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CLC-ASC Regional Workshops on
“Urbanisation in Southeast Asian Countries:
Cities as Engines of Development”

18-19 March 2010
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore
(By Invitaion Only)

ASC is co-organising with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a second workshop on urbanisation in SE Asian countries. We did a first workshop - at the working experts level - in December 2009, which some of you attended and contributed your views and perspectives.

The second workshop will involve academics and policyplanners from ASEAN countries. There will be 5 thematic sessions around the topic of making urbanisation an engine for sustainable development, ranging from economic development to social and environment and governance issues. The updated programme is attached

Urbanisation in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian cities are at the centre of the region’s economic growth.  They are also a critical source of income and wealth generation and play an important role in improving human development. However, through mismanagement or lack of resources, cities can also become centres of increasing poverty, inequality and environmental degradation. In ASEAN, there is growing recognition that the quality of urban development affects the prospects for national and regional development. 

The ASEAN Studies Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) partnered with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) of Singapore to organise a series of workshop on urbanisation trends, prospects and challenges in Southeast Asian countries. The first workshop was held on 10-11 December 2009 at ISEAS.  Discussions will continue in a second workshop scheduled for 18-19 March 2010, which will involve academics and policyplanners from ASEAN countries. Thematic discussions will be organised around the topic of making urbanisation an engine for sustainable development., ranging from economic development to social and environment and governance issues. 

Click here for the Programme