A roundtable discussion bringing together London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and the built environment community to explore the role of demonstrator districts in the future of our cities.

The combinations of metropolitan population growth, economic change, and climate transition place new demands on districts across our cities. The recent acceleration of new modes of work, services, education, consumption, logistics, travel, and leisure are rapidly remaking our cities and creating a new imperative for agility and re-engineering of places. We can use these imperatives to drive new quality and resilience into our urban districts to make them more adaptable going forwards. 

 

This allows for opportunities to create a new generation of districts that can combine multiple roles in new mixes to achieve dynamic and resilient places that meet multiple aims.    

 

In our 4th Cities roundtable, we turn to Asia Pacific cities and partners to discover what makes a demonstrator district for the future of our cities. By demonstrator district we mean places that showcase the future of urbanism with a focus on sustainability, inclusivity, health, experience, identity, and agility. These are the districts that set new standards in city making and inspire a generation of other districts to follow suit.    

  

Where are they and what makes them work? 

Join us to hear from London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and the built environment community to explore the role of demonstrator districts in the future of our cities. 

08:00
Introduction from the Chair
Prof Greg Clark, Senior Advisor, NLA

08:05
Presentations from each city:
David Tan, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, JTC, Singapore
Peter John Cantrill, Project Manager, City of Sydney
Paul Zimmerman, Chief Executive Officer, Designing Hong Kong

08:45
Q&A from the audience

09:00   
Roundtable discussion
Speakers above, plus: Monique Suksmaningsih, Head of Singapore Studio, Broadway Malyan

09:40
Closing comments

09:45
End