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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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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”.
World Urban Campaign @urbancampaign
9 Jan 2016
“It’s not about technology. It’s about what technology enables.” - King Wang Poon, representing the city of #Singapore. https://twitter.com/urbancampaign/status/686074643497762816
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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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