Alexandra Notay. ULI Advisory Services Panel Shaping the Future of Moscow

ULI Advisory Services PanelShaping the Future of MoscowPresentation at Moscow Urban Forum9th December 2011

Alexandra Notay, VP, Strategic Programmes, ULI

Urban Land Institute

ULI’s mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.

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� Not-for-profit research and education institute founded 1936, USA

� Neutral and Non-lobbying� 30,000+ members across 90 countries

What is an Advisory Panel?

� Selected group of senior executives and multidisciplinary specialists

� Address specific urban challenges and explore opportunities

� Volunteer their time unpaid� Connect, learn and share with each other, the city

and its people� Objective and expert recommendations for a way

forward

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Presentation Agenda

� The ULI panel process� Contributors � Panel Observations: Global Lessons on Cities� The Questions we were asked� Panel Headlines� Key themes + Recommendations� Putting it all Together

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Panel Process

Panel Process

Shaping the Future of MoscowOverview

Jim Heid – Moscow Panel Chair

Jim Heid, Founder, UrbanGreen

Questions:

� How does Moscow become a leading global city?

� What international experience could usefully be applied to ensure the effective integration of the proposed expansion area of the Moscow region into Moscow city?

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Questions:

� How can Moscow develop a sustainable business model for further redevelopment of the city’s former industrial zones?

� How can the Moscow underground be developed according to international experience and best practices?

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Global Lessons on Cities

1. The economy of the future is very different than the economy of the past

2. Open doors and open minds foster vibrant economies

3. Reduced environmental impact and improved liveability is achieved through increased density

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Global Lessons on Cities

4. Fine grained mixed-use development is more economically resilient, more liveable and requires far less land than traditional single use developments

5. A holistic approach to transportation, including aggressive transportation management is essential

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Global Lessons on Cities

6. Education + Health Care have moved beyond simple provision of service to driving the innovation economy

7. Government needs to be an active partner who shares risk with the private sector for successful urban regeneration

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Panel Headlines

� Big City, Great City or Global City?� Global Moscow = Liveable Density� Industrial Zones to Mixed-Use Communities � Connectivity: Underground and Above Ground� It Only Works if Government Works

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Big City, Great City or Global City?

“50% of all cross-border real estate investment is in 30 cities and they’re all the big ones.” (Jones Lang LaSalle)

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Rosemary Feenan, International Director Global Research, Jones Lang LaSalleDavid Adam, Managing Director, Global Cities

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What Makes a Global City?

Global City? Moscow: Prove yourself20

Magnet for Talent

Strong legal systemsEffective

governance

Urban Mobility

Connect with the world

Liveability

World Bank Knowledge Index: 60/146

Transparency International: Russia 31/82

McKinsey City Rankings: 16/25

IBM Commuter Pain Survey: 8/20 (highest pain)

AT Kearney Global City Index: 25/65

Mercer Quality of Living Survey: Not ranked in top 50

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Global Cities need global peopleProgress of Financial Centres Since 2007

InfluencePowerScale

Knowledge CentreInternationalisation

Ambition

GovernanceTransparencyAccountabilityPredictability

Managing TransitionDeveloping Foresight

LiveabilityCulture

InfrastructureConnectivity

Density

Which Global City?Finance Centre

Global CitizenshipTourist DestinationInternational Hub

The Fundamentals for Moscow as a Global City

The Globally MobileInvestorsCitizensVisitorsTalent

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Recommendations – global city

� Choose a Ranking focusing on 3 key areas:� connectivity� governance� internationalisation

� Develop Metrics to measure success

� Leverage Current Strengths: keeper of European culture

� Make statements of global invitation

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Global Moscow = Liveable Density

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Christopher Choa, Vice President / Principal AECOM

“Moscow is losing a lot of people because it’s not livable.” (Interviewee)

� All great cities are dense cities.� density brings people together� 100 densest cities = 30% global wealth

= almost all global innovation� density = wealth, when supported by:

� mixed land uses� educated population� vibrant urban environment� Integrated transport� private enterprise� supportive governance

Global Moscow = DENSITY25

� confusion of density and congestion

Global Moscow = DENSITY26

MOSCOW10,300 residents/sq.km

INNER LONDON10,900 residents/sq.km

MANHATTAN26,800 residents/sq.km

Global Moscow = DENSITY27

� global city density > 10,000 residents/sq.km

Global Moscow = DENSITY

amsterdam frankfurt beijing shanghai new york paris

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� 24-hour vitality: mixed land uses

Global Moscow = VITALITY

london new york stockholm hong kong moscow

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� high-quality public space

Global Moscow = VITALITY

tokyo shanghai new york

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� urban contract: 70% of daily activities within-� 10 minute walk� 30 minute transit

Global Moscow = CONNECTED 31

Moscow London

Global Moscow = CITY FOR PEOPLE

New Yorkinner outer southwark bronx

URBAN TEXTURE32

� ”We have found 15,000 hectares for you!”

Global Moscow = REGENERATED

industrial zones along the small Railroad Ring

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From Industrial Zones to Mixed-Use

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Erwin Daalhuisen, Senior Consultant Area Development, Fakton

“Moscow has all these great assets on prime real estate but limited ideas. We can’t keep doing the same thing.” (Interviewee)

Redevelopment of industrial zones

� Modern industry will require less space� Prioritisation, clustering and relocation of

industries will free up many of the industrial zones� These zones are suitable for redevelopment:

�Close to the city centre and universities�Potentially great access by road and rail�Industrial heritage�Waterfront locations

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Availability of industrial zones

� There is a chain of industrial heritage assets waiting to be redeveloped…

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Availability of industrial zones

� There is a chain of industrial heritage assets waiting to be redeveloped…

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� Move from data to analysis� Evaluate and prioritise

industrial zones on relative opportunity for regeneration

� Develop strategic, mixed-use vision for transformation of priority industrial zones

Understand your Asset 39

� Complete clean up� Exploit existing industrial heritage � Invest in infrastructure� Create pleasing public space

Create Value40

Relocate government departments as pioneers and first users

Mix in other uses for synergy Innovation Economy

�Financial Services�Housing and Retail�Parks and Open Space

Define the Market41

Pilot Project – Moskvich

Innovation and Creativity

� Universities, hospitals and research institutes will become economic engines

� An entrepreneurial spirit has to be encouraged, start-ups must be nurtured, and access to financing must be ensured

� The city of Moscow can help in accelerating the transition

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Russia lags in R&D spending

World of Research & Development 2010

Circle size reflects relative of amount of annual R&D spending

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The importance of higher education

� Successful cities have universities in the top echelons of the global rankings. Moscow is not yet represented.

� The best universities attract international talent and research. They also create jobs and wealth with strong links to local economies

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Recommendations - Education

� Moscow needs minimum of two universities at high position in the international rankings by 2021

� The initial building blocks include the internationalization of academic standards and the increasing international mobility of staff and students

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Connectivity: Underground and Above Ground

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Dr Michael Denkel, Urban Planner, Albert Speer & Partner GmbHRobert Ravelli, Associate Director, Contemporary Transport

“We need our cars. Public transport doesn’t take us where we need to go. It’s not convenient.” (Interviewee)

Connectivity – Underground and Above Ground

� … affects overall Quality of Life� … enhances Development Opportunities

� 6% of land area of city contains 40% of work places.� 9% of Moscow’s land is for roads – compared to 25%

in European Cities.� Metro system is at its limits.

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Connectivity – Underground and Above Ground

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Mobility and Land Use

� Comfortable and sustainable transport begins with the right settlement pattern…

� Balance between Land Use and Transportation Infrastructure.� Encourage office developments outside Third Ring Road.� Within MKAD mixed-use centres located at transport nodes.� Locate more housing in the core to encourage walk to work� Urban Extensions outside MKAD as self sufficient satellites.

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Public Transport

� Better use of the existing systems to relieve pressure on Metro…

� Integrate all modes of transport into one agency and enhance intermodal connections

� Use Small Moscow Railway Ring for passenger transport.� Upgrade regional rail lines to provide relief to Metro.� Bus Rapid Transit on ring roads / radial roads� Tram and Bus as feeders into district areas and rail lines

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Street Management

� Insufficient road network contributes to congestion…

� Enhance road sub network as 2nd layer� Reduce car detours by more rail and river crossings� Give parking a price. Manage off-street parking. Make it have a

value. � Park and Ride lots at selected regional rail stations.

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Street Management

Uncontrolled On-Street Parking Low connectivity street network

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Mobility Management

� Reduce the need to travel. Provide mobility choices. Change travel behaviour…

� Traffic and parking management by travel information, signage and telematics.

� Promote different modes of travel (bus, car sharing, taxi, bike, pedestrian)

� Manage delivery services and inner city freight transport.

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It Only Works if Government Works

“Moscow cannot be a global city unless the regional/city governance problems are resolved.” (Interviewee)

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Tom Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, ULIand Former Mayor of Pittsburgh, USA

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1-2 December 2009

To go from this…

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1-2 December 2009

…to this, requires a city to be…

Management

� Liveable Cities Depend on Good Basic Services:

� Clean� Safe� Efficient� Accountable� Cost Effective

Invest in the future

� Leadership

� Vision

� Institutional Capacity

Chicago, Navy Pier

� Public/private financing

� Transparency

� Design Excellence

Seattle, Public Library

Invest in the future

� Organise institutional capacity within the city government

� Maximise value creation and value capturing from redevelopment

� Engage in creative, lasting partnerships� Show absolute and continuing commitment

from the leadership of the city

Recommended Actions: Government

Closing Question:

�What international experience could usefully be applied to ensure the effective integration of the proposed expansion area of the Moscow region into Moscow city?

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Expansion?

Appropriate as a long term strategy

Controls to protect resources

Limit new development

Keep major new development in the core

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New Moscow Borders

Closing Recommendations

� Stay Focused on the Core� Change the strategy for industrial zones� Use government facilities as catalyst for

regeneration� Improve mobility networks and management� Elevate education and internationalise� Change the culture of government

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Putting it all together –MOSCOW 2025

� 150 sqkm (15,000 ha) of regenerated industrial zones

� Pioneered by relocated, re-energized government departments

� Which anchor new mixed-use, live/work neighbourhoods

� All linked by railway ring

� Freeing up congestion in the central core

� Creating a more Liveable Moscow, and

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Making Moscow – a LEADING GLOBAL CITY

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“I think that Moscow has a lot of the elements of a global city but it just needs a ‘little push’ to get there!” (Interviewee)

Questions?

� Welcome the world� Change focus from industrial zones to mixed-use� Government facilities as pioneer for regeneration� Connect the city, the people and the sites � Improve mobility networks and management� Elevate higher education to world class status� Change the culture of government

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