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Mega-Cities
In Association with Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission
Mega-cities, the increasing number of urban areas with a population in excess of 10 million, have the potential to be the leading hubs of the global economy if they effectively address the challenges caused by rapid growth and concentrated poverty.
Current and future solutions to these challenges will be a main focus of the fourth FT Urban Development Summit, which will gather city leaders, investors, urban planners, designers and infrastructure firms from around the world in the major Chinese city of Chongqing.
As one of the world's largest and fastest-growing metropolitan areas, Chongqing is not only spearheading China's drive to develop its Western regions, it is becoming a litmus test for the future of city management.
How will mega-cities like Chongqing look by the year 2030? Faced with continued challenges in terms of infrastructure, demographics and economics, how do decision-makers plan for an agglomeration of tens of millions of people with diverse identities? What solutions are being found around the world to provide sustainable and financially viable living and working environments across such broad and heavily populated urban areas? What can the urban sprawl of Jakarta and Manila learn from new-build strategies in cities such as Chongqing?
What can an ageing population in Tokyo - the world's largest city - tell other Asian mega-cities where more than 20 per cent of the population was born after 1989? What does Mexico City's battle with air pollution have to say to Chinese cities where car ownership is relatively low and yet traffic is already at capacity? Do cities as diverse in structure as Istanbul, Mumbai, Seoul, and Sao Paulo offer lessons on urban restructuring that others can follow?
The FT Urban Development Summit will feature in-depth discussions and case studies covering key issues faced by mega-cities and highlighting best practice in planning, design and financing.
Topics to be covered include:
- Policy and strategy: leadership of urban development and political structure
- Economy: Can mega-cities be productive and efficient business centres?
- Sustainability: Growth and the implications for the environment
- Transportation: Mass transit, traffic management and the challenges of air pollution
- Energy: How will we power the mega-city of the future?
- Intelligent Cities: What role will technology play in making mega-cities sustainable?
- Design: Does new-build mean poor-build? How design is shaping emerging mega-cities
- Rural and urban divide: Will mega-cities continue to swallow up the countryside?
- Demographics: How should a mega-city absorb a rapidly growing population?
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