Working Group 8.3 - Re-engineering of Mega Cities
Policy Issues
- To provide opportunities for surveyors to play a key role in solving
problems and implementing infrastructure in environmentally sustainable
projects/developments in mega cities (large sprawling habitats with two
distinct types being economically wealthy and dramatically poor).
Chair
Specific Projects
- To study the World City Report for identifying opportunities for surveyors
to be contributors towards improving infrastructure and degradation of the
environment;
- To create methods of identifying causes of infrastructure damage within
mega cities;
- Identify the planning framework and recommend changes which will enable
implementation of E.S.D.;
- Develop a policy framework to enable sustainable cities.
Workshops
- To contribute to the proposed Commission 8 workshop on mega cities at the
FIG Working Week 2008.
Publications
- Report on results of working group investigations and report at the FIG
Congress 2010.
Beneficiaries
- FIG member organisations, United Nations and the World Bank.
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