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World Development Federation
WDF Expert Panel on Urban Development


Preliminary staff notes for purpose of discussion.

1. Scope

  • New towns
  • Redevelopment projects
  • Rapid transit systems
  • Loop and two-loop concept
  • Special projects
  • Ultra-high-rise construction
  • Underground construction

2. Issues: questions, challenges, objectives

  • Identifying improved urban concepts and forms for the future
  • Recognizing significant projects
  • Discovering means for collaboration on global systems
  • Recommending global priorities
  • Proposing topics for future conferences

3. Examples of projects of interest **1996 Additions**

  1. Alice City (Japan)
  2. Aloha Towers, etc. (Hawaii)
  3. Aluminum smelter (Algeria/Morocco). (IDC of Dubai).
  4. Atlanta Outer Perimeter (USA).
  5. Bangkok rapid transit. (Hopewell Holdings/Lavalin. Don Lavoie VP) (Thailand)
  6. Bangkok ring road (Thailand)
  7. Barcelona Logistics Center (Spain)
  8. Battery Park/NY (USA)
  9. Beirut/Lebanon reconstruction. (Lebanon)
  10. Berlin redevelopment. (Germany)
  11. Bucharest housing project (Romania) (MB)
  12. Burma (Myanmar). Daichi Tokyo plans new town. Concord Dev Co
  13. Chicago tower (USA)
  14. Chrysler renewal in Detroit (USA)
  15. Colgate/NJ (USA)
  16. Denver outer belt tollway (USA)
  17. Domed City. (Daiei Corp.) (Japan)
  18. Gas processing plant. (India). (Assam Ind. Dev. Corp.)
  19. Hainan free port. (China) (Kumagai Gumi HK., Kumagai Gumi Japan)
  20. Japan "super dikes" plan.
  21. Kansai Science City (Osaka, Japan)
  22. Landmark Tower. (Mitsubishi Estate Co.) (Yokohama, Japan)
  23. London Docklands (UK)
  24. Los Angeles Metro Rail System (USA) ICF Kaiser Engineers (California); Parsons Brinckerhoff
  25. Melbourne Docklands. (Victoria, Australia)
  26. Minato Mirai 21. (Yokohama, Japan)
  27. Nadhodka SEZ (Russia)
  28. New towns:
    Argentina. New capital at Viedma.
    Cambodia-China City (Kampuchea)
    China new city. Parsons is working on engineering support & master plan
    Kohoku New Town, Yokohama (Japan)
    MFP project, Adelaide.(Australia)
    Nigeria. New capital at Abuja.
    Thailand. Jurong (Singapore) new town group
    Yangpu/Hainan New City (China)
  29. Newport Center/NJ (USA)
  30. Paris. Europe's tallest. Arch. Jean Nouvel & Jean-Marc Ibos.
  31. Petronas Towers (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
  32. Phoenix light rail. (defeated once). J.E. Sirrine (USA)
  33. Port America/Md. (USA)
  34. Port Island (Kobe, Japan) (NK)
  35. Port of Ghent. Capt. de Wilde (Belgium)
  36. Potsdamer Platz (Berlin) (Germany)
  37. Rokko Island (Kobe, Japan) (NK)
  38. Russia. Technopolis (Bechtel)
  39. Russian chemical plant. (Hyundai/Mitsui/Comb.Eng.) (Russia)
  40. Santa Teresa new town (Mexico). (Grubb and Ellis)
  41. Saudi Arabia. Ethylene plant. Mitsui Eng. (Saudi Arabia)
  42. Shanghai Center. (China)
  43. Shanghai ring road (China)
  44. Shanghai/Pudong (China)
  45. Shell petrochemical plant. (China)
  46. Singapore. Exporting skills
  47. Stein Co., McCormick Place (USA)
  48. Supercollider. (USA)
  49. Taipei Transit Program (Taiwan). (Kaiser Int'l, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Bechtel Corp.)
  50. Taipei. 126-floor building (Taiwan)
  51. Taiwan plant in Texas. (Formosa Plastics) (USA)
  52. Tokyo 2025 plan.
  53. Toyota plant in Kentucky (USA)
  54. Trapezium Ring-shaped City. (Ing. A.P. van den Berg) (The Netherlands)
  55. VW plant. (China)

    Additional Notes for 1996 Conference

  56. Auto Manufacturing Plant -- Toyota has selected Evansville, Indiana for a $1 billion plant, its third in the U.S.
  57. Hong Kong Semiconductor Plant -- United Microelectronics of Taiwan is buildidng a $1 billion wafer plant. The project team includes six other companies, including Trident Microsystems, of the U.S.
  58. Utah Chip Fabrication Plant -- Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho is building a $2.5 billion chip at Lehi, Utah.
  59. Texas chip plant -- Motorola is building a $1 billion chip fabrication plant in Austin.
  60. Dallas chip pant -- Texas Instruments is building a $1 billion chip fabrication plant in Dallas.
  61. Germany chip plant -- Advanced Micro Devices is reported to be planning a $1.5 billion chip fabrication plant in Dresden.
  62. Texas Wafer Chip Plant -- Samsung Electronics is said to be looking for a site in Texas for a $1.3 billion wafer making plant.
  63. Indonesia Petrochemical Plant -- Chandra Asri, of Jakarta, has completed a $1.9 billion petrochemical plant for production of ethylene, propylene, and other materials.
  64. Malaysia -- The government has announced plans to build a new city, Putrajaya, just South of Kuala Lumpur, to be the new administrative capital of the nation. The $8 billion project is set for completion in 2005.
  65. Saudi Arabia -- A $1.6 billion project to expand water systems for the two industrial towns of Jubail and Yanbu has been reported. Engineering will beprovided by Parsons and Bechtel.
  66. India -- New auto manufacturing facilities in the $1 billion range have recently been announced by Ford, Daewoo, and Hyundai.
  67. Global -- The construction of new computer chip and wafer plants may constitute the greatest building boom ever experienced by any industry. Expert observers in the field predict well ovedr 100 new installations in the next 5 years, with the unit cost ranging from $1.2 to 3.0 billion.
  68. Among the units scheduled in the USA are these:
    • Arizona -- Intel, Motorola, Thomson.
    • California -- NEC, Intel.
    • Florida -- AT&T Microelectronics.
    • Maine -- National Semiconductor.
    • New Mexico -- Intel.
    • Oregon -- Fujitsu, Hyundai, Intel, LSI Logic.
    • Texas -- AMD, Motorola, Samsung, and Texas Instruments.
    • Utah -- Micron Technology.
    • Virginia -- Motorola, IBM, Toshiba.
    • Washington -- Matsushita.

4. Examples of Experts and expert groups

  1. AIG (Joe Devlin) (USA) Singapore project.
  2. Architect Kurokawa (Tokyo 2025 plan) (Japan)
  3. Assam Ind. Dev. Corp. (India)
  4. Berlin Director of Building, Dr. Hans Sternman (coordinating the redevelopment of central Berlin) (Germany)
  5. Berlin Economic Development Corp. Helmut F. Wolf, Director
  6. Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, Carles Ponsa. (Barcelona, Spain)
  7. Daiei Corporation (Japan)
  8. Formosa Plastics (Y.C. Wang) (Taiwan)
  9. German Finance Minister, Theo Waigel, Berlin (Germany)
  10. German Minister of the Chancellery, Friedrich Bohl, Berlin (Germany)
  11. Grubb and Ellis (USA)
  12. Hong Kong Government Territory Development Department (Hong Kong)
  13. Industrial Devleopment Corporation of (Dubai)
  14. Italian architect Renzo Piano (Potsdamer Platz project in Berlin and Kansai airport)
  15. Japan Development Bank: (Funding for Minato Mirai 21) (Japan)
  16. Kumigai Gumi HK., Kumigai Gumi Japan
  17. London Docklands Development Corporation (David Hardy) (UK)
  18. Miglin Beitler. (USA)
  19. Millennium Commission (UK)
  20. Mitsubishi. Pres. Shinroku Morohashi (Japan)
  21. Osaka Architect Tadao Ando: "Redevelopment of global cities to meet future needs"
  22. PLI. (Brussels, Belgium)
  23. Rouse (Aloha Towers, etc.) (USA)
  24. Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu. Prince Abdullah bin Faisal, head. (Saudi Arabia)
  25. Solidere. Nasser Chammaa, Secretary General, (Lebanon)
  26. Sumitomo Life Insurance Co., Kanazawa High-Tech Center, Tokyo (Japan)
  27. Takenaka (Japan
  28. Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA). Pi Qian Sheng, exec. vice chrmn. (China)
  29. Tianjin Mayor Zhant (China)
  30. Victoria, Australia, Treasurer Rob Jolly (Australia)

5. Previous presentations and available documents

The Industrial Cities of Jubail and Yanbu: Linking Natural Resources and New Cities for Economic Development
Sami Eid
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
Saudi Arabia is investing $40 billion in the creation of the twin industrial cities of Jubail and Yanbu.

The Regional Economic and Infrastructure Development of Hong Kong
Dr. Edward G. Pryor
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
A broad overview of Hong Kong's development, including the wider regional context of south China.

Super Projects: Bangkok Mass Transit System
Jane Opgaard Turner
Conway Data Inc., 1994
Three separate plans comprise a $5.6 billiion mass rapid transit system for Bangkok, Thailand.

Super New Town Projects in Hong Kong
Chow Che-King, Director of Territory Development, Hong Kong
1993 Global Super Projects Conference
During the past two decades, nine large-scale new town developments have been started, housing 2.4 million residents. This paper describes how these new town projects are formulated, their planning standards and their implementation processes.

Singapore: a Model for Southeast Asia - Development of a Global Port and Maritime Hub
Philip Ng, Chief Civil Engineer, Singapore Housing and Dev. Board
1993 Global Super Projects Conference
A discussion of the development, growth, expansion capacity and future of the busiest port in the world.

London Docklands Urban Redevelopment
World Development Council, September 1994
The London Docklands project is probably the most significant urban redevelopment project underway in the world today.

Kazakhstan Capital Move
World Development Council, October 1994
The new nation of Kazakhstan has proposed to move its capital from Alma Ata, the provincial capital when Kazakhstan was part of the Soviet Union, to Akmola, in the north-central part of the country.

Honolulu Rapid Transit Project
Joseph M. Magaldi Jr
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
After studying the idea of building a rapid transit project for over 30 years, Honolulu is finally going to build one.

Integrated Infrastructural Planning for Singapore, A Tropical City of Excellence
Dr. John Keung, Dir., Physical Planning Div., Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority
Dr. Keung's paper highlights the role that infrastructure has played in Singapore's rapid economic growth.

Australia's Multifunctionpolis
Barry E. Orr
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
The futuristic multifunctional "City of the Future" is a fusion of high-tech industries, education, recreation, housing and commercial functions.

Building for a Sustainable Future: The Role of Smart Infrastructure in Environmentally Sound Development
Dr. Stephen Gomes, President, New Epoch Consultants

1993 Global Super Projects Conference
Exciting new principles of sustainable design and development are being experimented with and adopted at a number of key locations around the world. The case of a new multimedia park in France is cited.

Suntec City - Where the World Meets
Dr. Chua Yong Hai, General Manager, Suntec City Development, Singapore
1993 Global Super Projects Conference
Designed as a futuristic city within a city, Suntec City will be one of Singapore's most prominent landmarks with its combination of convention and exhibition space, offices, shopping, food and entertainment facilities.

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