What's Next in Making Cities Resilient and Planning Healthy Urban Growth?

A whole-systems approach to better prioritize projects, plan ahead, protect vulnerable assets and provide sustainable growth. Cities have become the front line for many of the world’s most pressing challenges, from climate change, water scarcity and air quality, to economic disruption, public health and social instability.

The scope of these issues extends beyond individual departments or agencies, beyond city boundaries and beyond the public sphere or private sector.Yet it’s essential that cities find solutions. In the next 20 years, the world’s urban population will grow by more than two billion people. We are in the midst of the urban century.

Fortunately, cities have the capacity to address these global challenges—and meet local demands. At their best, cities have a density that makes transportation and housing more efficient, reduces per capita resource and energy use and lowers carbon emissions. They boost individual mobility and opportunity and drive economic growth. They foster diversity, creativity and social progress.
Building successful cities is essential to creating a more sustainable world.

Which is why we’re asking the question, what’s next in making cities resilient? How do we plan for healthy urban growth? The answer lies in a new approach: a whole-systems approach to better prioritize projects, plan ahead, protect vulnerable assets and provide sustainable growth. Thispresentation will discuss some of the ways we’re pursuing to connect the best ideas and insight, from across communities, professions and regions and from public and private sectors, to help cities overcome their challenges and build a brilliant future.

The dialog will focus on:

- Prioritization: Capital asset reliability: Getting infrastructure right.
- Planning: Climate adaptation: Minimizing tomorrow’s risks today.
- Protecting: Secure systems and cities: Staying safe for the long term.
- Providing: Economic development: Enabling sustainable growth.

Pulling from international case studies Mr. Dunn will examine the key themes in the context of South East Asia, work that is at the forefront of this dialog and areas that need intervention to create better outcomes.

Join Mr Scott Dunn, VP Strategy & Growth SEA of AECOM, Malaysia at iCities Conference today!
 

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