Sub-centers

Shanghai sub-center

Shanghai sub-center has been set up in the East China Normal University in Shanghai. Collaborating with the staff of the Center for Contemporary Urban Society (ECNU), we investigate the evicted slums formed by the redevelopment of Shanghai, the actual conditions of social exclusion in a densely settled area of immigrants and the policies responding to the challenges. The results are published in the Urban Research Series.

Yogyakarta

The Yogyakarta Sub-center was established in cooperation with the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) and the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM). The old city of Yogyakarta is the large base of a cultural art of Indonesia, especially in Java, and it is also a ‘city of universities’ as around 120 institutions of higher institutions are located there. Since 2003, we have been holding international forums continuously at the Yogyakarta Sub-center jointly with the ISI and the UGM every year.
URP Yogyakarta Sub-center: http://www.ucrc-yogya.or.id/

Bangkok

As a vibrant and busy gateway of the Southeast Asia, Bangkok in Thailand is well connected with the world. The Bangkok sub-center is located in the Chulalongkorn University which is the most well-known educational institution in Thailand. We arrange annually academic panel discussions in cooperation with the department of Arts of the Chulalongkorn University aiming to offer a forum for an international exchange of human talents.
URP Bangkok Sub-center: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~sbussako/urp.htm

Los Angeles

Based on the “LA-Osaka Comparative Urban Studies Program,” we advance our research currently in collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC). Our research objective is to investigate the interrelationships and transnational networks in-between Los Angeles and Osaka as the two of global metropolises in the Pacific Rim. We are building up a database to contain information archiving the comparative studies between these two cities. We aspire not only to serve academic scholars but also various communities in USA and Japan.
LA-OSAKA　Project
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/historylab/LA_Osaka/

Hong Kong

Hong Kong sub-center was opened in Hong Kong Baptist University on January 7th, 2008. We collaborate with the staff of geography, urban planning, and social welfare on the side of Hong Kong. We investigate urban regeneration and the local residents’ movement caused by the redevelopment in Hong Kong, the homeless people problem and the housing problem, and the social exclusion provoked by new town development.

Melbourne

The sub-center has been set up in Melbourne, one of the “Creative Cities” of UNESCO. The sub-center is located in the University of Melbourne, well-known of creating various community colleges. This sub-center is expected to be a stronghold for efforts to investigate practical ways of social inclusion in the multicultural society and to create new urban visions from the fusion of both academic and “civic wisdom”. (As is in Apr. 2009).

Seoul

Seoul sub-center is located at KOCER: Korea Center for City and Environment Research which is a non-profit and independent research organization. KOCER was originally founded as the Urban Poor Research Institute (UPRI) in 1985 to support poor urban communities. Today the aim of KOCER is to analyze domestic urban issues scientifically and to develop reasonable policy alternatives in order to find better solutions while advocating independent urban grassroots movements.
KOCER　http://kocer.re.kr/2003/usa-index.html

Oxford

The international journal of “City, Culture & Society” of the Urban Research Plaza will be published in the year 2010 with Elsevier, Ltd. The editorial office is based in the sub-center of the University of Oxford in the UK. The office is expected to establish the journal as a recognized forum of the urban studies in the Asian settings. Further, the sub-center arranges the programmes of academic English in collaboration with the University of Oxford. (As is in Apr. 2009).