Day 2, Hall C, Session 'Centres outside the centre: Moscow's potential as a polycentric megacity'

Day 2, Hall C
12:30 - 14:00
Session "Centres outside the centre: Moscow's potential as a polycentric megacity"

One of the key problems related to the development of agglomerations, including contemporary Moscow, is the lack of centres of attraction capable of competing with the city centre. Is it possible to create such centres and what is required for this?

Speakers:
Sergei Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow
Nikolai Kazansky, Managing Partner of Colliers International in Russia
Andrew Jones, Managing Director of EMEA Design, Planning + Economics& Architecture, AECOM, London, UK
Leonid Smirnyagin, Professor of Socio-Economic Geography of Foreign Countries at the Lomonosov Moscow State University

Panellists:
Alexander Kollontai, Deputy Director of State Unitary Enterprise, Research and Project Institute of the Moscow City Master Plan
Mikhail An, First Deputy Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow
Alena Deryabina, General Director of CJSC Don-Stroy Invest
Ilya Zalivukhin, CEO of Yauzaproekt
Maxim Gasiev, President of the PromSvyazNedvizhimost Group (PSN)
Vladimir Sergunin, Regional Director of Business Development, Colliers International, Russia

Moderator:
Alexander Vysokovsky, Dean of the Graduate School of Urban Studies