Events

Integrated Urban Planning Workshop

12 December 2013

Manila

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:

12 Dec 2013

Date	Session / Activity	Presentation Material	Speaker(s)
12 Dec 2013	Workshop Opening	Welcome Remarks	Gil-Hong Kim
12 Dec 2013	Workshop Opening	Metropolitan Regions: The Key City Clusters in Asia Thispresentation explains the concepts of urban development and integrated development planning, and differentiates urban regions from Metropolitan Regions...	Edward Leman
12 Dec 2013	Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions	Overview on Ongoing and Future Urban Activities Thispresentation provides an overview that includes the development challenges of the Central and West Asia region. It focuses on the lending portfolio...	Nargiza Talipova
12 Dec 2013	Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions	Integrated Urban Planning Approach by ADB's East Asia Department Thispresentation discusses the urban portfolio of Asian Development Bank’s East Asia Department (EASS) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Mongolia...	Arnaud Heckmann
12 Dec 2013	Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions	Integrated Urban Planning and Development Thispresentation provides an overview of Asian Development Bank’s South Asia Urban Development and Water Division (SAUW) business line. The developmental...	Vijay Padmanabhan
12 Dec 2013	Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions	Green Cities Initiative Thispresentation shows how green cities bridge urban planning and environmental management. It discusses the Green Cities Initiative of Asian Development...	Sonia Chand Sandhu
12 Dec 2013	Presentations by Regional Urban Divisions	Pacific Region Thispresentation enumerates the characteristics and challenges of urban areas in the Pacific region. It discusses the cross-cutting focus areas of Asian...	Allison Woodruff
12 Dec 2013	Roundtable Discussion	Summary of Presentations and the Urban Directors' Roundtable Discussions	Alexandra Vogl
12 Dec 2013	Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches	New Town Development in Korea: Integrated Planning Processes and Involvement of Stakeholders of Bundang and Sejong City Thispresentation shares lessons learned from the Bundang New Town and Sejong Multifunctional Administrative City projects in the Republic of Korea. The...	Seong Soo Kim
12 Dec 2013	Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches	Korean Strategy for Low-Carbon Green City Thispresentation provides an overview of a low-carbon green city. It features national level projects and best practice cases that have employed the low...	Kwang Ik Wang
12 Dec 2013	Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches	An Insight to Singapore’s Integrated Master Planning Thispresentation discusses how Singapore, despite its constraints as a city-state, was able to develop and carry out an integrated and sustainable city...	Kai Yeng Wong
12 Dec 2013	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. Thispresentation covers Yokohama'...	Toru Hashimoto
12 Dec 2013	Practical Experiences, Challenges, and Approaches	From Risk Barriers to Results: Managing the Social, Political, and Environmental Risks of Urban Infrastructure Thispresentation, highlighting the use of a resilience perspective, demonstrates how the challenges of urbanization create a new vulnerability context...	Richard Friend
12 Dec 2013	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