The Urban Development Timeline: Learning from the Past, to Inform the Future
Day / Time Monday, June 19th / 16:30 - 18:30
Event Description
PADCO will raise awareness of urban policy and development through interaction with the Urban Development Timeline, a knowledge management tool designed to stimulate discussion and share lessons from the past. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in substantive discourse on the most pressing urban issues while learning from prior experience. This opening event, in conjunction with the Urban Development Timeline exhibit, will stimulate greater understanding of the critical role urban issues play in modern development as well as encourage concrete steps for future action to address urban policy and development.
Session Language
English
Speakers
Duane Kissick, President of PADCO
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Host Organization
PADCO / AECOM
Host Organization Description
Founded in 1965, Planning and Development Collaborative International (PADCO) is an international development consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC . PADCO has implemented projects in more than 100 countries around the world. PADCO's wide range of expert technical advisory services include: democratic governance and urban services, sustainable economic development, infrastructure and facilities, humanitarian response and stabilization, and conflict mitigation and resolution. In 2004, PADCO joined AECOM, a leading provider of professional services for the built environment. AECOM is the parent company of a consortium of major architecture/engineering firms with more than $30 billion in projects currently under way. AECOM provides comprehensive consulting, design, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance support for government agencies and private clients on a global basis. PADCO can tap into these resources to ensure single-source management for delivering requisite services.
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Urban Development Timeline PADCO
4:30-6:30
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Key Highlights
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2. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII? The Urban Development Timelines provide a framework that facilitates the application of ideas into action . All three sub-themes: social inclusion and cohesion, partnership and finance, urban growth and the environment are captured in the timelines. The factors that affect policies, programs, institutions, and the methods and tools used for implementation were all central to the networking event; rather than PADCO defining these issues, we served as facilitators the elicited the comparative understanding of the participants who identified the obstacles to successful development and the practices used to overcome these challenges. |
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3. What were the main points raised by panellists and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generated as a result of the discussion? Participants demonstrated that the general understanding of issues affecting urban development is quite sophisticated. The urban development practitioner today must be critically aware that the standard for successful development is high, and that the skills needed to meet this challenge require an increasing amount of creativity, flexibility, and vision. |
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4. What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality? Continued contributions to the Urban Development Timeline permit practitioners on any country access relevant and timely methods for development. These can be reviewed and modified with little effort by the user in the implementation of any urban development program. |
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