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VIDEO | URBAN PRESSURES ACROSS THE MEASA REGION

As our climate warms, is it time to build the world in a city instead of cities in the world?

In this session, recorded during Sustainable Cities in Action Forum 2024, you will learn more about this intriguing provocation raised during an animated discussion between leading urban planners and developers from the MEASA region about the pressures facing cities of the global south.

Moderated by Charles Landry, Author, Chair of the BMW Foundation RISE Cities Sounding Board and Co-founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, the session, features:

  • Bushra Afreen, Chief Heat Officer, Dhaka North City Corporation

  • Dr Charles Konyango, National Director of Urban Development, Kenya Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development

  • Mona Noureldin Husen, Head of Strategic Planning and Studies Unit, Senior Urban Planning & Design Specialist – Projects Manager, Ministry of Municipality

  • Emani Kumar, Executive Director, ICLEI, South Asia

Watch the full session below

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Urban Pressures of Today Across the MEASA Region

An animated discussion between leading urban planners and developers from the MEASA region about the pressures facing cities of the global south