CELEBRATION: Opening of Takahara Hall Urban Research Plaza Week
Posted at : 2006-12-22
December 18 (Monday) to December 22 (Friday) 2006
Hosted by Urban Research Plaza
Sponsored by
Yukokai and Osaka City University Associates
At the Urban Research Plaza, to celebrate the opening this November
of Takahara Hall, we are planning an ‘Urban Research Plaza Week’ from
December 18 (Monday) through December 22 (Friday) that will include
an international symposium, specialist workshops, poster sessions,
and an opening reception party. We hope that everyone will actively
participate.
Download: URP week Abstracts
(1.12MB)
Preliminary Schedule of URP Week
| Dec.18 (Mon) | 12:30-14:00 | Opening Lecture | Poster Exhibition |
| Dec.19 (Tue) | 13:00-14:30 | URP Lecture | |
| 15:00-17:30 | Poster Session | ||
| 18:30-21:00 | Forum at the Nishinari Plaza Theme: The Oil Tycoon and Hollywood – Los Angels in the 1930-40s – |
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| Dec.20 (Wed) | 14:00-17:30 | Hong Kong – Osaka Forum Theme: Shedding Light on Osaka from Hong Kong’s Experience as a Global City |
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| Dec.21 (Thu) | 13:00-17:00 | International Conference Open Session Theme: Images and Realities of the Cities in the 21st Century |
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| 18:00-20:00 | Main Reception | ||
| Dec, 22 (Fri) | 10:00-12:00 | Closed Conference for Experts Session 1 Theme: The Global Cities and beyond. |
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| 13:00-15:00 | Closed Conference for Experts Session 2 Theme: Historical retrospect of the changing cultural creativity of cities in the 20th century. |
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| 15:30-17:30 | Closed Conference for Experts Session 3 Theme: Assumption and Policy Agenda for Human Settlement in Cities |
Dec.18(Mon)
Opening Lecture
Theme: Urban Studies – the past, present, and the future –
| Time: | 12:30-14:00 |
| Venue: | Main Hall at Takahara Hall |
| Capacity: | 150 seats |
| Lecturer: | Kenichi Miyamoto (Emeritus Professor of OCU) |
| Chair: | Toshio Kamo (Director of OCU/URP) |
Dec. 19 (Tue)
URP Lecture
Theme: Tax and Finance System of Large Cities in Japan – history, issues, and
agenda –
| Time: | 13:00-14:30 |
| Venue: | Takahara Hall |
| Capacity: | 40 seats |
| Lecturer: | Osamu Kimura (Adjunct Lecturer of OCU/URP) |
| Chair: | Toshio Kamo (Director of OCU/URP) |
Poster Session
* Poster Session Program (PDF)* Poster Session Abstract (PDF)
| Time: | 15:00-17:30 |
| Venue: | Takahara Hall |
Forum at the Nishinari
Plaza
Theme: The Oil Tycoon and Hollywood – Los Angels in the 1930-40s
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| Time: | 18:30-21:00 |
| Venue: | Nishinari Plaza |
| Capacity: | 50 seats (provide simultaneous interpretation) |
| Lecturer: | Philip Ethington (Professor at the University of Southern California) |
| Title: | “Global Spaces of Los Angeles in the 20th Century: Oil, Hollywood, and Counterrevolution” |
| Moderator: | Toshio Mizuuchi (Professor of OCU/URP) |
Dec. 20 (Wed)
Hong Kong – Osaka
Forum
Theme: Shedding Light on Osaka from Hong Kong’s Experience as a
Global City
| Time: | 14:00-17:30 |
| Venue: | Takahara Hall |
| Capacity: | 40 seats（English Only） |
| Tutors: | Takeshi Haraguchi (Research Assistant of OCU/URP) “The Creation of ‘Tourist City’ and the Attack on Homeless People: Neoliberal Urbanism in Osaka City, Japan.” * Full Paper (English) Toshio Mizuuchi (Professor of OCU/URP) “The Impact of Homeless Issues on the Mode of Urban Governance:the Situations in Osaka and Hong Kong”* Full Paper (English) |
(Associate Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University)
“Redevelopment and the Displacement of the Working Class in Hong Kong”
* Full Paper (English)
Comment:Meekam NG
(Associate Professor at the CUPEM, Hong Kong University)
Anne Haila
(Professor at the University of Helsinki)Chair:Kenkichi NAGAO
(Associate Professor of OCU)
Dec. 21(Thu)
International Conference
Open Session
Theme: Images and Realities of the Cities in the 21st Century
| Time: | 13:00-17:00 |
| Venue: | Osaka City University’s Media Center 10th Floor Main Conference Room |
| Capacity: | 250 seats (provide simultaneous interpretation) |
| Overall Host: | Toshio Mizuuchi (Professor of OCU/URP) Setsuko Nakajima (Associate Professor ofHuman Life Science) |
| Opening Address: | Satoru Kaneko (President of Osaka City University) |
| Keynote Speech: | Allen J. Scott (Professor of UCLA) Title: Creative cities: conceptual issues and policy questions. |
Speakers:Edmond Preteceille
(Director of Research, Paris. CNRS, Science PO.)
“THE RESISTANCE OF THE DUAL CITY MODEL”
* Full Paper (English)
(Vice Director of OCU/URP)
“The Theory of “Creative Cities” in Japan and the Issues Concerning Policy”
* Full Paper (Japanese)
Meekam NG
(Associate Professor at the CUPEM, Hong Kong University)
“Globality, Sustainability and Creativity: World Cities Contest”
* Full Paper (English)
Anne Haila
(Professor at the University of Helsinki)
“Defining Rights: the Challenge to Urbanism”
* Full Paper (English)
Discussant:Hiroshi Yahagi
(Professor at the Graduate School of Creative Cities, OCU)
* Comment (English)
Chair:Toshio Kamo
(Director of OCU/URP)
Dec, 22 (Fri)
Closed Conference for Experts
Time:10:00-17:30
Venue: Takahara Hall
Capacity: 40 seats (provide simultaneous interpretation)
Session 1:
Theme: The Global Cities and beyond.
| Time: | 10:00-12:00 |
| Speakers: | Edmond Preteceille (Director of Research, Paris. CNRS, Science PO.) “RECONSIDERING THE GLOBAL CITY FROM THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE” |
Toshio Kamo
(Director of OCU/URP)
“The Future of the World Cities: Beyond Economic-Military Globalism”
* Full Paper (English)
Discussant:Allen J. Scott
(Professor of UCLA)Chair:Masayuki Sasaki
(Vice Director of OCU/URP)
Session 2:
Theme: Historical retrospect of the changing cultural creativity
of cities in the 20th century.
| Time: | 13:00-15:00 |
| Speakers: | Shinya Hasizume (Professor of OCU/URP) ” The Cultural Landscape and Osaka: The Creative Use of Historic Buildings and the Cultural Landscape” * Full Paper (English) |
(Professor at the University of Southern California)
“Cultural Creativity in a Global Metropolitan Region:
the Commercial-Critical Dynamic of Los Angeles”
* Full Paper (English)Discussant:Jeffrey Hanes
(Associate Professor at the University of Oregon)Chair:Toshio Mizuuchi
(Professor of OCU/URP)
Session 3:
Theme: Assumption and Policy Agenda for Human Settlement in Cities
| Time: | 15:30-17:30 |
| Speakers: | Jean-Claude Driant (Professor of Paris 12 University) ” Housing Markets and Housing Policies in France:The Stakes of Decentralization “ |
Yumi Sato
(Adjunct Lecturer of OCU/URP)
“Towards a Sustainable City:
Housing Policies in the Face of Population Decline and Aging”
* Full Paper (English)Discussant:Sakon Tajimi
(Professor at the Graduate School of Human Life Science, OCU)Chair:Mieko Hinokidani
(Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Human Life Science,
OCU)
Urban Research Plaza Opening Symposium Organizing Committee
| SASAKI, Masayuki | (Chairman, Vice Director of Urban Research Plaza, Creative Cities Research Dept. Chair) |
| KAMO, Toshio | (Urban Research Plaza Director, Professor of Law) |
| MIZUUCHI, Toshio | (URP Professor) |
| HASHIZUME, Shinya | (URP Professor) |
| SATO, Yumi | (URP Adjunct Lecturer) |
| SUGIURA, Mikio | (URP Adjunct Lecturer) |
| HONDA, Tetsuo | (Associate Professor of Business) |
| NAGAO, Kenkichi | (Associate Professor of Economics) |
| UCHIDA, Takashi | (Associate Professor of Engineering) |
| KANA, Koichi | (Associate Professor of Engineering) |
| TANI, Naoki | (Professor of HumanLife Science) |
| NAKAJIMA, Setsuko | (Associate Professor of Human Life Science) |
| YAHAGI, Hiroshi | (Professor of Creative Cities Research) |
For more information:
office@ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585 JAPAN
Telephone: (+81) 06-6605-2071
Fax: (+81) 06-6605-2069