Integrated Urban Planning Workshop
12 December 2013

Philippines

This learning event focused on knowledge exchange among external and internal experts in developing and discussing steps on how to best involve cities from Asian Development Bank's developing member countries through the Integrated Urban Planning approach. The workshop included presentations from external experts/resource persons, as well as ADB urban staff from the Operational Department wherein practical experiences, challenges, and approaches for integrated urban planning have been showcased and discussed. It also tackled an overview on ongoing and future urban activities and potential cities for integrated planning exercises, including some projects under ADB’s Urban Financing Partnership Facility.

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Workshop Opening Welcome Remarks Gil-Hong Kim
Workshop Opening Metropolitan Regions: The Key City Clusters in Asia
This presentation explains the concepts of urban development and integrated development planning, and differentiates urban regions from Metropolitan…
Edward Leman
Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions Overview on Ongoing and Future Urban Activities
This presentation provides an overview that includes the development challenges of the Central and West Asia region. It focuses on the lending…
Nargiza Talipova
Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions Integrated Urban Planning Approach by ADB's East Asia Department
This presentation discusses the urban portfolio of Asian Development Bank’s East Asia Department (EASS) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and…
Arnaud Heckmann
Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions Integrated Urban Planning and Development
This presentation provides an overview of Asian Development Bank’s South Asia Urban Development and Water Division (SAUW) business line. The…
Vijay Padmanabhan
Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions Green Cities Initiative
This presentation shows how green cities bridge urban planning and environmental management. It discusses the Green Cities Initiative of Asian…
Sonia Chand Sandhu
Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions Pacific Region
This presentation enumerates the characteristics and challenges of urban areas in the Pacific region. It discusses the cross-cutting focus areas of…
Allison Woodruff
Roundtable Discussion Summary of Presentations and the Urban Directors' Roundtable Discussions Alexandra Vogl
Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches New Town Development in Korea: Integrated Planning Processes and Involvement of Stakeholders of Bundang and Sejong City
This presentation shares lessons learned from the Bundang New Town and Sejong Multifunctional Administrative City projects in the Republic of Korea…
Seong Soo Kim
Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches
Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches An Insight to Singapore’s Integrated Master Planning
This presentation discusses how Singapore, despite its constraints as a city-state, was able to develop and carry out an integrated and sustainable…
Kai Yeng Wong
Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches Urban Challenge and City Development of Yokohama
Japan's Yokohama City has a grand masterplan that would address challenges related to rapid growth and urbanization. This presentation covers…
Toru Hashimoto
Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches From Risk Barriers to Results: Managing the Social, Political, and Environmental Risks of Urban Infrastructure
This presentation, highlighting the use of a resilience perspective, demonstrates how the challenges of urbanization create a new vulnerability…
Richard Friend
Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches Addressing Disaster Risk through Improved Indicators and Land Use Management: Inception Phase Findings and Linkages to the Green Cities Initiative
Countries are becoming increasingly aware of the need for improved disaster risk management (DRM) practices. Urban DRM measures, however, are planned…
John Bachmann

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Alexandra Vogl

ADB Organizer/s

  • Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Topics

  • Urban Development