Aníbal Gaviria

Do cities have personality? How can we identify and analyze the Citentity of our cities? This session will discuss how The Citentity can help us plan our cities better. It will explore a first approach to The Citentity of three existing cities : Barcelona, Medellín and the Mexican city of Mérida, and how their cardinal and guiding traits make them unique and should mark their evolution and development.

Cities have become the production centers of the 21st century. This panel tries to highlight the productive and sustainable dimension of cities as levers for urban transformation and improving the well-being of the population, reaffirming the importance today of public innovation, sustainability and inclusion for the implementation of different initiatives, that developed in these cities and pointing out the challenges they face.