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ISSUE 5 • June 2014 Lee Hsien Loong Greg Clark Singapore June 2014 • ISSUE 5 INTERVIEW Lee Hsien Loong Greg Clark CASE STUDY Singapore Yokohama Medellín ESSAY Pablo Vaggione & Elyssa Ludher Jeremy Bentham Peter Lacy & Ynse de Boer CITY FOCUS Suzhou OPINION Isher Judge Ahluwalia Chua Beng Huat A biannual magazine published by Advisory Panel Image Credits Dr Liu Thai Ker (Chairman) Accenture: 85, 88, 90 Chairman Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Centre for Liveable Cities Metropolitana: 62 (below), 64, 65, 66 Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia Bilbao International, Bilbao Ekintza: 68-69 bram_souffreau: 72 (below) CC by-SA 2.0 Chairperson, Board of Governors Cabinet Office: 26 CC by-NC-ND 2.0; edited, 30-31 Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations Carlos Andres Mesa Giraldo: 74 CC by 2.0 Bindu N. 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CLC is a division of ISSN 2301-3540 (print) ISSN 2301-3532 (e-version) © 2014 Centre For Liveable Cities, Singapore Cover: Historic canal in Suzhou, recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2014. Opinions expressed in URBAN SOLUTIONS do not necessarily Photo courtesy of Pingjiang Historic District Preservation & Restoration Co., Ltd. represent the views of CLC. While the publisher has taken reasonable care in compiling the magazine, it shall not be URBAN SOLUTIONS welcomes feedback from readers. liable for any omission, error or inaccuracy. Contact Dinesh Naidu T +65 6645 9574 E [email protected] 45 Maxwell Road #07-01, The URA Centre, Singapore 069118 Contents From the Executive Director 16 INTERVIEW Lee Hsien Loong 18 Greg Clark 26 CASE STUDY Draft Master Plan 2013 34 SINGAPORE Minato Mirai 21 42 YOKOHAMA 18 42 Contents CASE STUDY Waterways Watch Society 52 SINGAPORE A Better City Through Mobility 60 MEDELLÍN ESSAY What Lies Behind Successful, Liveable Cities 68 PABLO VAGGIONE & ELYSSA LUDHER Why Compact Cities are the Future 76 JEREMY BENTHAM 60 68 Contents ESSAY The Seven Steps to Sustainability 84 PETER LACY & YNSE DE BOER CITY FOCUS Suzhou 92 OPINION Viewpoint: The Case for “Shared Solutions” 100 ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA Counterpoint: The Limits to “Shared Solutions” 104 CHUA BENG HUAT 92 100 From theExecutive Director This special issue of focuses on the Compact-Accenture CEO Study WORLD CITIES SUMMIT in June A highlight of the Summit is on Sustainability, and propose 2014 and its theme “Liveable the LEE KUAN YEW WORLD a seven-step roadmap for and Sustainable Cities: Common CITY PRIZE, and our City Focus effective action. Challenges, Shared Solutions”. section spotlights this year’s We explore major challenges that laureate, the beautiful city Finally, our Opinion section today’s cities face, and proven of Suzhou. The two Special interrogates the Summit’s theme solutions from around the world. Mention cities – Yokohama and of “shared solutions”. Indian We also ask how the public, Medellín – are also profiled in urban expert Dr Isher Ahluwalia, private and people sectors, as well our Case Study section, alongside who is a Summit speaker and as different cities, can learn from Singapore studies that showcase a recent CLC Visiting Fellow, and collaborate with each other. collaboration within and across persuasively makes the case that the public and people sectors. it is both possible and important In our Interview with Singapore’s for cities to share and learn from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, An Essay by Centre for Liveable each other. Eminent Singaporean the Opening Ceremony Guest Cities (CLC) researchers, sociologist Professor Chua Beng of Honour, learn what liveability analysing how cities overcome Huat then provides a provocative means personally to him, and their challenges to achieve and necessary counterpoint – what he thinks Singapore can advances in liveability, is adapted highlighting the serious, and learn from others. In another from their chapter in a new occasionally comic, limits to Interview, UK Minister of State book on the CLC Liveability such sharing. for Cities and the Constitution Framework that we will launch and Summit plenary speaker at the Summit. Elsewhere, Whatever your geographical, Greg Clark calls for cities to “lead plenary speaker Jeremy Bentham organisational or ideological from the front”, and explains how draws on Shell’s research with background, we welcome all Britain is pioneering “City Deals” CLC and others to advocate of you in the business of urban to enable this. resource-efficient compact cities, planning, development and and how dynamic governance governance to join us – at the can enable their development. WORLD CITIES SUMMIT or here in In another Essay, Peter Lacy – as we learn and Ynse de Boer reveal urgent from, and inspire, each other to findings from the UN Global keep doing better. Khoo Teng Chye Executive Director Centre for Liveable Cities “You must be able to play well — which means a green environment, and opportunities for leisure, culture, the human spirit. “ Lee Singapore Hsien Loong FULFILLING THE HUMAN SPIRIT n this interview on 3 April 2014 with Executive Director Khoo Teng Chye and I Koh Buck Song of the Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gives his take on urban liveability and describes his hopes for his country 100 years ahead. He also reveals which other cities he looks to, and what tips Singapore might offer on sustaining a liveable city that meets everyday needs while also fulfilling the human spirit. Of all the many aspects of liveability, which are the ones You must be able to play really close to your heart? well – which means a A liveable city is a place where green environment, and people can live, work and play, and opportunities for leisure, fulfil the human spirit. You want to be able to live well – good homes, culture, the human spirit. good neighbourhoods, orderly and safe streets and environment. You must be able to work well – there must be jobs, opportunities, economic growth. You must be able to play well – which means a green environment, and opportunities for leisure, culture, the human spirit. To bring them all together, you must have the governance to make the “big software” work, to pull it all together so that when people come to this place, they say: “Yes, I want to be here.” “You must be able to play well — which means a green environment, and opportunities for leisure, culture, the human spirit. “ spirit. the human culture, leisure, for opportunities and environment, agreen —which means well play to be able must “You Mr Lee, during his interview attheIstana. Mr Lee,during his interview 19 ISSUE 5 •June 2014 interview Does the fact that Singapore has a dense urban environment as well as lots of greenery give you a different perspective on the major concerns in the world today on enhancing the liveability of cities? Our problems are easier because we are a city in a country, and the country is surrounded by water. It’s a controlled environment. If we decide to do something, we can make it happen in all of Singapore.
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