From Precarious to Inclusive City:

Introduction for Participants

A Workshop for Building an

East Asian Inclusive City Network

Hosted by

URP Taipei Sub–center, National Taiwan University

in collaboration with the

Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

on March 10 (Thu.) – March 11 (Fri.), 2011

at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Objective

In recent years poverty has been concentrating in cities, and this phenomenon of ‘urbanization of poverty’ is receiving great attention from the policy makers as well as academic researchers. The focus here is on how to address the demands of socially disadvantaged groups in vulnerable urban areas, and how to regenerate the neighbourhoods which are facing social exclusion through urban (re)development. In fighting against exclusion, the voices of the disadvantaged groups and neighbourhood people cannot be overlooked.

In East Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China(including Hong Kong SAR) , as the global forces are pushing for economic and industrial restructuring, there have been more difficulties for people in obtaining stable employment and entitlements, including health care, education, housing, etc. To address these issues, we have formed the East Asian Inclusive City Network. This workshop is expected to be the start point for building up the network and will celebrate the establishment of the Taipei Sub-center .

Participants

Each Sub-center (HK SAR, Taiwan, Shanghai, S. Korea) is expected to bring 3 to 6 people to join this workshop (for the host city Taipei, the number of participants is flexible).

Language

This workshop will be conducted in the local language via one-by-one interpretation (not simultaneous).

Participant’s Fee

In principle, each participant from overseas will need to pay for themselves (using their sub-center budget) for their stay during the workshop. However, fees for several participants will be paid for by the Osaka office.

※The Taipei sub-center will be expected to shoulder the management cost of the workshop.

Output

We intend to publish a document series through the URP, OCU.

(Video programs will also be considered).

Program