The Institute investigates solutions to urban challenges of selected cities. This work is approached in four steps:
1. Understand urban aspirations.
Conduct in-depth analysis of contemporary urban issues through stakeholder outreach and research. Fact-finding identifies key topics for further investigation.
2. Re-frame the issues.
Engage the city in dialogue to challenge barriers to urban and regional progress, and to explore social, economic and environmental opportunities.
3. City ambitions report.
Document key issues, outline a strategic vision and articulate opportunities, all under the aegis of improving the city’s quality of life and its competitive advantage.
4. Urban leaders forum.
Host a public forum in which the findings and vision are discussed and future actions may be identified.
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We are an urban laboratory that goes beyond traditional practice.
Our work will address the evolving role of cities and regions in realizing social, economic and environmental aspirations.
Increasingly we will find the solutions to our shared global challenges — from climate change to outmoded infrastructure — in how our cities work.
That’s why we have created the AECOM Global Cities Institute.
The institute draws on the company’s fully integrated planning, design engineering and management capabilities, to help make cities better. Our city teams bring together a wide range of disciplines: from architects and environmental planners, to transport engineers and development economists, to advance urban progress.
The AECOM Global Cities Institute partners with cities to diagnose their most pressing issues, bringing together the best expertise in a multi-disciplinary laboratory that goes beyond traditional practice.
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Beijing, Two steps to a world city (pdf)
Beijing Ambitions Report, January 2012
Published by the AECOM Global Cities Institute
Shining examples of what a city can become
NZ Herald, August 9, 2011
Planning China’s megacities
McKinsey & Company, What Matters, February 1, 2011
Sun Corridor, Future corridor (pdf)
Phoenix-Tucson Ambitions Report, January 2011
Published by the AECOM Global Cities Institute
Global Cities: Beyond traditional practice
NOW, Volume II, Issue 3
‘Inland port’ a vision for jobs, growth in Arizona
The Arizona Republic, Jun. 13, 2010