Events

EVENT:

The inaugural Financial Times Urban Development Summit, to be held in partnership with the UK Programme of Events at Shanghai World Expo 2010, will bring together municipal leaders, urban planners, designers and investors to discuss the most effective and sustainable solutions to the massive challenges of urbanisation.

Building on the FT’s successful series of Urban Regeneration Summits, the Urban Development Summit will showcase best practice and the sharing of expertise by urban planners in the UK, China and beyond across a range of key topics including renewal of industrial cities, creation of knowledge hubs, energy efficiency, and innovation in financing.

The conference will also feature an exclusive panel of UK and Chinese mayors, and the announcement of the results of a unique UK-China government dialogue on sustainable urban development.

Issues to be addressed include:

• How would the UK’s model of urban regeneration be adapted to cities in China, and what would Chinese planners do to avoid some of the failures in social regeneration that still affect British cities?

• What are the key steps that planners need to take to move cities from the industrial sector to the knowledge sector and what conditions should be present to ensure success?

• China has begun to develop a number of energy efficient eco-cities. How can such concepts be adapted to existing, older urban areas? What can the UK learn from countries such as China?

• What are the most successful examples of innovative urban investment-raising schemes around the world and how can they be adapted to countries such as the UK and China?

• What regulatory frameworks and incentives have to be established to attract sufficient levels of investment from the private sector?

Downloadable documents

Summit overview and agenda