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The International Workshop On Urban Redevelopment in East Asian Cities

Posted at : 2009-05-02


 
The International Workshop On Urban Redevelopment in East Asian Cities: The People’s Approach
By Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
On 7th – 9th May, 2009
At WLB 306, Wing Lung Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Co-Sponsors:
Research Committee, Hong Kong Baptist University
Research Grant (HKBU 244808), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative egion
Hong Kong Sub-Center, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

Programme

7th May, 2009

9:00 – 9:15 Registration
9:15 – 9:25 Welcoming Ceremony
Kenneth K.K. Wong, Head, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Urban Perspective (1):Setting the Scene
Chair: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki
9:30 – 10:15 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Interrogating Lefebvrian and Others’ Analysis”
10:15 – 10:30 Tea Break
The Urban Perspective (2): Property Regimes
Chair: On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
10:30 – 11:15 Se Hoon PARK, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
“Urban Redevelopment Regime in Seoul: Institution, Governance and Politics”
11:15 – 12:00 Roman CYBRIWSKY, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
“Roppongi Hills and the Mori Solution: An Assessment from Tokyo”
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
Technicality, Rationality and Procedure (1): Policy Process & Concepts
Chair: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
1:30 – 2:15 On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
“Learning from the West and/or from the East – Hegemony of Which Version? The Myth of Policy-Project Learning in
Urban Redevelopment”
2:15 – 3:00 Anne HAILA, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki
“Urban Redevelopment in Singapore: Use and Remembering. Challenging the Western Concepts of Authenticity and
Heritage”
3:00 – 3:15 Tea Break
Technicality, Rationality and Procedure (2): Planning Practices
Chair: Nihal PERERA, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State University
3:15 – 4:00 Hideki KOIZUMI, Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo
“Historical Development of Planning Theory and the Public Realm of Japanese Planning”
4:00 – 4:45 Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National University of Taiwan; and Jen-Chih HUANG,
Organization of Urban Re-s (OURs)
“A City of Two Tales or One? The Changes of Urban Redevelopment Policies and the Social Response in Taipei City”
4:45 – 5:00 Tea Break
Technicality, Rationality and Procedure (3); Urban Research
Chair: Se Hoon PARK, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement
5:00 – 5:45 Hong-Gyu JEON, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, Geerhardt KORNATOWSKI, Urban Research Plaza,
Osaka City University and Won Seok NAM, Housing & Urban Research Institute, Korea
“Housing Support and Community-based Regeneration Strategies for Socially Disadvantaged Areas in Seoul”
5:45 – 6:10 Film Show: Urban Redevelopment in Singapore
Anne Haila, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki
6:30 – 8:15 Welcome Dinner

8th May, 2009

Technicality, Rationality and Procedure (4): Media Coverage
Chair: Joanna W.Y. LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9:00 – 9:45 Yiu Ming TO, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University
“For Whom the Bell Rings: Citizen Awareness, Social Values and the Role of the Press in Urban Re-development in Hong
Kong”
9:45 – 10:30 Tsung-yi Michelle HUANG and Yaoting YAO, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
“Entrepreneurialism and Urban Governance: Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei”
10:30 – 10:45 Tea Break
Anti-Hegemonic Movement?: Local Negotiation
Chair: Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
10:45 – 11:30 Kit-Ping Tammy WONG and Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Grassroots Movement in Hong Kong Urban Redevelopment: The Case of Tsuen Wan Town Centre Redevelopment
Project”
11:30 – 12:15 Takuya MOTOOKA and Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
“Eviction issues of Korean Squatter Settlements in Postwar Hiroshima: The Negotiation Process between Residents and
Local Governments in The ‘Ota River Improvement Project'”
12:15 – 1:00 Hyn Bang SHIN, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
“‘Urban Guerrillas’: Displacees and Their Fight against Forced Eviction”
1:00 – 2:15 Lunch
Hope for Total Transformation (1): Everyday Life
Chair: Roman CYBRIWSKY, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
2:15 – 3:00 Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Redevelopment Without Displacement: Community Mobilization for Livable Housing in Tai Hang Tung”
3:00 – 3:45 Jackie YC KWOK and Kaman TSANG, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
“Redefining Life
Space in Hong Kong – An Ethnographic Study of the Older Opera Singers in Tuen Mun Park”
3:45 – 4:00 Tea Break
Hope for Total Transformation (2): Planning Practices
Chair: Hideki KOIZUMI, Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo
4:00 – 4:45 Jong Gyun SEO, Korea Center for Urban and Environment Research
“Advocate Planning in Redevelopment Projects in Korea”
4:45 – 5:30 Nihal PERERA, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State University
“People’s Towns: Mahaweli Planning in the 1980s”
5:30 – 6:15 Closing Roundtable
6:30 – 8:15 Farewell Dinner

9th May, 2009

Field Trip (details to be supplied)