This past March, JPI Urban Europe, in collaboration with the UN Habitat Urban Maestro project, hosted their 11th Urban Lunch Talk with speakers -

• Cecilia Bertozzi: Urban governance expert, Urban Maestro project at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
• Liliane Mupende Uwanziga: Independent Consultant-Sustainable Urbanization. Former Director of Urban Planning and Construction, One Stop Centre- City of Kigali, Rwanda
• Karina Landman: Associate Professor, Department of Town & Regional Planning, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Bahanur Nasya: Eutropian: Architect, film producer and project manager of PlaceCity,Vienna, Austria

photo source: JPI Urban Europe

Participants streamed into the zoom webinar from all over Europe and throughout the world. The discussion focused on how urban governance can be more innovative, tackle sustainability targets, positively impact the built environment, and reach out to connect across cultures. The speakers stimulated this dialogue and concluded the event supplying their #1 need for urban governance to be effective- these responses include:

1.    1. Healthy competition between municipalities and neighbourhoods
2.    2. Listening and trust to empower the community
3.    3. Continuing to try out new things in order to keep learning and innovate

You can access the presentation slides here, or the entire webinar recording here. Enjoy!

PlaceCity and Placemaking Europe members participated and attended this event, we thank JPI Urban Europe and UN Habitat Urban Maestro for the fulfilling discussion!

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