Envisioning a New City Landscape
Placemaking, conceptualising around authentic interactions, and solidifying planet-first behaviours through design and programming will be among the ingredients that form the urban blueprint of the future. How does elevating the role of a localised circular food system add value to the dynamics of urban design and city planning? Through interactions among practitioners and sharing of case studies, this session aims to illuminate the opportunities and the challenges of designing for a new city landscape centred around food regeneration models.
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Speaker
Tiffany Lau
Executive Director, Head of Urban Ecosystems, JLL Asia Pacific
Moderator
Tiffany Lau
Executive Director, Head of Urban Ecosystems
JLL Asia Pacific
Tiffany Lau is the Head of Urban Ecosystems for JLL Asia Pacific, with a base in Hong Kong. She has 18 years of experience within the real estate industry, primarily focused on repositioning and redeveloping commercial real estate in New York City and Hong Kong. Tiffany was also the Executive Director for Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hong Kong, overseeing the Hong Kong Chapter with a mission to demonstrate leadership in the responsible use of land.
With an extensive global network, she has worked on a number of high-profile projects including the repositioning and redevelopment of Penn Plaza, Industry City, and various public-private partnerships and creative asset management strategies for a diverse citywide portfolio of commercial properties and land holdings during her time in the Bloomberg Administration.
Tiffany holds and M.S. in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, New York, and a B.A. in Urban Design & Architecture from New York University, and has been on various boards for ULI, Columbia University, and is currently a Steering Committee member of WalkDVRC, an NGO focused on walkability in Hong Kong.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
Prioritise people, specifically in the areas of liveability, walkability, and social equity. I hope to see the inclusion of Universal Design standards to truly ensure HK is a great city for all – that enables our elderly to “age in place”, and future generations to participate in its continuous evolution.
Speakers
Wendy Y. Tsai
Project Director / Lead Member, The Oval Partnership / Urban Land Institute
Moderator
Wendy Y. Tsai
Project Director / Lead Member
The Oval Partnership / Urban Land Institute
Wendy Tsai is a Registered Architect with international experience and multidisciplinary expertise in retail and hospitality, residential, master planning, interior and FF&E design. Highly perceptive to the macro swings in trends and tuned into the social impacts these have on community building and demographic shifts, Wendy approaches design with a strategic planning vision, that ventures beyond the physical built environment. Leveraging wide interests and understanding diverse perspectives, she works with client teams to curate bespoke narratives and develop holistic product positioning that continually evolve and adapt with time.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
In current and upcoming projects, I aspire to have client buy-in on actively implementing sustainable practice, thinking, and materiality for a more resilient future.
Alexander M. Duggie
Managing Director, URBIS Limited
Moderator
Alexander M. Duggie
Managing Director
URBIS Limited
Sandy is a Registered Landscape Architect, a Fellow of the HKILA and, for the past 27 years, the Managing Director of URBIS Limited, a multi-award winning design consultancy focusing on town planning, urban design and landscape design. He is particularly concerned with the sustainable design of the public realm.
Tiffany Lau
Executive Director, Head of Urban Ecosystems, JLL Asia Pacific
Moderator
Tiffany Lau
Executive Director, Head of Urban Ecosystems
JLL Asia Pacific
Tiffany Lau is the Head of Urban Ecosystems for JLL Asia Pacific, with a base in Hong Kong. She has 18 years of experience within the real estate industry, primarily focused on repositioning and redeveloping commercial real estate in New York City and Hong Kong. Tiffany was also the Executive Director for Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hong Kong, overseeing the Hong Kong Chapter with a mission to demonstrate leadership in the responsible use of land.
With an extensive global network, she has worked on a number of high-profile projects including the repositioning and redevelopment of Penn Plaza, Industry City, and various public-private partnerships and creative asset management strategies for a diverse citywide portfolio of commercial properties and land holdings during her time in the Bloomberg Administration.
Tiffany holds and M.S. in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, New York, and a B.A. in Urban Design & Architecture from New York University, and has been on various boards for ULI, Columbia University, and is currently a Steering Committee member of WalkDVRC, an NGO focused on walkability in Hong Kong.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
Prioritise people, specifically in the areas of liveability, walkability, and social equity. I hope to see the inclusion of Universal Design standards to truly ensure HK is a great city for all – that enables our elderly to “age in place”, and future generations to participate in its continuous evolution.
Wing Leung
Director, M Moser Associates
Moderator
Wing Leung
Director
M Moser Associates
Wing has more than 30 years of experience in workplace project management. He has a loyal client base including many well-known businesses within the multinational corporate sector. As a Director at M Moser Associates, he brings experience in project integration, revitalisation and design excellence to deliver innovative projects across the globe.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
We actively support our clients’ net zero aspirations by developing advanced tools to implement low carbon strategies and deliver measurable high performance. We further support their ESG objectives through our integrated project delivery and multi-disciplinary expertise.
Learnings
• Cities around the world are finding new means for city development – how is urban agriculture becoming the driving force for this new phase of development?
• How can this positive change be effected and permeate across all levels of spaces – from the nucleic level of an office, to the living organism of the city?
Post-Event Actions
• To gain insights and formulate a vision for future cities and neighbourhoods.
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This Year's Recap
Farm the City 2022 has successfully concluded!
Thank you for supporting yet another successful Farm the City event which was held on 5-6 October 2022 at ReThink HK.
With the theme "Rethinking Urban Resilience and Liveability," this year's programme was able to include people from all walks of life involved in the discussion, practise, and walking the walk, we know we are on our way to achieving a better and more liveable city environment with urban resilience and sustainability.
Furthermore, the Urban Land Institute's Interactive City Food Lab, which was co-hosted with UrbanPlan HK, was a huge success! We were ecstatic to see such a strong interest in redesigning our future city and developing a model of the future food system as part of the planning process.
Stay tuned for our event report and upcoming news about Farm the City!