The presentation outlines selective works from UN-Habitat in recent years, which address the collective solutions applied to transform the territory from the process of planning and design to implementation or piloting on the ground.
Speaker Li Yigang
Date 21.09.2022
Time 18:30
Location Atrium, Lee Shau Kee Architecture Building, CUHK; and via Zoom
The presentation outlines selective works from UN-Habitat in recent years, which address the collective solutions applied to transform the territory from the process of planning and design to implementation or piloting on the ground. This showcase package summarises planning strategies, design tools, assessment approaches and monitoring frameworks that guide designers, policymakers and civil society to achieve the New Urban Agenda. It unpacks the practices of regional, city, and community scales and demonstrates them from a holistic perspective. It also reveals the mechanisms that facilitate various stakeholder groups to voice for the bottom billion and collaboratively steer the wheel of territorial shaping.
Li Yigangis an urban planner, architect, and data scientist based in New York and Amsterdam. He is currently serving as a digital solution expert at UN-Habitat Headquarter Office in Nairobi, where he supports national governments in applying digital means to promote livelihood system planning and design at the city and community scale. He has more than six years of practice with international research institutions and inter-governmental agencies, supervising projects in slum upgrading, public space regeneration, and regional infrastructural construction across China, the U. S., Mexico, and the African continent.
The lecture will be conducted in English. For non-CUHK participants, please register here.
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