C'est Magnifique: Bloomberg + Aspen Institute + The Atlantic Take City Lab to Paris - The City of Light

CityLab Paris: Preeminent Annual Summit to Convene Mayors, City Innovators, and Leaders from Across the Globe to Discuss Opportunities and Challenges Facing Cities

CityLab to be held October 22-24 

Presented by the Aspen Institute, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Philanthropies

https://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/citylab-2017/2017/

 

CityLab is a celebration of cities and city life. This one of a kind ​gathering brings together mayors from around the world, along with urban experts, business leaders, artists and activists.  
This year we will be in Paris, a global center for art, fashion, food and culture. The city ​offers an extraordinary backdrop for this change-making experience. For two and a half days, participants come together to explore solutions for the most pressing issues facing city leaders and city dwellers alike. Through panel discussions, one on one conversations, workshops and field trips, the event is a showcase for innovation and ingenuity. And while there are deep divisions in the world today, CityLab attendees are united by their ambition to make their cities more vibrant and livable. 
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Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. (September 8, 2017)—From climate change and transnational security to inclusive economic growth and affordability, global cities are often the source of the most transformative thinking regarding the world’s most urgent challenges. Identifying effective and replicable solutions will be central to conversations at the fifth annual “CityLab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges” event in Paris, France in October. A partnership between the Aspen Institute, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, CityLab is the preeminent meeting of city leaders and the top minds in urbanism and city planning, economics, education, art and architecture, community development, and business— convened with the goal of creating scalable solutions to major challenges faced by cities everywhere.

CityLab Paris will take place on October 22-24, 2017, at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand.

“Europe and America are grappling with dual questions of identity, nationalism, and internationalism, and cities are playing a key role as centers of gravity for these debates,”

Paris Mayor and C40 Chair Anne Hidalgo, who will speak at CityLab, reflects on the selection of Paris to host the summit: “I am delighted that the fifth edition of CityLab will be taking place in Paris. The summit will provide a great forum for leaders from across the world to exchange innovative ideas and strengthen coordination and collaboration in our common fight for a sustainable and equitable future.”

Also confirmed to attend CityLab Paris are the mayors (or officials of equivalent position) of London, Liverpool, West Midlands, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; Hong Kong, China; Helsinki, Finland; Auckland, Wellington, New Zealand; Riga, Latvia; Dunkerque, France; Kingston, Jamaica; Rikuzentakata, Japan; Turin, Italy; and from the United States Anchorage, Alaska; Durham, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Stockton, California.

Among the featured speakers this year are:

• Michael R. Bloomberg, three-term mayor of New York City,
• entrepreneur and philanthropist; author and The Atlantic’s national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has lived at times in Paris;
• Stanford University economist Raj Chetty;
• former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy;
• novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;
• architect and urban planner Yona Friedman;
• art curator and artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, Hans Ulrich Obrist;
• The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg;
• terrorism expert Gilles Kepel,
• Amsterdam’s Night Mayor Mirik Milan and
• London’s Night Czar Amy Lamé.

 

“Collaboration fuels creativity and helps great ideas spread – that’s the aim of CityLab, which brings people together from around the world to learn from one another and address common challenges. We’re excited to be hosting this year’s edition in Paris, where Mayor Hidalgo is building on the city’s long history of urban innovation,” said Bloomberg.

CityLab was founded on the principle that urban solutions can be applied to global problems.

 

In 2017, the summit returns to Europe to grapple with a raft of issues:

• the environment and the future of the Paris climate agreement;
• cybersecurity and networked cities
• the urban-rural divide
• autonomous vehicles and next generation transportation
• social cohesion and inclusive growth
• refugees and migration
• terrorism and security
• social and economic mobility.

Using Paris—and the key challenges and opportunities that animate it—as the backdrop, CityLab will explore how mayors and cities can best collaborate to introduce new ideas for entrenched urban problems, particularly in these divided times.