September 2024

Dubai’s Jumeirah Beach Residence Skyline | Photo by Ghaith Tibi
An interview by Vincent Martinez with Ghaith Tibi. Featured in Architizer.
Ghaith Tibi is an urban planner and sustainable development advisor with extensive experience in city planning and sustainability advisory projects in the Middle East. He was a featured speaker for Architecture 2030’s Official UNFCCC side event titled “Planning, Design, and Development in the Global South: The “How to” for People & Planet” at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Ghaith and I had some time to sit down and chat at COP28 in Dubai about urban planning and decarbonization, including key principles for planning sustainable new cities. The following Q&A builds on some of that discussion and highlights new ways we think about the social and environmental implications of urban planning…
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