Planning For Good Cities : Cities That Sustain For The Next 100 Years

Group Photo with Regional Planning Agency and Tourism Board of Denpasar City Government in Public Private Partnership by Youth in Denpasar(Jan 2020)

Inspired by the latest global development of urban governance, with the establishment of G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance(with World Economic Forum as Secretariat) in 2019, Good City Foundation is launching the featured side-session “Planning For Good Cities” in the coming Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 in Hong Kong and Hangzhou, virtually on 16th and 17th December, with Hong Kong Cyberport as a live-stream studio, sponsored by InvestHK(investment promotion agency of Hong Kong government).

The Planning For Good Cities is a virtual roadshow of selected 10 emerging cities in South and Southeast Asia for engaging further with the ecosystem of Future City Summit and Good City Foundation, in a good will for enhancing stronger understanding and capacity of city governments in technology governance, affordable and dynamic urban planning, liveability design for next generations and peer-cities collaboration.

Engagement with City Governments in Bandung City(Middle: Vice Mayor), Denpasar City(Right: Mayor) and Urban Design Training with Harvard Graduate School of Design(Left: Regional Planning of Denpasar) in Development Programs in Indonesia (Jan 2019–2020)

The roadshow would be conducted and presented by the Mayors, Governors, Heads of Smart City Planning and Urban Development in corresponding offices. The roadshow expects to create an outcome of further pipeline of the cities to the larger pool of resources and leads of domains experts from G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance and World Economic Forum. This is also expected a consortium of private sectors would come together for bridging better cities financing for urban development of equality and quality.

Private Meeting on Philippines Data Economics(Left: Vinci Roxas, Lab.PH); Keynote Speaking of the Youngest Mayor in The Philippines, Arth Bryan Celeste(Middle) and Panel Dialogue with Town Planner of Urban Development Authority of Sri Lanka on Colombo Business District Planning(Right)

The Roadshow Committee is comprised of a group of visionary development financing and planning professionals from multilateral agencies, regional impactful startups and corporates, from World Bank IFC(Upstreaming), InvestHK, ASEAN Smart Cities Network E-Forum, UN agencies…which seek for new modeling and planning strategy as Post-Pandemic Recovery Agenda.

Inquiries: operation@futurecitysummit.org(Ms. Natalie Lam) / ming@futurecitysummit.org(Mr. Andre Kwok)

Other Links:

1. World Economic Forum to Lead G20 Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance
2. Emerging Cities: Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 for Post-Pandemic Recovery and Overcoming Socio-economic Capacity Trap among Emerging Asia and Africa
3. Re-engineering Hong Kong (People): A City (and The People) That Matters Asia and The World For Current and Next 3 Generations
4. Optimising Cities: Can We Think and Plan for the Next 100 Years?