Event information

Category	Special Session

Title	Future of Cities

Day / Time	Friday, June 23rd / 08:30 - 10:30

Room	VCEC - Ballroom B

Event Description	This discussion will draw upon a panel of well-known urban experts who will make short presentations on where cities are today and what they will look like in the future. The discussion will begin with highlights from the State of the Worldâ€™s Cities Report 2006/7. The panelists will be asked to give their impressions on what they see as the major trends and challenges facing cities in the 21st century.

Featuring	Ben Malor, UN Radio - Facilitator Inga Bjork-Klevby, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations; Deputy Executive Director, UN Habitat, Kenya John Friedmann, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada Janice Perlman, Executive Director, Megacities Project, USA Xuemei Bai, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan Kalpana Sharma, Mumbai Bureau Chief, The Hindu, India David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom Clive Harridge, President, Royal Town Planning Institute, United Kingdom
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Partners	World Watch Institute UN-HABITAT Government of Canada