New Cities Manifesto
Learning from Riyadh
Following a successful first edition in New Clark City, Philippines, the ISOCARP New Cities Do-Track is travelling to the 2025 World Planning Congress in Riyadh. Last year's initiative focused on developing a Manifesto for New Regenerative Cities, using Placemaking as a methodology and including site visits, lectures, and interactive workshops.
New cities are a widespread, global phenomenon, gaining new traction in both Global South and Global North – also related to the widening housing crisis worldwide. They are centrally planned projects, typically driven by a strong vision. The New Cities Manifesto wants to address the gap between the vision they promote and its realisation, by strengthening the connection between place, self, community, and nature. The New Cities Do-Track collaboratively established a critical framework and planning principles to make new towns and master plans more regenerative and grounded in the emotional value: the meaning that people, with their stories, give to a space.
Learning from Riyadh
Building upon the framework elaborated in New Clark City, the Do-Track programme in Riyadh is articulated around the following sets of values:
Inspired by Riaydh's distinctive heritage and driven by the challenges that the city is facing today, the New Cities Do-Track will explore the Saudi capital in search of 'living' old/new places that confirm and enrich the key principles of the Manifesto. We walk the (expanding) city and document successful examples of urban planning, landscape design, and appropriation that demonstrate how future-proof cities can be built today. The proposed sites for the thematic excursion are:
This workshop is open for the registered delegates. Please register HERE.
New Cities ManifestoLearning from Riyadh
Following a successful first edition in New Clark City, Philippines, the ISOCARP New Cities Do-Track is travelling to the 2025 World Planning Congress in Riyadh. Last year's initiative focused on developing a Manifesto for New Regenerative Cities, using Placemaking as a methodology and including site visits, lectures, and interactive workshops.
New cities are a widespread, global phenomenon, gaining new traction in both Global South and Global North – also related to the widening housing crisis worldwide. They are centrally planned projects, typically driven by a strong vision. The New Cities Manifesto wants to address the gap between the vision they promote and its realisation, by strengthening the connection between place, self, community, and nature. The New Cities Do-Track collaboratively established a critical framework and planning principles to make new towns and master plans more regenerative and grounded in the emotional value: the meaning that people, with their stories, give to a space.
Learning from Riyadh
Building upon the framework elaborated in New Clark City, the Do-Track programme in Riyadh is articulated around the following sets of values:
Planet: Alignment with territory and regeneration of the natural environment.People & Places: How cities grow out of their relationship with the landscape and become identity carriers.Prosperity: Creating flexible urban environments, able to accommodate future changes and uncertainty.Inspired by Riaydh's distinctive heritage and driven by the challenges that the ...
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