Dubai Municipality at WGS

The office of the Director General of Dubai Municipality tasked us to help build a new overarching vision for the organization focused on rethinking cities with human-centricity, to be revealed at the World Government Summit 2019.

BUILDING A NEW NARRATIVE

We developed a leadership narrative, published a report in partnership with World Government Summit, architected and produced a keynote address to tell the story, alongside a report we produced titled Rethinking Cities of the Future.

The city is a space of promise and peril, community and individual. For much of human history, cities have been the nexus point for social, cultural, and economic trends.

We stand at an inflection point in the story of cities. More people arriving in cities every day: 58% of the global population now live in urban areas. Technology continues to accelerate. Internet-enabled sensors, autonomous vehicles and high-speed networks are rewriting the rules of urban management and planning. Meanwhile, global climate change presents new challenges for resource management and protection of citizen wellbeing.

REPORT: RETHINKING CITIES OF THE FUTURE

In our companion report Rethinking Cities of the Future authored by our research team for Dubai Municipality, we examined the rise of a new urban model — the human centric city — its origins in Western cities led by Scandinavia, its new relevance for the rapidly developing cities of the emerging world, and the leadership position that rising global capitals such as Dubai are pursuing to define a new paradigm of human-centric urbanism for the future of cities.