MIC-HUB at the ISOCARP World Planning Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

MIC-HUB will be attending the 61st ISOCARP World Planning Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Camila Araújo, MIC-HUB Project Director, will give a lecture on the Greater Muscat Structure Plan: A Sustainable Transport Approach as part of Track 1.2: Mobility, Accessibility, and Transit-Oriented Transformation on Tuesday 2 December at 11.10 am.

Camila will illustrate how sustainable transport decisions can become powerful drivers of urban transformation.

She will explore how the accessibility, multimodal integration, and transit-oriented principles of the Greater Muscat Structure Plan will guide the city towards its 2040 vision by working backwards from the present and determining the necessary steps to achieve its goals.

She will also highlight the key dilemmas that shaped the planning process, such as connectivity versus speed and accessibility versus driveability, which accompanied us throughout the engagements with different stakeholders.

The ISOCARP Congress brings together the global planning community to collaboratively shape the future of Riyadh and the regional development in Saudi Arabia.

This year’s theme ‘Cities & Regions in Action: Planning Pathways to Resilience and Quality of Life’ calls for bold, people-centred responses to the urgent urban challenges of our time.