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Key speakers about urban development

Max Jeleniewski.
Max Jeleniewski City Manager for the centre of the Hague; Member of the committee to prepare for and hold the event "The Hague. European Cultural Capital. 2018"

The social and economic development of cities is very much dependent on a number of secondary but essential parameters of inner cities.

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Grigorii Revzin.
Grigorii Revzin Historian; Art Critic; Architectural Critic; Journalist

What is Moscow’s brand? For Russians, Moscow is tantamount to a foreign country, Moscow is the city that sucks the juice from the country, the city of power, big money, big opportunities and big dangers.

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Carlo Ratti.
Carlo Ratti Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Director of theme “ Senseable City Moscow”, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design

The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.

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Mateu Hernández.
Mateu Hernández CEO of the "Barcelona Global"

How can Moscow become real global city?
M – Mobility. Being well connected as a hub
O – Open...

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Andrei Sharonov.
Andrei Sharonov Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government on Economic Policy

In order to compete on an equal footing with global cities such as New York, London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Moscow must meet the highest standards.

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Greg Clark.
Greg Clark Senior Fellow ULI EMEA

In 2011 cities have become the most important units of economy and civilisation, and the world knows much more about what makes cities work.

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Edward Blakely.
Edward Blakely Honorary Professor, Urban Policy & Disaster Recovery expert, The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

Moscow and other Russian cities need to be real global cities that compete with the rising cities of Asia and not merely cities that are being globalised by forces outside their control.

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Sergey Riabokobylko .
Sergey Riabokobylko Senior Executive Director, Partner, Management Board Member, Co-Founder "Cushman & Wakefield", FRICS

If the commercial property market is to function efficiently there must be clear, transparent and permanent principles for the game.

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Mikhail Blinkin .
Mikhail Blinkin Director of research at the Moscow Research Institute of transport and road management

The experience built up during the 100 years that mass motor transport has existed shows that cities (even the oldest cities!) can adapt to virtually any level of vehicles per head of population, no matter how high.

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Nikolai Pryanishnikov.
Nikolai Pryanishnikov Architect, Instructor in the Cultural Management Department at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Hospitality is a staple offered by the local community to travellers.

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Jan Gehl.
Jan Gehl Founding Partner, Gehl Architects

In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses

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Gianpietro Borghini.
Gianpietro Borghini Former mayor of Milan, Organizing Committee Member of "Expo-2015"

Planning "global-cities" is more a matter of "governance", than of "government".

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Bart Goldhorn.
Bart Goldhorn Chief Editor of the "Russia project" magazine

Mass housing in Russia is still being constructed according to Soviet principles. In Western Europe this architecture has been abandoned in the 1970s and better approaches have been developed.

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