World Class Sustainable Cities 2009
March 19, 2009 – 6:12 pmI WANT TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!
I just read about this and I want to go for this so so so so so so so so much!!!
But, must pay. RM 500! -_-
I’m gonna ask if this conference is HRDF claimable. What? I’m stingy that way okay!
World Class Sustainable Cities 2009 (WCSC 2009)
Now, I’ve always love the topic of sustainable development. Wanted so much to continue my studies on sustainable development back then, but the only viable place to take up such course is in South American universities.
Even Queensland University of Technology don’t have a comprehensive course on sustainable development. Even they do, but it is a sub topic under some architectural studies. Oh wells…
One major part of sustainable development I like the most is transportation. Transportation is like one of the many arteries that links the Central Business District (CBD) of a city. Example like Kuala Lumpur, the transportation is choking itself every single day and the CBD can’t even pump properly on a daily basis because of lousy transportation system. Well you get what I am trying to say.
You can see that I have linked StreetFilms under the category of Tourism and Development. I like what they do and their mission.
I feel that, being a government who has the kind of resources and funds, we can even build a better transportation than what we have today. Yes you have LRT, but what is the point of building the network but you ‘planners’ didn’t think about parking space? Dude, how am I going to ride on the train when I can’t even find a ’safe’ spot to leave my car? By the roadside? Might as well drive to the city. Safer. Got parking in the city, but NOT ENOUGH.
You see? Not sustainable enough our city. Good, but not that good.
Now, back to WCSC2009. These are the speaker series this coming 24th March 2009.
Session 1
Singapore – A Livable and Sustainable City
by Long Yee Mun, VP, Surbana Planning Urban Group, Singapore
One Planet Living in the Construction and Development Sector
by Robert Spinks, Bovis Lend Leas, UK
Sydney 2030 – A Green, Global and Connected City
by Patrick Fensham, SGS Economics and Planning Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Session 2
Branding Our Cities
by Sicco Van Gelden, Placebrands Ltd, The Netherlands
Delivering City Centre Projects, The Cheong Gye Cheon River Restoration Project
by Kie-Wook Kwon, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Korea
Urban Transportation of Singapore
by Choi Chik Cheong, Land Transport Authority, Singapore
Look! We have to learn from our neighbour! Like seriously, why?
Let’s hope our local government authorities and people in our government actually will learn something from this conference and maybe KTM Berhad can finally get someone to run it’s rail like a real business and look forward for a better profit instead of RM1. They made a lost RM 99 million in 2006. It is not even sustainable for the government to keep running KTMB like how it is and keep on throwing in public funds to help KTMB. KTMB NEEDS A RE-VAMP BADLY!
Wonders if anyone from our Malaysian Transport Ministry will go for this WCSC2009.
I want to go. Let’s see how I can pull some strings here and there… 
5 Responses to “World Class Sustainable Cities 2009”
i dont know what hrdf, but thnking about getting it for free sounds funny/good to me
well i dont really now that much about transportation, but i still have one experience with it that directly came to mind
we (me and my family) wanted to go on vacation right at the beginning of the holiday vacation and we decided. Even though we knew it would be full…it was very full… There is one damn tunnel and everybody wants to go through that one tunnel to come to the other site of the alps (well at least at that point there is only one tunnel)
Well the line of cars was already standing several kilometers away from the tunnel…, we were than standing somewhere in an unknown village in some little road with a lot of other people… it took us than 3 hours to get to the tunnel… just before the tunnel several expressways were meeting and the mass of cars got even more enourmous…. to top that we first drove too far (we would have to drove left but we drove straight) and could than wait than on the other side of the whole thing again…
finally arriving at the tunnel some kind of administration decided that they should turn on the traffic lights, so that it was red for approximatly 10mins and than they let around 10 cars through
seeing that 4 cars could drove next to each other but only 1 in the tunnel.
we than waited another 3 hours in front of tunnel even though it was only 100m away
behind the tunnel everything is completly empty though because of the turned on traffic lights and we could complete the whole driving without any further complications
By shadowking on Mar 19, 2009
sounds like a really educating talk to me. i’m still too young to understand all these.
and i think not much changes will be done despite the representative from our ministry of transport [if there's any!]. I hope this comment offends no one. i believe klang valley is smaller than singapore. shouldn’t it be easier to be done? if they can do it, why not boleh-land?
By ahchia on Mar 20, 2009
shadowking: Whoa! Yeah. Actually, most jams are caused by traffic lights. But then again… No traffic light also problem…
ahchia: All we can do is keep on lobbying for a better people in the parliament to get things done. But, eitherway.. sigh.. we need some fresh blood with fresh mind with fresh ideas..
By yapthomas on Mar 21, 2009
Hi,
Came across this as I was doing a search. Good to see more of the younger popoulation increasing their awareness in this area esp in Msia.
As for your interest in Sustainability courses, I did a Masters in Built Environment (Sustainable Development) at the University of NSW, Sydney back in 2002 when such courses were all new. I believe a number more have been introduced at various institutions since then.
By the way, there will be another Sustainable Cities conference in Singapore around November which I could possibly be speaking at.
I left Msia a long time ago and am currently working with Arup in Shanghai on various eco-city projects all over China.
Hope your interest in this area grows
Cheers,
Tony
“Trying to cure traffic problems by widening the road, is like trying to cure obesity by losening your belt”
By Tony Chan on Apr 29, 2009
Tony Chan: Hey there… the problem about Sustainability studies, one need have an engineering background. I don’t have any. So my interest will be just interest. Hope I can give the one in Singapore a visit?
By yapthomas on May 2, 2009