•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