The International New Town Institute is organizing a very promising conference in Rotterdam on september 27. The main theme is the privatization of cities. With South Korea’s ‘advanced smart & connected community’ New Songdo as one of its case studies.
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: 9:00 – 19:00
Place: NAI, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cost: €200 excl. VAT
Language: English
Global urbanization is moving at a faster pace than ever before and while it may look like the same old story, a fundamental shift is taking place just beneath the surface. Hundreds of new cities are being developed as totally privatized cities. This growing privatization has led to a changed dynamic between client, investor, developer, designer, builder and end-user. The organizational models shift with each new urban development as alliances, politics and financial interests change.
The conference explores the latest innovations in global urbanization, privatization and new organizational models of urban development as well as the impact and challenges for professional practice.
What does it mean when cities are privatized? Who are the new players in the field of urban development? What are their agenda’s? What visions, ambitions and strategies do they use? What innovations and financial models make these new cities possible? How are they governed? How can we secure public interests in a private city on the long term? And, perhaps most importantly: how will these new approaches change the quality of life in our future cities?
Four case studies
To help answer these questions, the conference explores four newly constructed cities as inspiration and a starting point for the discussion: New Songdo near Incheon (South Korea); Lavasa near Pune (India); Strand East in London (United Kingdom) and PlanIT Valley near Porto (Portugal).
Speakers
Speakers will include key-representatives from: CISCO, Lavasa Corporation Ltd, Royal Haskoning/ DHV, HOK, Landprop/ InterIKEA, Municipality of Newham, TU Delft, Living PlanIT, Buro Happold, Balonas Menano Architects, the Institute for International Development, New Cities Foundation, PopertyEU and independent critics. An overview of the speakers can be found here [http://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article667}
Organization
This is the 5th International Conference organized by the International New Town Institute (INTI). New Towns | New Territories is organized in collaboration with the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (I&M). A special follow-up publication will be done in partnership with Volume magazine. Online documentation will be provided by tegenlicht.vpro.nl.
Register here [http://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article664]
More information can be found here [http://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article662]
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Conference Program
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome, coffee and tea
09:30 – 10:00 Opening Session (30 min).
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1: New Songdo, Korea (90 min).
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee and tea, networking break
12:00 – 13:30 Session 2: Strand East, United Kingdom (90 min)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Session 3: Lavasa, India (90 min)
Parallel Session 4: PlanIT Valley, Portugal (90 min)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and tea, networking break
16:30 – 17:30 Closing session (90 min)
17:30 – 19:00 Drinks
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