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•Restless Earth (Natural phenomena)

Reality check:

1. Earthquakes – destructive movements of the earth’s surface dueto sudden release of energy in the earth’s crust or upper mantle

2. Volcanoes – openings in the earth’s crust from which molten lava,rock fragments, ash, dust and gases are ejected

3. Tsunamis – large, often destructive, sea waves produced bysubmarine earthquakes, subsidence or volcanic eruptions

4. Landslides/avalanches – movements of large masses of rock,snow or ice down mountains or cliffs

Questions:

How to prepare our cities & communities in facing this uncertainties?

How ready/prepare are we?

If disaster happen, do we know what to do? And where to go?

Do our city being design to address this issue?

•Restless Earth (Man-Made World)

Reality check:

1. Creating land – the process of reclaiming land from the sea, orconverting the use of derelict or flooded areas to create productiveland

2. Controlling water – use of water resources for the generation ofpower and for the irrigation of otherwise infertile land foragriculture

3. Expanding cities – outward and upward growth of urban areaslargely in response to the migration of people from rural areas

4. Travel and transportation – creation of roads, railways andtransport networks for the movement of goods and peoplethroughout regions and around the world

Emerging Issues: Globalization and instability

• Protective foreign policies “Brexit” + USA Presidential Campaign

Globalization and conflict/instability

• Currency Wars + Terrorism + Prolong Conflict• Disputes between countries or groups of

people based on territorial claims, ideology, religion, ethnicity or competition for resources

Deforestation

• The filling of trees, often illegally and in anunmanaged way, commonly to provide land foragriculture, industry and for human settlements

Pollution

• The release into the environment of harmful orpoisonous substance, often by-products ofindustrial or agricultural activity

City & climate change

• Draught + desertion + haze + raising sea level• Multi-hazard and disaster (more often and more

vicious than before)

Sustainable Built Environment:

• Designing city to address issues and challenges of climate change

Sustainable Built Environment:

Designing and building more resilient city and community

• Protective foreign policies – effect to us?• Oil price drop + housing price increase• Rising cost of living / income gap urban poor• Transboundary issues – combating terrorism + haze

Towards tomorrow……

• Built Back Better (disaster prevention and preparedness)

• World population growth

• World total energy supply by fuel alternative/renewable energy

• Antarctica without its ice?

• Capacity of our landfill – urban waste management

• Geospatial technology for earth observing + forecasting + alerting decision-makers

Thank you