New Cities

Question 1

Who are the key actors involved in new cities today, versus 50-100 years ago?

Answer 1

Today: Western Europe, USA, South Korea, Malaysia, Morocco, Russia, China, Singapore, etc.

50- 100 years ago: just the USA and Western Europe

Question 2

How is urban space being corporatized?

Answer 2

• New cities have CEOs rather than mayors
  -CEOs are 100% men
  -35% of new cities are part of specialized economic zones

Question 3

How is the private sector and tech becoming a growing role in new cities?

Answer 3

-new types and new scales of public-private partnerships
-less democratic processes
-little to no public consultation
-IBM, Cisco, Google, Facebook, turning into cities

Question 4

What are PowerPoint cities?

Answer 4

Cities that only exist on slides, havent been started yet

Question 5

How are new cities a strategy for a post-oil economy?

Answer 5

Image management: shifting to newer, modern city not based on oil (ex. The line in Saudi Arabia)

Urban laboratories

Cities for national glory (many backfire due to backlash)
ie. Lusail, Qatar for world cup

Many new cities are real estate ventures
ex. Sabah-Al-Ahmad Sea City, Kuwait, is building canals inland so everyone can have waterfront property

Question 6

How are new cities vulnerable to climate change?

Answer 6

rising sea levels when many are on the waterfront