Innovative City-Building in Asia Pacific: What’s Next?

Asia Pacific Forum:

Innovative City-Building in Asia’s Megacities: What’s Next?

 

As investment horizons approach mid-21st Century, megacities in the Asia Pacific are now widely recognized as generators globally-leading practices in city-building.  With powerful market fundamentals, voracious demand for information technologies and entirely new urban mobility networks, Asia Pacific’s cities are the testbeds for unprecedented and innovative urban solutions.  In this fast-paced, multi-session forum, we ask experts from across the Asia Pacific region to share their insights into evolving markets and the practice of managing change, and their pursuit of “What’s Next?”

 

This session has been curated in a partnership between ULI Asia Pacific and Georgetown University’s Global Cities Initiative.  Audience participation in content generation will be conducted throughout the event utilizing Sli.do. 

 

 

EVENT DETAILS:

 

Time:                2:00 PM – 5:00 PM with reception to follow.

Date:                Tuesday, September 17, 2019

 

Location:           Georgetown University Downtown Campus – Main Auditorium

                           640 Massachusetts Avenue NW

                           Washington, D.C.  20001

 

 

AGENDA

 

 

1:00      Registration and Networking

 

Casual Networking with Light Refreshments on the Overlook.

 

 

2:00      Welcoming Remarks

 

Uwe S. Brandes, Professor of Practice; Faculty Director, Georgetown Global Cities Initiative

John Fitzgerald, CEO, ULI Asia Pacific

 

 

2:15      The Impact of Asia’s Cities on Global Urban Innovation

 

Judy Baker, Lead Economist, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank Group

 

 

2:45      Supporting New Metropolitan Frameworks

 

Communities are rising within powerful megaregions of an unprecedented size and scale.  Market agglomerations are driving new typologies of metropolitan form and governance.  With legacy regions (Tokyo-Osaka, Greater Bay Area), rapidly emerging regions (Jing-Jin-Ji, Yangtze Delta) and frontier regions (Singapore-KL, Hanoi and Manila), urban markets across Asia Pacific are connected in new ways.

 

Presenters:

Qizhi Mao, Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Teng Chye Khoo, Executive Director, Centre for Livable Cities

 

Respondent:

Chris Brooke, Co-Founder, Brooke Husband Limited; President, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

 

Moderator:

Ken Rhee, Chief Representative to Mainland China, Urban Land Institute

 

 

3:15      Building Community; Making Place

 

Radical transformation of local economies is transforming some of civilization’s oldest urban settlements.  New communities are rising overnight with entirely new compositions of urban form, building typologies and the social capital which comprises community.  New cities and old cities stand side-by-side; digital frameworks collide with ancient modes of production.  What’s next for the making of community and place in the sustainable, low-carbon Asia-Pacific city?

 

Presenters:

Andrew Hoyne, Founder & Principal, Hoyne

Chenxi Wang, Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute

 

Respondents:

Jordan Sand, Professor, Asian Studies and History, Georgetown University

Alexandra Gray, Head of Research, Mirvac Real Estate Pty Ltd

             

Moderator:

Uwe S. Brandes

 

 

3:45      Imagining New Urban Futures in Asia-Pacific

 

Can we explore new priorities for innovators in Asia’s megacities as we collectively envision: “What’s Next?”  Instructions using Sli.do will be distributed in advance of the event and responses will inform future collaborative research between ULI Asia and the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative.

 

Presenter: 

Uwe S. Brandes

 

 

4:00      Delivering Sustainable Outcomes

 

How will communities, investors, developers and public officials come together to build the sustainable, low-carbon city that we need?  Where do the attractive pockets of new value reside and where do we expect to find new forms of risk? 

 

Presenters:

Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer, City Developments Limited

Ellen Lou, Director of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

 

Respondent:

Jaime von Klemperer, President, KPF

 

Moderator:

Tiffany Lau, Executive Director, ULI Hong Kong

 

 

4:30      The Future of Urban Development Partnerships

 

What are the new partnerships will be able to deliver the future we want in Asia Pacific’s megacities?  

 

Goodwin Gaw, Chairman and Managing Principal, Gaw Capital

 

 

4:50      Conclusion

 

John Fitzgerald

Uwe S. Brandes

 

 

4:55      Adjourn

 

 

5:00      Reception for all Participants

 

Please join us for a spirited reception at Founders & Distillers, only a few steps away at 600 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Farmers & Distillers is inspired by our country’s original founding father. Most know Washington as America’s first president and highly respected general, but he was also an acclaimed farmer, distiller, and entrepreneur ahead of his time. President Washington’s American industriousness and keen eye for opportunity are built into the very foundation of this country and into every aspect of Farmers & Distillers.

 

 

About ULI Asia Pacific

Across Asia Pacific, the Urban Land Institute has more than 2,100 members, with a particularly strong presence in Australia (Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney), China Mainland (Beijing and Shanghai), Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea. The regional office is headquartered in Hong Kong.

 

About the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative

An academic community dedicated to creating and sharing inter-disciplinary knowledge of cities, their communities and the opportunities associated with unprecedented global urbanization.