Urbane Seminar Series #1 - "Winning the Competition through Innovation" ~learning from the best property developments that shape our cities~ August 18, 2009

About Us
Urbane Indonesia is a relatively young consultant, specialized in architecture, urban design and planning. Within 5 years experience, our company has been exposed to various types and qualities of projects both overseas and nationwide.

Our design team is supported by approximately 30 people under 40s and most of our senior designers actively teach at universities in Bandung and Jakarta. With spirit to share and continuously learn from other experiences, “Urbane Seminar Series” is established, inviting people with similar spirit to share ideas and provoke positive changes to our cities.

Background
Good cities are shaped with innovative development and strategic approaches. In many Asian cities, the developments is led by private development companies which competing each other to win the market.

Evolving market trend let alone unprecedented economic turmoils, demands continuous innovation in planning and development strategy, particularly now when market is more aware on environmental issues and the state of our world.

"Green is the new Gold"
Innovation to balance nature and development is another skill to win the competition. Ayala Land’s Greenbelt project has succesfully and carefully blend a lifestyle center next to historic park in the city center.

City Developments, Ltd. has delivered a shopping mall with Platinum Green Mark, the highest award for building that implements green system.

This first Urbane Seminar Series invites Indonesia private developers and other practitioners in architecture and planning field to learn from these success stories and open up to more possibilities to shape a good city.

Contributors/Speaker:

--- Mr. Arturo G. Corpuz | Ayala Land, Inc.
Vice President for Urban Planning of Ayala Land, Inc., a property development company in Philippines.

Ayala Land, Inc. is leading real estate company and one of the best performing companies in Philippines. With vast experience in property development, Ayala Land has contributed in redefining commercial development by providing innovative approaches to property development. One of their flagship project “Greenbelt” received Awards for Excellence in 2003 from ULI [Urban Land Institute], “represents a visionary step toward a new kind of urban leisure development.”

--- Mr. Eddie Wong | City Developments Ltd.
Mr Eddie Wong has been in the construction industry for nearly 30 years and joined City Developments Limited in 1981. Currently he is General Manager for Projects division in this company.

CDL considers as a property development company in Singapore that is leading in promoting green concept in most of their projects. This corporate has long list of awards for their projects, and one of them is for City Square Mall, as the first shopping mall awarded Green Mark Platinum by the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore.

This corporate shows serious attitude to support green development in Singapore.

--- Mr. Winarto | PT. Pembangunan Jaya Ancol
Director of Property in PT. Pembangunan Jaya Ancol

PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol Tbk is an Indonesia-based property management company that was founded in 1966 by Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta. PJA is established to deliver the first and largest entertainment and leisure center for Jakarta.
Has been growing and adaptive to property trend and global changes, in 1992 PJA is privatized with part of the share owned by DKI Jakarta, and now PJA has proudly claimed to support creative industry with its new branding Creative Ancol. In this way, PJA has become the first real estate developer in Indonesia that seriously aim to acommodate creative industries as their potential target market.

--- Dr. Ing. Jo Santoso |
Lecturer and Researcher specialized in Urban Development Studies

Jo Santoso has rich experiences in real estate development. He had contributed in the early stage of Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) new town development and involved as expert for projects of World Bank, GTZ, Bappenas, UN Habitat and many other leading institutions.

He is currently Head of the Graduated Programme in Urban and Regional Planning, Real Estate Development and Urban Economics of the Tarumanagara University Jakarta (UNTAR) and still actively teaching, leading research team and being senior advisor for property developers and consultants.

In 2006 his first book was published entitled "Kota Tanpa Warga" followed by his second book "Arsitektur-Kota Jawa : Kosmos, Kultur & Kuasa" in 2008.

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