How 'compact cities' guide growth while protecting people and planet
Urban growth and sprawl strain resources and nature – compact city strategies and holistic planning offer solutions.
Cha-Ly Koh is the founder and CEO of Urbanmetry, a data company that cleans and analyzes large amounts of city data through its proprietary algorithms. Prior to her founding of UrbanMetry, Koh served both in the public and private sectors in building and financing cities in the South East Asia region.
Trained in city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, Koh hopes to mobilize data to optimize and solve the most pressing problems for our cities, reducing its emissions towards our net zero future.
Koh is currently an Unreasonable Fellow of the Unreasonable Group and an active member of the World Economic Forums' Global Commission for Nature Positive Cities and Davos Baukultur Alliance.
Urban growth and sprawl strain resources and nature – compact city strategies and holistic planning offer solutions.
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