Round table



Friday, 14. September 2012 | 11:15 Uhr

Speaker

The participants

Reporting

Professor Gerhard Schmitt from ETH Zurich started the last round table with a short glance back at the three intensive conference days. Afterwards, he discussed together with the professors Daniel Kübler, Lai Cho Malone-Lee and Kees Christiaanse about possible solutions regarding future cities. While Malone-Lee struggles with density and habitability in Singapore, Christiaanse underlined that growth of agglomerations has to be addressed in Western cities. According to the professors, it is a positive development that more and more bigger companies care about sustainability – as it also contributes to the habitability of a place. In her closing words, Malone-Lee advocated well-being of people, especially in the cities. Daniel Kübler also deals with urban quality. For him, ideas are very important – not least also to convince investors and politicians – and so are clear statements and a clear framework when defining urban quality. It is often not possible to design a city on the drawing board, but we can cultivate a city, just as a gardener his or her garden. Research is essentials in order to find out what can be changed and what results does it give. In any case, it is crucial to work to-gether interdisciplinarily.

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