Great Asian Streets Symposium 2016

Mike Lydon is the co-author of Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change. He will be the keynote speaker at The Great Asian Street Symposium (GASS) 2016. Lydon is an internationally recognized planner, writer, and advocate for livable cities. Lydon is Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, an international award-winning planning, design, and research-advocacy firm based in Miami, New York City, and San Francisco.

GASS was initiated in 2001 at the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University
of Singapore (NUS), in response to the long-standing lack of truly Asian perspectives in the literature and research on Asian cities. GASS aimed
to establish an Asian-rooted center of excellence to foster exchange and communication of ideas and studies within this field.

Over the past 15 years, GASS has successfully shared and integrated cutting-edge debates and discussions on many problems and challenges confronting
Asian cities, such as traffic congestion, air pollution, social segregation, environmental degradation, and slum proliferation. On this basis, the GASS community
has also created a significant knowledge base with exemplary policies and design practices that effectively addressed the above-mentioned issues and played an important role as a catalyst for constructive and creative thinking about Asian cities in the 21st century.