The Eduardo Aboitiz Development Studies Center (EADSC) of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) will hold the first part of this year’s four-part Urban Development Series of the Understanding Choices Forum.
Organized in collaboration with the University of Cologne, Southeast Asian-German Forum for Urban Futures (ForUm-Network), and National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) 7, the forum is entitled “Urban Development and Governance: Risks and Opportunities, Learning from Other Cities”. It will be held on Mar. 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon at EADSC, Lopez Jaena Street, Cebu City.
The forum aims to facilitate and broaden understanding on the impacts, risks, and opportunities of programs and policies on urban development and governance in other cities. These programs have been established to combat the urban sprawl or to stimulate urban dynamics happening in major cities in Asia.
The forum will highlight inputs from four international experts and professionals from ForUm-Network, a network of global experts in the field of urban planning and development.
The four experts include Prak Angkeara, deputy director general of the General Department of Land Management and Urban Planning. He will talk on urban networking by participatory community land use planning in Cambodia.
Dr. Sekson Yongvanit from Khon Kaen University and Virunpob Supab from the Ministry of Natural Resources in Thailand, will talk about how Khon Kaen City in Thailand improved itself from green and clean city to low carbon city.
Dr. Goh Hong Ching from the Department of Geography in Universiti Malaya in Malaysia, will speak about the risks being faced now by Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The forum is open to the public. (PIA-7/Minerva BC Newman with reports from RAFI/Nancy R. Cudis)