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NEWS OF MOSCOW URBAN FORUM
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2012 December 4-7, 2012 Second Moscow International Urban Forum “Emerging global cities” will take place on December 4-7, 2012 December 4-7, 2012
orum agenda covers the most urgent issues in international urban study: emergence of global economies has led to emergence on the map of new leading cities becoming the centers of urban development. Emerging global cities and existing world capitals face similar issues and challenges. Moscow Urban Forum will be a
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central international conference and expo site for sharing the experience between the recognized and emerging global cities. Moscow will act as the initiator of this dialogue. The substantial framework of the discussion program will be the challenges the emerging global cities face: in the area of demography, investments and economy, strategy and administration. The forum will also include the
exhibition of projects and technologies of urban development. The program will also cover the leading world practices in urban planning and development, master plans of global megalopolises, street art projects and many others.
Round table “Global Moscow” In the “RIA Novosti” press center, a round table discussion “Global Moscow” organized jointly by IRP Group and “The Moscow News” gazette June 27, 2012 he meeting was attended by city authorities and key experts involved in urban development: Sergei Kapkov, head of the Department of Culture of Moscow city; Nikolai Pereslegin, councilor of the head of Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow city; Annelies van den Belt, president of SUP Media Company; Aleksey Novikov, head of the Moscow branch of Thomson Reuters; Aleksey Sitnikov, vice-president for management and development of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technologies; Dmitri Levenets, founder of the “House-Courtyard-Roads” project; Aleksey Mityaev, bicycle infrastructure consultant of the Government of Moscow; Gor Nahapetyan, managing director of “Troika Dialog”; Yuri Grigoryan, head of the “Meganom Project” architectural bureau, and Nokolai Palazhchenko,
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art critic, professor. The participant have discussed the present and future of Moscow striving to become a global city. An important topic of discussion was the matter of active citizens, change agents assisting to transform the environment and affecting the people around. In the end the meeting the experts have proposed a wide range of tools that could help global Moscow to become more comfortable: love for the city and understanding by the citizens themselves of the environment they live
in, reformation of the local authorities, mechanisms of integration of migrants in the urban life, and the need to popularize change agents and their achievements, establishing the communication channels between the said agents and the city as a whole. The video recording of the event is available at: http://pressria.ru/media/20120627/60043018 5.html
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holders, experts and meeting the city authorities, as well as brief presentation in the framework of Moscow Urban Forum. The experts were to identify the conditions and background for establishment of Moscow as one of the leading global cities. During the study, the ULI specialists have analysed the actual condition and possibilities for development of the city in the areas of transport and city management, and have evaluated the density of Moscow population, potential of former industrial areas of the world and generally the prospects of the Russian capital on its way to turning into the global city. The experts have proposed a number of recommendations to the Government of Moscow to be included in the overall strategic program of city development, including improvement of the population
The experts of Urban Land Institute have completed studying the outcomes of the Strategic Session that took place on December 4-9, 2011 on invitation of the Government of Moscow December 4-9, 2011
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n the framework of the session, the tour of the city was held and its history was explained, it also included the interviews with key stake-
Gorod Project The “Gorod Project” journalistic cycle – a joint project of Moscow Urban Forum and “Vedomosti” gazette – is finished
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mobility, development of the partnership system within the city management framework, renovation of industrial areas and use of multifunctional buildings there, etc. The report on the study of Urban Land Institute is available in electronic format at: http://issuu.com/muf2012/docs/uli_eng
from February to May 2012
he experts were the forum speakers: Andrei Sharonov, Herrmann Gräf, Jan Gehl, Kiichiro Hatoyama, Edward Blakely, Aleksey Novikov, Greg Clark, Ruben Vardanyan and other specialist. In the framework of the project, from February to
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May 2012, 10 articles were published. The cycle materials developed the themes discussed during the business program events: development of the global city, expansion of Moscow, formation of the environment comfortable for a human, prospects of the traffic issues of the capital, city brand, etc.
The publications raised extensive feedback from the readers of the “Vedomosti” gazette and web-site, as well as from the Facebook users interested in urban studies. More details about the cycle materials are available in the news section of the Moscow Urban Forum web-site: www.urbanforum.ru
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he project includes the articles of the leading Russian and world experts in management of city development, architecture and transport, infrastructure, construction, investments, branding and land planning. The chief editors of the magazine were Herrmann Gräf, Edward Blakely, Greg Clark, Ruben Vardanyan, Aleksey Novikov, Vladimir Paperny, Marina Khrustaleva, Benjamin Golubitsky, Vasily Gatov, Christopher Choa and others. A special place in the magazine is dedicated to the prospects of development of Moscow and expert opinion of the city administration – mayor Sergei Sobyanin and his deputies Andrei Sharonov and Marat Khusnullin. Detailed examination and specific recommendations on the pages of the
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Cities for People Lessons from the Moscow Urban Forum 2011
April 2012 Published by IRP Group In Cooperation with Moskovskiye Novosti Publishing House
publication were devoted to the urgent problems that have amassed in the Russian cities for the recent decades of uncontrolled development or emerged as a result of expansion, growth or reduction of the population, changes in the economic profile of the city. The electronic form of publication is available at: http://issuu.com/muf2012/docs/urban_e