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Global City 2009, Abu Dhabi 20-21 January 2009
20-01-2009, Source: Urbanicity.org
Introduction
Abu Dhabi's emphasis on sustainable urban development and its growing status as a global hub for business and tourism will receive a major thrust early next year when the world's top urban planners, decision-makers, mayors and international media will gather in the capital to participate in Global City 2009.
Description
Global City is an annual international forum organised by Reed Exhibitions enabling urban development decision-makers to share and learn lessons and solutions in building sustainable cities. Global City Abu Dhabi 2009 is the fourth edition of the event and the first outside Europe. After its successful Cannes launch in 2005, the second and third editions of the event were held in Lyon in 2006 and 2007.
This year’s programme will focus on the challenge of being a sustainable city in a global world, looking at both constraints and opportunities. It will address the key factors of success for a city in the short term as well as in a much longer term, providing a vision of the sustainable and global city.
The Leaders’ Summit & Lunch: focused on urban leadership challenges, this closed-door meeting is exclusively for city leaders and by invitation only. It provides an opportunity for them to meet with their international counterparts, share their personal visions of sustainability, and discuss the pressing issues that face their communities.
Among topics covered in the 2009 program:
  • Is culture a driver for sustainability?
  • Hosting global events, a catalyst for a city sustainable development?
  • An academic approach to the globalization of world sustainable cities.
  • Environmental innovation for strong economic development.
  • Living Laboratories, a new way of creating competitiveness.
  • Connecting the unconnected.
  • How can immigration significantly contribute to city success? Rethinking multi-culturalism.
  • Citizens' partnership and new ecological neighbourhoods.
  • Waterfront Investment: A booster for city globalization? How to reconnect port infrastructure to the city.
  • From green neighbourhoods to sustainable cities.
  • The new ecological cities: learn from the latest experience.
  • Liveable cities, the benefit of urban environmental planning
  • Disaster resilience cities.
  • Security in a growing city.
  • Redesigning public realm through public transport strategies.
  • How to develop transport that promotes urban density?
  • Environmental services and clean technologies: waste, water, energy and transport. What are the constraints and opportunities for cities today?
Programme
For more information on the programme and registration, click here.
Location
Emirates Palace Hotel
West End Corniche, Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Tel +971 2 690 9000
Fax +971 2 690 9999
Register
Links
Click here to visit the Global City 2009 website
Files
Download the conference brochure (PDF, Eng, 2.40 MB)

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