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While this moment in the city&rsquo;s post-COVID economic recovery holds great potential, significant challenges continue to face the city. Tackling these challenges will require a comprehensive, collaborative effort bringing together the business community, labor unions, neighborhood advocates, faith leaders, educators, and New Yorkers across the five boroughs. In this session, NYCEDC President &amp; CEO Andrew Kimball will share highlights of New York City&rsquo;s Blueprint for Economic Recovery and the path towards a brighter, better future for the city.

Rebuilding, Reinventing, and Renewing NYC

Being a global city has always been synonymous with international economic activity. Increasingly, the world's most future-fit cities and economies are taking bold stances and encouraging major commitments inspired by global trends and anchored in ESG principles. From net-zero skyscrapers to green business parks, this conversation with Oxford Properties Group President Michael Turner will discuss the role institutions can play in the delivery of projects and ideas that shape cities to the needs of their citizens.

Building Better

Over the last decade, great strides have been made in reducing the operational CO2 emissions of buildings. But even as we design buildings that perform better operationally, embodied carbon emissions arising from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, and disposal of building materials continue to grow &ndash; the production of cement alone is responsible for 8% of all global CO2 emissions. Meeting 2030 emission targets and driving down the whole life carbon footprint of buildings will require radical changes in how we design, develop and build moving forward. This panel will discuss strategies and policies cities and developers implement to reduce embedded carbon and how we can work together to build a cleaner future.

Confronting the Climate Crisis

Place des Montr&eacute;alaises will transform the urban landscape of Montr&eacute;al by linking the city&rsquo;s downtown and Old Montr&eacute;al &ndash; its historic center. The design for this inclusive public space reframes the women of Montr&eacute;al at the heart of the city&rsquo;s evolution. Through the work of a collaboration of women, the public memory of women in the city&rsquo;s history is being rewritten through two radically different topographies in a convergence of Montreal-inspired subtleties. This presentation will discuss the evolution of the project since being awarded the international design competition in 2018 and how cities can recognize women in both the literal and metaphorical heart of the city.

Recognizing Women in the City

Patrik Schumacher and Mytaverse are designing a virtual self-governed city in the metaverse. The digital town will feature ZHA&rsquo;s signature style in the form of a city hall, collaborative working spaces, and even galleries selling NFTs. Zaha Hadid Architects&rsquo; cyber-world is a not-so-subtle nod to a real place: the Free Republic of Liberland, a 2.7-mile-long micronation squeezed between Serbia and Croatia.

Welcome to the Virtual City

While the occupancy of offices in most central business districts remains well below 50%, domestic visitors' visits exceed pre-pandemic levels in many cities. Is the future of downtown a place to play rather than work? Are we in a new era of pleasure + people + place? If so, how do we grab the opportunity?

Rise of the Central Social District

What role should brands and corporations play in placemaking? No doubt a corporate giant in your downtown can affect massive gravitational pull for talent and economic growth, but when we blur the lines between a company&rsquo;s mandate and a community&rsquo;s vision, what forces need to be amplified or recalibrated to create places where livelihoods and livability come first?

Corporate Urbanism

NYC&rsquo;s development of an equitable greenway network is in motion. The network will increase mobility options, reduce emissions and improve climate resilience, introduce new open spaces, promote health and active lifestyles, and create new jobs and economic activity.

IGNITE TALK

No part of the city has been impacted by the pandemic more than a city&rsquo;s downtown. With remote and hybrid work seemingly here to stay, how will we make our downtowns work moving forward? And how do we plan long-term for a future that looks radically different from the past? This session will bring together voices from New York, Austin, Calgary, and San Francisco to find out.

The Death and Life of Downtowns

Black Lives American Love; Gentrification vs. Revitalization: There are ways to get this right and love our cities and communities. Our solutions are in front of the problem. How can cities build intentionally to uplift society?

When thinking about urban renewal and bringing our cities back to life, we often forget to address the poetics of the city as we imagine its future. Moments matter, and we must all think - and act - as experience creators.

Moment Lab

We are seeing a new global phenomenon called &ldquo;double aging&rdquo;, which involves the aging of the population and the concurrent aging of the building stock. This double-aging is particularly intense in Hong Kong, given the rapid growth of the city&rsquo;s elderly population and its ultra-high building density. This problem is worsened by stratified ownership. A people-centric and place-based "vertical urbanism" approach to urban renewal will help address Hong Kong's double aging challenges, and has the potential to create added liveability, improve health and allow our elderly to become more resilient. Behave and its research partner will share their insights, experiences, and best practices regarding tackling double aging in Hong Kong.

Addressing the Challenges of an Aging City

As cities become denser, we spend more and more time in spaces and places at the ground level, between buildings. How do our experiences intersect with the spaces that lie between us? How does the design and curation of spaces catalyze social connection and encourage people to linger? How do we embrace nature as part of the urban realm?

Between the Buildings

The idea of a World City is that it is a super-concentration of globalized activities, services, connections, and people. Consequently, these cities generally grew faster than less globally connected places, and saw significant investment and rapid development in their real estate, amenities, public spaces, and infrastructures. But even prior to the pandemic, there was already concern that World Cities were facing increasing sustainability challenges in housing supply, affordability, air quality, and inequality. The pandemic revealed the depth of some of these challenges and accelerated other imperatives for change. So, what&rsquo;s next for World Cities? Will they emerge more robust and more capable, or will we see their magnetic power diluted? Urbanist Greg Clark chats with leaders in Singapore and Sydney to find out.

The Future of World Cities in AsiaPacific

Chris Fair

Kristina Lao

Helle Søholt

Dr. Bahiyyah Maroon

Fady Atallah

Mary Rowe

Arsha Cazazian-Clement

Lynn M. Ross

Brooks Rainwater

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

Marion Waller

Manish Vora

Jason Long

Patrik Schumacher

Gary Pooni

Kate Raworth

Kirby Liu

Bettina Zerza

Gabriel Metcalf

Jorick Beijer

Derek Gange

Janera Soerel

Andre Brumfield

Cara Eckholm

Greg Clark

Ethan Kent

Will Craig

Chrystal Burns

Andrew King

Signe Kongebro

Cecilia Kushner

Micah Kotch

Geerte Udo

Elizabeth Mildwater

Harmen Van Sprang

Sharon Landes Fischer

Robin Guenther

Laura Citron

Thom Mahler

Sarah Walsh

Steven Pedigo

Fiona Cousins

Stephen Ritz

Andy Lantz

Philippe Chiambaretta

Angela Silver

Regina Myer

Andrew Kimball

Michael Turner

Thomas Heatherwick

Jay Cross

Eran Chen

Claire Johnston

Bryant Lu

Alexa Arena

Jeff Shapack

MK Leung

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Edward Ng

Christine Loh

Greg Hart

William Ruh

Sofie Kvis

Anupam Yog

Yu-Ning Hwang

Howard Hughes

Tim Hasid

Gracen Chungath

Oliver Lang

Paul Goldberger

Thomas F. Prendergast

Marc Norman

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