Raising awareness on the challenge
- Show pictures of new areas of Manila, KL and BKK – ask audience which city it is
- Show pictures of heritage areas of the same cities
- I raise the topic at different international and national UD events from the audience: when I do this, people queue to talk to me after the event. People are tired of seeing the building patters of today, but it looks like they don’t have a decision-making voice on the spaces they’ll be living in
- WB: 60% of the infra we’ll see by 2030 is yet to be built today. This is both a tremendous challenge and a tremendous opportunity: the way we build today will determine our well-being and our safety tomorrow (see SC Expo article intro on it)
- Argument of social justice and equity: focusing only on provision of basic services to the poor is equal to denying their right to well-being through urban design and architecture, to denying their right to beauty and aesthetics.