March 9 Konya Transcript

Welcome to the High-level meeting on sustainable urbanization.

Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Cities are facing challenges that are demographic, environmental, economic, social and spatial challenges as result of the unprecedented trend of rapid urbanization More than half of the world’s population now live in cities and 6 of 10 people or we estimate there will be 5 billion people that are expected to reside in urban areas by the year 2030. Most affected by this unprecedented rapid urbanization are the developing countries. Indeed over 90% of this urban growth will take place in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. This demographic shift will present enormous implications for poverty natural resources and the environment. Not only are we seeing the rising impact of cc and ntl dis on cities but cities contribut up to 70% greenhouse gas emissions. Also witnessing

Increasing levels of poverty within the urban areas, increasing levels of inequality often leading to the problems of economy and scl lead into the increasing levels of economic and social exclusion of the urban poor urban opportunities

We have 2 types of challenges, challenges faced by developed and transitional countries, include urban sprawl, which is costly, wasteful and ecologically destructive not to mention energy inefficient, but challenge of an aging and declining urban population in developing, On the other hand in the ing one of most significant challenges cities today and in the next few decades is how to address such basic needs as housing, water supply and sanitation needs of rapidly urbanizing pops as we est that nearly 800 million worldwide currently live in slums and this number may increase exponetly if drastic action not taken.

Many cities in the ing have a sig pop Under age of 18, It is estimated youth will rep 60 % of urban inhabitants by 2030 presenting significant challenges also.

Urbanization brings challenges, it also offers many opportunities. Offers to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies that deal with climate change especially through urban plan and design, such as maximizing utilizing mixed land use better connectivity but cities also can be real engines economic development, and with effective urban strategies and ppolicies cities can realize full potential and exhance their contrib to decent jobs and livelihoods, especially for urban youth, Cities can also rise to supply and affordability to their rising urban pop So just by planning in advance for urban growth. by Plan in advance for urban growth, plan at the scale of the plan by phases, for job creation, and adequate governance models pro poor policies and innovative approaches we can indeed build prosperous equitable sustainable cities. Here to hear about experiences K.

Konya has been pay role as cradle of civilization but also a modern city, with a long history and civilization but also a modern city. great pleasure to introduce h e tahir urek,Mayor of Konya.

His Excellency was born in Debre Bukock Turkey after finishing law school, at Ankara _____ University he took duties with the cham of commerce and with NGOs, along with the practices law and since the year 2004 has been Mayor of Konya.

We have a saying of Rumi the people who are sharing the same feelings not sharing same language are on the same page.

Who are sharing same feeling will create a solution to the problem, sustainable urbanization and the problems it is creating, to deal with problems and come to solutions should be common commitment. Humanity is integrity like travelling on the same ship. The world population for first time at the end of the 20th century to exceed urban poplation, and now we are looking at problems it brings, most important problem will be cosmopolit, people start to think of self as useless and they are unaware they are an important part of the population. re important part of together with globalizaiton cult and social facts, once some loses him herself reason for suicide, therefore man should be aware imp himself, human center looking way, this development. Economic social ecological and development on these facts must have human focused way of looking, this is how I think. Rumi says we are here for integrity not dissemination, again I would like to say he says we not planted anything to ground except love. Konya has more than 1 mill pop, quite different from other rural areas, population over 1 million and partly cosmopolit we do not see problem solving sittins in Konya, and this is a fact that necessity brought. All citizens in K think we conserve mankind sustainable urbanization is a top priority, when we look from own perspective is a living place Konya, living country Turkey means livable place therefore like to share some of the titles come out of our experience Konya formed 9400 years ago from neol period, when we look at humanity heritage, we see total ____ groundings and look at history, 9400 years ago founded. Social genetics of K very rich, we can be sure of this. The civilizations lived before us think we are their heritage, and representative. We want to use this experience in urbanization, integart past and future. Scientists vw of K is the integration of past and future or tradition and modernization dance. Our way of looking I emphasize Rumi saying, one foot is on its own, the other is on the world, gives chance to look in way large perspective. In the means of globalization. Today K in the center of T and it is 1/19 of T, and both in industry ed hlth cult socty and many ways showing its realization every aspect. Eith this strct we want to pen up to world , we will to have more gusts, this is our trgt, because of friendliness with world cities exhcng lots info, member of world hist cities, rep on its board, and also we have hosted the w hist cits conf and we think we are step ahed among these cities. We lk at urbztn, title wld be the archl strcture of the city the 2nd plan is the peace and happiness of our people. The arch of the city by be able to finalize the infrastr having a planned city is not only the srce of the happin of the people. U can have mod city, not always pple smil and sharing, if you create such a city you have rched yor goals. This is how we thnk. We had bbc reporters from England, wnet out for 1 night, a holiday, went to dervishes, vistrs said what we saw was most of the people go there, what we saw but were saying, there is no security people for thousands of people, what we saw, smiling people of thousands. This is the main thing we need today nowadays, this is our target actually we want to see smiing people in the city. The happiness of the people we should really have on eof our trgts the happiness of the people. K has the hlthiest infrastr of T and provi it cheap, tr wtr bread, main needs of people very cheap and this is our mgt style. Again other infatsr seen in many diff cities, houses without permits, civil orgztn groups, is first in T, and anoher fact that eases the job of the mgres. You are deal with the rt mgt people and the govt and admin respty in the rt way, we have fndtsns and servcs gven in accrdnce with these agencies. One speclty of K si strng rel mangrs and K. Inrstr coord, our gvt brght new apprch to this, ntl gas elect tel gas and other srvcs shoud be in coop, we are wk with a council, acting toward the sam edirctn it is one mgt central systm it is a city info systm. One ctrd mgt called teop, an instl orgztn, all the activits of K sn from 1 ctr, managed by the systm. When renting or buying a property or infor abt another regn, they go to the municipality, they take info, all the licenses permits situations of the permits are vsble and registred in the systm and prevents illegal housing, whi is anther speclty of the sytm. Human focused perspive, is how we lead the way. In nY gthere is a concrete ex, in the AM our hotel is close here, went for a walk, to know city. Toda we wwlked from 44 56 and 5 aven we toured the city. We saw 1 gthing, lot o places on the pavement, saw sellers selling fruit or brkfast. We see this, we have a round dough with sesame, three months ago the sellers on the sidewalk, we saw 350 of them, had meetings with them, sai why selling these on the sidewal, you are paying what is necessary, but you are plluting the views. Some sad jobless, disabled, in order to earn more money. Were do other jobs this is 2nd job. The ones who had jobs sellig the stuff, cancelled ghe second job permits. Jobless, we said we moveout your stand, creating an opty at the municplity for the ones disabled, socl support program, we have a card, the poorest people are divers families, disabled, no can wk, need support, we dtrmnd the number we prov socl support, gae credit card, had an opty to meet their essential needs and this support was not given to them as a support package. Loaded to cred card that amt this credit to their card in accrd with their fmly how many in fmly and limiting their purchases, ban their buy cigs or ths not in firt hand, aimed at ess nds. Have prov scl support to the people selling, had no problem they cooperated, had chance not gie ticket or ban stands, we met with them , gave another option, was human fcsd, for the ppoor grps saw they would be supported. As scl devel example, we had a scl fbric map, he is sit next to me, the map, all the dstrcts, families we see disabled, jobless, all of their scl position if they have a vehicle, where they wk, what salary is, we choos one dstrct, how many need support in the dstrct, what is their fin status and position, we have abilty to see this, plan bdget accrd to this, we can go in to grt detail, go to the apt, determine the exact place of the apt, can prov polit aspects. For poor grps, should not bring or prov people say we give support, we no want to wk. our municplty, for fmlies, if child growing, give job opts to children, once they wk we cancel their card. Ewe have voctl train ctrs for jbless, protocol with ministry of ed, have founded ghe most eff edctl cvoctly ed ctr- 90,000 in K registred for vctl trn, many got jobs, opened own job, able o survive. The women, we had progrs trgt for womn and fmils, socil consult programs, to gie a number, the number sd successful, there is a women family support ctr, nearly 3000 fmilies supported, and famly probls solved Some monor grous like gypsies, prov vctl train for these, we opened art ctrs, want them integrtd to pop. This is our way of looking, and examples. As a munipality, all rel places, give imprtnce to their cleanliness, we have a cth ch regi to Vat, togthr with our histcl mosque we strt clean the church also, this is a scl mess, start clen same date same time as ch and mosque an drecvd thnk you letter from vat. Lk at ecol municplty, waste wtars, modern distillation and drty water from cannals, give imp to this also, use most advanced idistillation syst and advanced tech. With distill water, we are invested on this, and we water the green areas and we strt this in K and for waste mgt, we have new invstms and are prov electr production to be suffic for 24 000 houses. You know ky Pr., ben signed by T gvt. Withing the aseepepct, global warm, cntrs have respts to do, also cities need to have ldreship in these also, play signfi role in cc esply publ tr, veh pltion, increase of green land, in 8 years in K we increased 18 sq meters to 40 pers person, ecol mncplty and sust urbzatinon is important and activits in accord to this are give exs to other mncplts.

This mt bring new prspive to our studies and benefit from solutions determined here. As K, our expectation, want to share applictns with other world cities, honored to do these sstuds, want to host 2016, ing and cities, is opty for mid e, afr asia, give much impot to these progras, wld like to host hab mtg in K, most developed vctl train ctr and much appreci support on a world platform, our scl card projct, maybe a negotiation sujct in intl arena and model to other cities. WWD yest, lots actvts in K, all around our cntry, esply viol vs women and womn train stdis, all these sgjs took some steps, want to share other actvts with ogther cities.

Yamina – city 9400 years old, you talked about integrt past with fut, you tchd 3 SPECTS SUSTY, HGHLIT, YOUR TARGET IS SMILING PEOPL, HAPPINESS FACTOR RSED BEFORE INTERST TO KNOW HOW TO MSURE IT, glad talk vlun people, wmn, rel tol, diversity, sure in discuss today go to depth all you said.

Now great plsure Amb apakan, insert bio.

Speech

Thnk you highl chls urbztn but need to tak integrated aprch. Hghl nd to empower cmnty, level of gvt clsest to people, ack amb. From Sweden to say he cochair of group of hrs sust cities, other amb sing, been active in prep process r plus 20 and beyond.

Now have great plsure to introd amb francis Lorenzo – hon pres ssn, init launched duri 16 ssn sshlevel comm to adv mdgs. Chairs best practs in ss and tria coop. was fromer vp socil comsn and vp unadr, bring tog ether key stkholds in the contry.

Cngrt un hab, thanks mayor of K, delegtation, mbr prl, recog imp issue, pr of T each spker for highlt chlls and opts for sust urb, always my belif as empower lcl authty and bring smile to pople, is one rason we hae ss news to share best prcts and highlt best prcts K – want more awareness glbl leve don in K, how to duplicate what done – lots done re chls and opts sust urb – glbl mrt placel, all agree infor occur with ict, apple I pad to internet seem mk eetyhng psble – stage set for vsl imges to modify oru lives, newsppers strgle, sophist el users for real time live clikc on news arnd world, occupy, pol agenda of modern dig world – every city, chnges drn by dig media, hundreds milns wkers healthcare, creates content be consumed, find new more effcnt way for distribt process – purchasers can access content almost anywhere – next 2-3 years, port devices overtake persnl cmptrs, access to dig content most imp, if cities cntrs find mastr of dig media and find life trans – NYU, CUNY, create prtship where we train jrnlsts come from diff cntrs on sust urbztn – invtn to UNH to part in programs – SSN and globl bus incubtr init, lok forwd ….

SSN is impressieve, hglt imp dig mdia, yest, had dscsn with myr and other reps with him with constrm of sus urbztn and impo websites and how they can convey import infor re cities, power fdigtl media and cities need to be part of that – ict and innvtn is yet smthng to tap fuly, seen power in arab cntrs, defly need to look into more.

Come now to end first session, great plsure second part of sessn, aliye cleik – last pstn in hab was director of ny office –

aliye bio –

hrd mayor say cities like humn bs, care for them new restor update btify and sust – today lk susty and analyze K as case study, eoc env socl susty – number of paneltiist, first giv floor to panelists, open floor to comments qs and then contin with panelist

first is urs gauchat

intro of urs

plsure to be here, was int in myrs talk and the phrase, open K to the world – I will tlk abt it, important – will talk abt is identity and image and that relates to the topic the myr rsde, how become open to wrld, open in att and the world must wnt to interact with you – identity: what ds K thnk about itself, hwo citzns thnk are, self image, some sense to have some agt on that – if you lk at arious information trvl bks or internet – themes are it is a rel city. Lng hst, clt imp., hstc with amzing fragments of histry go back 100s years, credle ci – compel but more complicated – tourist map in trkey for trk people, you see K with the impress of K sold by T trst agncy to outside world – can be in ist., see it all yr around, what wil attrct me there – in Dec. you have an amzng influx people there 4 rel rsn, car show, music, trade shows, ltd appeal wrldw, what do you hae of int to rest of wrld – anthr city idents ctr of int and how to cnnect them – image, what do you want other people to thnk about city – is tricky prob, at nt from space see many cities compete with attnt from wlrd, many cities also want recog, be wrld cities, same as you – you can see K not one of brtest stars, strtgs you mt emply nd tak it into accct = need knd of cnctn between image and expeetations – create image not fir first visit, but someon coming back, they will brng frnds – image and expctns and what they exper need to correspond – somehow, exper needs live up to expctns created by image, they are connecte, and this is imp pt, mving forwad, they need be totlly aligned – world cities tend be very dense, have iconic blds, bldg. is symbl maybe turn ugly image to strike chord worldwide – wrld city need great trans, glad yu will be cnct by high speed rail – important, is assn. world city, ranked every 2 years do for over a decade, at top NY lond. Ist, these are alpha cities known arnd world, are also a concept, pple gravitate to them – sign of amzng ambition if K wld be on Alpha list, these are imp in trade, pllitcly and extremely attractive – impo to gfigure out where would K be and on which list wld you be – look at gamma gamma plu na dgamma minus – assume K on gamma lis, impo thng there you have to compete with those cities, what are expectns of public anywhere in world among those cities – if wnt go to alpha, no go to K – Ist is high on list – gamma, Valencia KC Phnx, Guadlhara Lyon, maybe that is where you wld be – in public mind they want that experience, you must think of progrs appealing to that list – no be decvd by your enthsm and far sighted, wond job, gvt has ambtns oths dream of, when creating image, this is what you deal with, empha this as something of great imp – if mak image or branding, you must be aspirtational, reflect asprtns of pople live theire now – enjoy you are concerned about happiness factor, can be msered, asprtns need b in cynch with lcl pop – must be atrctive proposition also, say prison, not, water trtment plant best, not on map – we saw on look at ht tissue, you no seem to have outside nrow circle mod city on move that has trdl attrctns, and must be memobrble also (Paris NY Sydney) conjur up something clear – list of 15 ths, no remember – what unites city on move and city old assets you must tk care of, smth inher, is not city, are ruins of past effs – how e=reconcile the 2 – ways of do this, this is other important thing. lk at it in sane way, bld on fstvlas and events – A=Valencia on gamma list, decided som years ago use rivr bed, build op house, museums, harbor for amer cup, now in debt, is trbled city, fine to have iconic blds, pursue Bilbao blds, is in fina bld, bld one wonderful bldg. eery one come, fest and event all year around, Dec. fine, music fine, NY not a day off – look at cultl insts, cmnts that work well, clut her, focus on fest and event – turn cltl map into program for attractive amdmem, consist image for a number of years – final pt really imp, no sense do smth for trsits, trsts fine, can it be equally attr to west and east, do you orient to triststs from e and west of bth – in craft strat, who are u address, how will it be effiv ein creat rt knd of image, must imrove qlty life 4 cits, if simul attrive and improve quality life of cits, if do both people see own life improving, and fully behind image bldg. you want to do.