed communities,

dwellers of different income, age group and ethnicity. Land owners tend

diverse in income and ethnicity integrated with its surroundings. The Smart

to care more about the commercial side of the project therefore we tend

Dubai Office assists in shaping policies, guiding initiatives and enabling ser-

to see a lack of walkable spaces and cycle paths that cater to the human

vices to make the city more seamless, safe, efficient and impactful for all

scale. Therefore, a culture of quantity over quality is promoted. This is why

residents and visitors.

you see many living islands. It is true that we have what we call segregated communities but at the same time, one community cannot contain all aspects of people’s needs. That is why most of the time and due to the lack of integrated living model, people end up traveling outside their communities to satisfy their needs. There should be an integrated living model along with mass transit in order to tackle the objectives of 2020 and the plan thereafter. It provides Bicycle tracks connecting well-designed community gathering places which are critical to community identity. This is a city where urban planners need to work closely with transportation planners and to be centered on the individual. The Abu Dhabi street design tool is an example of a tool to help design safer and more user-friendly.

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The City We Need Is a REGENERATIVE CITY

The City We Need Is ECONOMICALLY VIBRANT AND INCLUSIVE

The Regenerative City is a city that educates its inhabitants about basic

(Includes: The City We Need is Affordable and Equitable)

recycling, energy efficiency and water usage in this age of climate change,

We should add “resilient” to the title (vibrant & inclusive); economically

making it an integral part of school curriculum, employee orientation pro-

vibrant city is one that is economically sustainable and resilient; this hap-

grams and tourism notices and rewards its residents on their green initia-

pens through qualifying and integrating larger national workforce, empow-

tives aiming to improve green strategies in each community. Educate inhab-

ering women and decentralizing development, governance and sustainable

itants their role in reducing energy consumption and waste management in

business models. The urban economy of cities is developed through smart

their urban community. It monitors resources through smart technologies

technology ensuring open data, land management policy to ensure tenure

in order to become more efficient. It applies an environmental protection

security, real estate processes protecting property rights, establishment of

program. Its policies lessen subsidies for fossil fuel, electricity or water and

land development, and housing finance regulations. Facilitate housing and

provide financial and social incentives for urban communities that meet re-

small business finance. Change the mindset of the public sector and intro-

sources efficiency targets. It is a city that observes how materials circulate

duce incentive programs for optimal land use in favor of affordable housing.

within the city and look for opportunities to limit waste. Regenerative cities

To integrate (not protect) the informal sector and support development of

invest in setting up incubation centers for green technology start-ups and

rural areas rather than moving people to cities. Cities also need to secure

adopt open Standards to enable devices, networks, applications, and data

jobs rather than focus only on job creation. Equity in cities means also equal

that monitor natural resources efficiency on all city scale to communicate

access to capital especially for social entrepreneurs and small and medium

with each other. It established a business ecosystem for exploring renew-

enterprises. As such, equity in cities starts by devising equal procurement

able energy and resources efficiency that brings together city departments,

and contracts strategies for large and medium projects, supporting youth

agencies, businesses, community groups, academics, and urban developers.

through capacity building, running affordable training programs for aspiring entrepreneurs and also adopting work policies that enable part-time work

Solar panels technology along with wind turbines are outdated and could be

and also life balance – an essential element for women to participate more

seen as traditional and standardized ways of collecting energy. We should

in the economy.

start viewing everything around us as potential energy sources. This includes vibrations and noise, especially in the city, to generate electricity.

Economically vibrant cities create more innovators instead of workers and

Researchers are developing new methods to harvest these unusual sources,

facilitate ease of access to finance to prototype their innovations. They

and we think that the whole world should endorse such research because it

adopt global principles of economic development while preserving the at-

holds the key to meet our future needs.

tributes of a strong locality and redesign their processes and systems to integrate both. Economically vibrant cities encourage small and medium as

“A new post, Minister of State for Happiness, will align and drive government policy to create social good and satisfaction” His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

well as large enterprises by providing regulations and policies to support them while focusing specially on encouraging small funding programs with low interests. It offers SME and entrepreneur’s affordable online services to increase their productivity and manage efficiently their services delivery. It advances and rewards responsible business practice in land, construction, real estate use & investment Cities promote entrepreneurial spirit in their universities and schools and create a culture of taking on second jobs creation in diverse economic sectors through part-time work policies.

An economically vibrant city is one that streamlines economic and investment procedures, lower local ownership requirement in order to encourage and attract foreign investments. A City should provide tenancy security to enable the poor to have secure ownership of their housing, so that they can use it when other resources of income are reduced.

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The City We Need has a SINGULAR IDENTITY AND SENSE OF

A safe city ensures equal access to employments and includes all multi-eth-

PLACE

nic communities in city-wide protection programs through empowering

Sense of place is a participatory and evolving aspect in the sustainability of

communication between its neighborhoods. Safety awareness programs

cities. Cities build a singular identity integrating the different communities

educate its citizens.

living in the city in one overreaching vision that is flexible and adaptable.

To run frequent city-wide campaigns involving the different constituencies

It develops research on relevant social issues that will inform program and

to point values that underline the essence of the city, brand and define city

policy development, promote community awareness to reduce all forms of

soul and identify city identity. These campaigns feed into an actionable set

abuse against women and children through educational outreach and es-

of strategies and values to be reflected in city communication tools, cultural

tablish Human trafficking institutes for safety of women & children. Safety

programming and public realm design. People are at the center of cities

depends on transparency through involving and communicating disaster

identities and thus embracing the sub-cultures of the multiple ethnicities

plans with the community in order to build their capacities in dealing with

in cities foster their sense of belonging and incite their cultural practices

the different potential disasters and run schooling programs to behave in

to enrich city life. Cities need to preserve and conserve their heritage en-

case of emergency situations. Local institutions support, help and train poor

compassing the different cultural practices, its architectural legacy and also

people, women and children in the organization.

significant public spaces that maintain the current identity of the city.

The City We Need is a HEALTHY CITY The City We Need is a SAFE CITY

A healthy city enforces public health regulations and invests in prevention

Safety in cities starts on a sub-local level protecting the family and its mem-

campaigns to promote awareness on the impact of urban health on citizens.

bers as the primary social unit of urban community and is strengthened on

A healthy city provides health insurance for all citizens. Educates global

a metropolitan level with a strategic overreaching safety prevention plans

population about health consequences and create a trend to get people

and civil protection plans addressing physical infrastructure, policy making

excited about exercise and healthy eating habits. Engage all levels of com-

and reporting systems that enable all citizens to use it across different age

munities and urban groups in initiatives to reduce pollution and promote

and income groups through an effective and affordable digital infrastruc-

awareness on health issues. A healthy city is a city that invests in more

ture. In large, a safe city is the direct product of social and economic Add

proactive methods of improvements in waste reduction, street lighting,

“resilient” to the title (vibrant & inclusive). Safety depends on good local

emergency notifications, traffic lights and environmental monitoring. It is a

governance that is accountable, transparent and responsible. Cities share

city that takes preventative methods to avoid or diminish poverty by better

and collaborate on best practices in making cities safe. A safe city depends

managing water and allocation of resources. A healthy city respect the prin-

on the collaboration of local agencies with international organization that

ciples of biophilic cities respecting at the same time its local characteristic

can build capacities for the protection of human rights especially for chil-

and adopts its indicators to monitor its relationship with nature as the main

dren and women.

driver for public health.

A healthy city is a city that respects its local climate and put in measures to encourage physical activity in different seasons. It is an also a city that

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proposes diverse experience during night and day using light, music and smart technology to add fun to its spaces and happiness to its atmospheres.

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The City We Need is MANAGED AT METROPOLITAN LEVEL

The City We Need is a JOYFUL AND TOLERANT CITY

City management depends on key areas; lead by it is led by visionary Lead-

The Tolerant City is the creation of primary school children (Young Urban

ership guided by a holistic master plan of good urban governors with the

Thinkers) who participated on the first day of the Future Cities Forum, Urban

principles of accountability, transparency and responsibility. Open data reg-

Thinker Campus Dubai on 10 January 2016. They expressed their wishes

ulations, which make data accessible to researchers, investors and service

and vision of their city by drawing pictures of it followed by conducting

developers via an integrated platform and enable devices, networks, appli-

round table discussion with their teachers and moderator about the same

cations, and data communicate with each other. It is a city that engages its

vision. Some of these were summarized herein:

citizens to contribute to the planning and execution of the city changes and ensure accurate feedback and enable a business ecosystem to bring city

Children expressed their vision for their city is to be joyful, full of green

departments, agencies, businesses, community groups, academics, and ur-

spaces and connected with nature. They drew plants, trees, animals as

ban developers together. It is a city that facilitates versatility of channels for

symbols of joy and a place where kids can play and interact. These activi-

employees for complaints submissions without the fear of being punished

ties fall under the principles of biophilic cities- cities that put green space

for it. It is a city that is managed at community level but also connected

as one of its central uses, protect and preserve its local species and provide

to and part of the leadership at the federal level to coordinate all parties

ecological corridors to enable its local animal species to not face migration

under city vision. A well-managed city uses public-private partnerships to

or extinction.

define use cases and sustainable business models and update regularly its regulation supporting fair allocation of resources and equal employment

The City We Need is tolerant was a significant drawing by one of the chil-

opportunities. It is a city that implements and executes its plans meeting

dren, drawing a church and a masjid next to each other envisioning the city

its key performance indicators on time and embraces a culture of timely

to be in harmony with all of the social and ethnic diversity.

execution of its urban programs and initiatives.

There is no poverty and hunger in a joyful and tolerant city. In this city, all children have access to schooling and enjoy the use of technology. The city is full of wonders and wonderlands.

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Key actors Each principle calls for a different mapping of the stakeholders involved in planning, managing and bringing to life The City We Need. As such, we have listed for each principle the different stakeholders and emphasized the role they can play in bringing these principles to the forefront.

Actors

Role Played

Government authorities (immi-

Modify immigrations policies to facilitate inclusion and equal rights to all regardless of

gration and citizenship centers)

color, religion or origin.

Municipalities

Represent the local authority level and have the capacity to link national targets to local context and assess the feasibility of different strategies to increase inclusion in urban areas; they are the container of accumulated urban knowledge within local communities which assists them in quickly distinguishing what can work.

Citizens

Play an active role in brainstorming and leading grass-root solutions to address diversity challenges.

The City We Need Is SO-

Non-Governmental

CIALLY INCLUSIVE

tions

Organiza-

Act as key representatives of the civil society and thus have access to more diverse base of ethnicities within the city in order to run surveys and take account of needs of the multiple urban communities.

Academia

Feed into conduct research and assist in understanding the deep structural urban phenomena hindering inclusion.

Media

Increasing cultural understanding through showcasing the different lifestyles within the city though sharing the same values across the same country.

Social Media campaign

Maximize the impact of best practices in diversity and inclusion for multi-ethnic urban communities.

Religious authorities

Promote peace and tolerance- universal values that all spiritual texts preach.

Local and federal governments

Facilitate partnerships with private sector and plan efficient infrastructure and city plans that are resilient reliable with transit oriented development and land and lead incentives programs.

Private sector The City We Need Is WELL

Work with government sector on city planning, design and place-making and technology.

Needs to be included in public private partnerships in order to contribute to the feasibility

PLANNED, WALKABLE AND

of public transit.

TRANSIT FRIENDLY Public sector

Lead urban planning in order to assess and forecast population, amenities needed, the amount of green space.

Residents and citizens

Inputs are invaluable to assess what are their walkability needs.

Weather forecast agency

Work with local authority on planning climate responsive.

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Actors

Role Played

Governments

Initiate city-wide programs and fund in partnership with the private sector renewable energy projects.

Non-governmental tions

organiza-

Tap to different social groups and thus can build awareness and build skills in recycling on a community level.

Local authorities

Major role in promoting local programs and also put guidelines and policies to encourage the regeneration of city’s environmental systems.

Financial institutions

Fund research on how to capture energy from new unfamiliar sources.

Academia

Has a role in engaging students in their city’s initiatives and raising awareness of how much and how they can minimize water waste for example.

Media and Social Media

Has an important role in raising awareness on energy efficiency, waste reduction and resource management.

Technology companies

To produce apps, devices to help with waste reduction and raise user’s consciousness of controlling water & electricity usage.

Federal governments

Adopt national marketing strategies for successful startups and brands.

Governments

Set up policies for public private partnership model in order to engage with the private sector.

Financing institutions

Collaboration and private banking would ease the provision of finance to Small and Medium enterprises.

Local authorities

Fund capacity buildings and business skills for entrepreneurs – Key actors in fostering and sustaining urban prosperity, facilitate incubation set ups for startups.

Economic institutions

Propose procurement policies favoring local products and pricing.

Local economic organizations and departments

Departments facilitate micro-finance for local businesses within neighborhood and communities.

INCLUSIVE (Includes: The

Academia

Promote entrepreneurial spirit in their learning objectives and curriculums.

City We Need is Affordable

Real estate institutions

Public and private sector set and agree on policies and regulations for residential spaces that accommodate all income levels such as rent to own programs and cap on rent rates or land pricing measures.

Transport and planning agencies

Ensure that urban areas of mixed income are linked through public transit to employment centers as transport is a main need for low income groups.

Telecommunications agencies

Ensure the affordability of internet access as it can provide equal access to online learning for disadvantaged social groups .Zoning authorities study Incentives for developers to build affordable housing units.

The City We Need Is a REGENERATIVE CITY

The City We Need Is ECONOMICALLY VIBRANT AND

and Equitable)

Planning for affordable housing has to be led by the public sector with active involvement of the private sector specially the real estate and finance institutions in order to devise the right framework to its design, construction, maintenance and cost and finance plans.

The City We Need has a SINGULAR IDENTITY AND SENSE OF PLACE

Local authorities

Responsible for brainstorming, assessing, advising, strengthening and promoting a city singular identity through research, workshops, awareness programs and programs and festivals.

All local authorities and community groups

Stakeholders on what is unique about their city and how it gives it a unique sense of place.

Local urban design authorities

Put guidelines, policies and strategies in order to define the way in which a city sense of place can be further strengthen and define the methodologies that need to be adopted on city level for Placemaking and architectural identity.

Social Media and Media channels

Provide platforms of networking and facilitate feedback channels to identify citizens with city identity

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Actors

Role Played

Government

Clear governance structure need to be established for coordination between the different agencies acting on city management issues to leverage synergies and devise disaster recovery plans and transport plans.

Public-Private partnership to increase city preparedness for disasters, awareness and education and providing social services to minorities and disadvantaged groups and subjects of violence

The City We Need is a SAFE CITY Local authorities

Need to be empowered in order to engage local community to be more inclusive and also to bond together, build online platforms for threats reporting, promote awareness on response in case of terrorist threat.

Non-Government organizations and community associations

Essential players in holding programs, events and capacity building workshops to break cultural-ethnic barriers, promote tolerance and foster community bonds.

Technology companies

Integrate intelligent solutions to improve traffic congestion and minimize accident deaths

Local authorities

Promote guidelines for Healthy offices. Planning agencies include within districts and neighborhoods public spaces for sporting activities. Run initiatives and raise awareness about pollution and healthy living.

Local educational institutions

Run city-wide sports programs promoting sporting events and programs.

The City We Need is a HEALTHY CITY

The City We Need is MAN-

Information sessions on Life style in educational curriculum for schools.

Local horticulture departments and national agricultural bodies

Raise awareness about home vegetable gardens – urban agriculture and roof gardens and facilitate access to seeds and planting supply through neighborhood communities.

Local nutritional NGO’s

Run campaigns to discourage fast food.

Non-governmental associations and community groups

Facilitate access to sporting facilities for women to encourage their inclusion in sporting events.

Government

Allows reflective thinking and differing points on how to tackle low performance activities.

Technology

An important sector in the urban economy in providing e-government and thus enables efficient online delivery of government services platform and online collaboration platform between the different agencies and authorities managing the city services and systems.

Residents

Key players in providing feedback through multiple communication channels on the level, quality of services and even advise local authorities on how to solve it benefitting from their local knowledge.

Local authorities

Raise awareness and engage inhabitants including children in their community through integrating volunteering programs into their schooling curriculum to educate them about working amongst groups of diverse ethnicity and religion.

Expos and exhibition management companies

Different culture is being displayed to showcase their habits, food, traditional games and clothes focusing on beauty in all of that. This can also integrate plays, costumes selling and language tutorials and fun games.

Academia

Plays an integral role in setting the reins free for children to be creative and innovative and engage in city’s activities and engagements through competitions and fun activities.

Technology companies

Facilitate Wi-Fi everywhere and produce applications to inform Future Urban Thinkers of what is happening around them.

Heads of Religions and Beliefs

Have a vital role in spreading awareness, transparency and involvement of all citizens in each other’s religious cultures and traditions.

Social Media and Media

Provide platform for citizens’ engagement.

AGED AT METROPOLITAN LEVEL

The City We Need is a JOYFUL AND TOLERANT CITY

“The post of Minister of State for Tolerance has been created to promote tolerance as a fundamental value in UAE society”

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Outstanding issues

4. Affordable Housing: to put in place regulations and criteria as well as incentives through giving land to developers for this purpose, partnering

There were some issues left unsolved due to several factors, of which a few

with private owners to reduce cost of development, giving financial

are: government regulations, high implementation costs, time limitations,

incentives to owners and buyers through banks. Establish a star system

lack of qualified staff or inflexible infrastructure and mostly fear of change.

by the government so that each company or bank working on facilitating discounted products/services to developers, owners or buyers of

Issues that are outstanding are:

affordable units will get a star that will guarantee a VIP service to this

1. Negative perception: Emirati citizens and Arabic residents in general

organization for any service requirement.

hold a negative image of public transit as it is viewed as not suitable for professional/executives or family usage due to the fact that the

5. Incentive programs to have clean business model incentive scheme

main users of it are laborers and lower income segment of the city who

through facilitating faster or easier service for their licensing and labor

cannot afford to buy their own cars therefore, most inhabitants are

visas for example for companies that commit to clean business model of

uncomfortable trading their cars for public transport

using recycled material, integrating solar energy, minimizing waste and/ or minimizing CO2 omissions.

2. Media: In order to promote a healthy city, we need to give media incentives to promote healthy living like healthy food and lifestyle

6. General perception: Inhabitants like to be included in a citywide

through advertisements/movies presented by role models for each age

identity and culture that help them define themselves thought it to the

group for example instead of unhealthy products and lifestyles.

point where they tend to forget what goes on outside of the boundaries of these cities like issues of climate change, pollution and increasing

3. Land ownership laws: to adjust laws and regulations in Dubai to

number of slums an few examples and we believe that these issues

allow selling public land to private owners or companies for better

should be at the top of everyone’s mind if we tend to work on a private-

utilization of the land or where these lands are given as “gifts” to

public partnership towards finding solutions for them. One important

developers with the condition of utilizing them to build “affordable

point was mentioned recently by His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin

housing”.

Rashid Al Maktoum: “BY 2020, EACH HOUSE SHOULD HAVE SOLAR PANALS ON ITS ROOF”. People should take these issues and statements seriously because renewable energy could solve and enormous number of problems with our world today.

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Speakers No.

Name

Position

Organization

Country

1

H.E. Frode Mauring

UN Resident Coordinator a.i. and UNDP Resident Representative a.i.

UN/UNDP UAE, Oman and Qatar

Palestinian Territory

2

Christine Auclair

Project Leader

World Urban Campaign at UN-HABITAT (United Kenya Nation Human Settlements Programme)

3

Yamina Djacta

Director

UN-Habitat New York Office

United States of America

4

Tarek El Sheik

Director

Un Habitat Program Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

5

Nicholas You

Director, Global Programs and Projects

Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation

China

6

Danielle Grossenbacher

World President for 2015-2016

International Real Estate Federation(FIABCI)

United States of America

7

Enrico Campagnoli

Senior Adviser

Il punto

Italy

8

Kirkor Ajderhanyan

Owner

107 Promenade

France

9

Vahagn Movsesyan

Vice-President IOC

International Real Estate Federation(FIABCI)

France

10

Dr. Aisha BinBishr

Director General at Smart Dubai Office

Smart Dubai Office, The Executive Office

United Arab Emirates

11

Dr. Abdulaziz Istaitieh

Economic Advisor

The Executive Council of Dubai Government

United Arab Emirates

12

Amna Ibrahim Al Mutawa

Counselor

Dubai Foundation for Women and Children

United Arab Emirates

13

Anita Chandra

Director, Behavioral and Policy Sciences DeRAND Corporation partmen

United States of America

14

Alexia Zwitkovits

Executive Secretary/Office Manager

OIER

Austria

15

Kari Aina Eik

Secretary General

OIER

Austria

16

Craig Plumb

Head of Research - Real Estate/Property in UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) and wider MENA region

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)

United Arab Emirates

17

Ethan Kent

President

Project for Public Spaces

United States of America

18

Daniel Cook

Director of Strategy and Planning

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

United Kingdom

19

Mark Walley

Regional Managing Director, EMEA

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

United Kingdom

20

Robert Jackson

Director

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

United Arab Emirates

21

De Clercq, Matthieu

Partner - Economic Development & Strategy - Public Sector

Oliver Wyman

United Arab Emirates

22

Didier Vancutsem

Secretary General International Society

ISOCARP

Germany

23

Dr. Husam Al Waer

Senior lecture, Place Making Promoter Dundee University & Associate in Kevin Murray United Kingdom &Sustainable-Urban Design Associates

24

Dr. Miozzo Agostino

Director General

The Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Italy

25

Dr. Philip Bouvier

Managing Partner

Urban Value Creation consulting

United Arab Emirates

26

Dr. Sung Soo Lim

Assistant Professor of Economics

American University of Dubai (AUD)

United Arab Emirates

27

Dr. Wolfgang Amann

Director

The Institute of Real Estate, Construction and Austria Housing Ltd. (IIBW)

28

Eng. Abdulla Al Shamsi

Executive Director

Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council

United Arab Emirates

29

Esam Al Mulla

Directorate of Water (GDW)

Sharjah Water & Electricity Authority (SEWA)

United Arab Emirates

30

Jana El Baba

Research Assistant

UNESCWA

Lebanon

31

Jason Munyan

Economic Affairs Officer

UNCTAD

Switzerland

Director of Strategic Planning

Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore (SUTD)

32

King Wang Poon

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No.

Name

Position

Organization

Country

33

Lev Levin

Director, IoE Market Development

CISCO

United Arab Emirates

34

Martin Dubbeling

Research, consultancy, design, and communication in sustainable urban and regional Connecting Cities planning

Netherlands

35

Maysa Sabah

Managing Director, GCC Region

Affordable Housing Institute

United Arab Emirates

36

Mourad Limam

Associate Principal

McKinsey & Company

United Arab Emirates

37

Nadine Bitar

CEO & Adjunct professor - Urban Design/ Interior Design

Placemaking.me / Americal University of Dubai

United Arab Emirates

38

Peter Danner

Managing Director

Sendhybrid GmbH

Austria

39

Philip Nardin

Head of International Relations Missions

General Directorate for Civil protection

France

40

Professor Dr. Piotr Lorens

Head of the Department

Gdansk University of Technology

Poland

41

Professor Lim Lan Yuan

President

International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI-Singapore)

Singapore

42

Rajan Israni

Chairman

Sun & Sand Developers

United Arab Emirates

43

Safdar Nazir

Regional Vice President - Smart City & IoT

Huawei Technologies

United Arab Emirates

44

Sandra Baer

Business Development Professional

Personal Cities

United States of America

45

Stefania Masseroni

Research Fellow

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

46

Steve Scott

Director of Urban Programs - MENA region

CH2M

United Arab Emirates

47

Tariq Ahmed Nizami

Founder & CEO

CEO Club

United Arab Emirates

48

Telman Abbasov

Owner

TITUL

Ukraine

49

Wolfgang Engshuber

Advisory Council Member

World CSR

India

List of all countries present 1. Australia 2. Austria 3. Bangladesh 4. Botswana 5. Burundi 6. Canada 7. China 8. Cote D’Ivoire 9. Djibouti 10. Egypt 11. France 12. Gambia 13. Germany 14. India

15. Italy 16. Jordan 17. Kenya 18. Kuwait 19. Lebanon 20. Liberia 21. Mali 22. Mexico 23. Netherlands 24. Nigeria 25. Pakistan 26. Poland 27. Qatar 28. Russian Federation

29. Saudi Arabia 30. Senegal 31. Singapore 32. South Korea 33. State of Palestine 34. Switzerland 35. Togo 36. Ukraine 37. United Arab Emirates 38. United Kingdom 39. United States of America 40. Zimbabwe

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