What makes for a best city after COVID?

Chris Fair, Charles Landry, Chi Nguyen

2020 English Public Infrastructures & Space

Official launch of the World’s Best Cities Report 2021, followed by a stimulating debate between three leading place-makers and city shapers on what a ‘best city’ really looks like in our modern world.

Chris Fair, founder of the Best Cities reports, will give us a 20-minute deep-dive into this year’s key insights: from the winning cities to the rationale behind the ranking.

We’ll then dissect these ideas in a thought-provoking discussion together with Chi Nguyen, a leading light at the intersection of public policy and community engagement, and Charles Landry, founder of the Creative City movement (and our Creative Bureaucracy initiative!).

*Session attendees will receive exclusive first access to this year’s report*

Chris Fair

President

A futurist, facilitator and strategist, Chris holds a Masters degree in Studies of the Future and has married his tourism, economic development, real estate and marketing expertise with futures methodologies to help a wide variety of clients envision and create development strategies, plans and brands that shape the future of places around the world. As President of Resonance Consultancy, Chris leads a team that specializes in visioning, strategy, planning, and branding projects for developers and destinations around the world.

Charles Landry

President / Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Charles Landry works with cities around the world to help them make the most of their potential and facilitates complex urban change projects. His aim is to connect the triad culture, creativity and city making. He is co-founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival.

He has published extensively – most recently The Civic City in a Nomadic World, The Creative Bureaucracy (with Margie Caust), An Advanced Introduction to the Creative City, Psychology & the City (with Chris Murray) and The Digitized City. You can download these books as PDF files via Charles’ website: www.charleslandry.com

Chi Nguyen

Social Impact Advisor

Chi has spent the past twenty years in the social change sector, providing strategic advice on how these movements can build stronger bridges to disrupt systems of harm. She has also worked for some incredible do-gooding organizations including Social Innovation Canada, White Ribbon Canada, United Way Toronto, CBC and MASS LBP. She is a member of the BMW Responsible Leaders network, and the Global Diplomacy Lab. Her work has been recognised for improving the lives of women and girls throughout Canada by the Governor General (2004) and the YWCA (1999).

She holds an MSc in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, and loves her most important job as mom to Sam and Ellis.

Member of the Responsible Leader Network of BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt

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