Shanghai Conference Programme | 7-9 July 2005

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FRIDAY 8 JULY

OPENING SESSION   08.30-08.45

Welcome

Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank

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Urban Age Project: The story so far

Ricky Burdett, Director Urban Age, LSE and Architectural Advisor to the Mayor of London

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Richard Sennett, LSE

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SHANGHAI - NEW YORK - LONDON   08.45-10.45

addressing urban change

Chair: Ricky Burdett, LSE and Xiangming Chen, University of Illinois

 

Shanghai | 15 min

Shiling Zheng, Professor of Architecture, Tongji University

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New York | 15 min

Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance, New York

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London | 15 min

Anthony Mayer, Chief Executive, Greater London Authority

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Power: comparing systems of urban governance | 10 min

Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard University

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Identity: the meaning of form in three cities | 10 min

Deyan Sudjic, Dean of the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture,
Kingston University

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Debate

open discussion | 55 min

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LABOUR MARKET AND WORK PLACES   11.00-12.45

After the surge: How to enhance Shanghai’s urban economy?

Chair: Xuejin Zuo, SASS and Tony Travers, LSE

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Urban Age so far – Labour market

Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, Hamburg University of Technology

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PRESENTATIONS

The future economic profile of Shanghai | 15 min

Qiyu Tu, Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

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Architectural typologies of Shanghai’s new economy | 15 min

Frank Duffy, Principal, DEGW London

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RESPONSES (5 minutes each)

Zaiming Pu, Deputy Director, Commission for Reform and Development

 

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago

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Yuemin Ning, Professor of Urban Geography, East China Normal University

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Xiangming Chen, Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning and Policy University of Illinois at Chicago

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Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

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Dajian Zhu, Professor, Tongji and Harvard University

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DEBATE

open discussion | 40 min

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MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT   14.15-16.00

Faster but further: Is Shanghai’s transport system moving in the right direction?

Chair: Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu, Tongji University and Ricky Burdett, LSE

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Urban Age so far – Mobility

Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna

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PRESENTATIONS

Planning for movement and people | 15 min

Ximing Lu, Director, Shanghai City Comprehensive Transportation Planning Institute

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Designing spaces for movement | 15 min

Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá

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RESPONSES (5 minutes each)

Xuejin Zuo, Executive Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

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Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE

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Xiaohong Chen, Professor of Transport Planning, Tongji University

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Hitoshi Ieda, Professor of Transport, University of Tokyo

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Geetam Tiwari, Professor of Transport Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

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Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects

 

 

DEBATE

open discussion | 40 min

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DEBATE   16.15-17.45

How do we govern? The theory and praxis of urban models

Chair: Tony Travers, LSE and Shiling Zheng, Tongji University

Opening Statement

Andy Altman, CEO, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, Washington D.C. and Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Zhiping Tang, Deputy Director, Shanghai Bureau for Urban Planning and Management

 

Xuejin Zuo, Executive Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

 

Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

 

Wang Shi, Chairman, China Vanke Co Ltd.

 

Anthony Mayer, Chief Executive, Greater London Authority

 

Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance, New York

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DEBATE

open discussion | 30 min

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SATURDAY 9 JULY

PUBLIC LIFE AND URBAN SPACE   10.00-11.45

Living with the future: How can Shanghai’s residents keep up with the city’s transformation?

Chair: Xizhe Peng, Fudan University and Ricky Burdett, LSE

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Urban Age so far – Public life

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

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PRESENTATIONS

Quality of life and spatial distribution of migrants in Shanghai | 15 min

Guixin Wang, Professor of Population Research, Fudan University

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Society and urban space: observations on Shanghai | 15 min

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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RESPONSES (5 minutes each)

Hanlong Lu, Professor of Social Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

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Xizhe Peng, Dean, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University

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Linchu Zhu, Deputy Director, Shanghai Centre for Research and Development

 

David Adjaye, Principal, Adjaye Associates

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Yongyi Lu, Professor, Tongji University

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DEBATE

open discussion | 45 min

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HOUSING AND NEIGHBOURHOODS 12.00-13.30

Trading city for space: Does more personal living space lead to urban sprawl in Shanghai?

Chair: Yung Ho Chang, Beijing and Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

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Searching for space

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

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PRESENTATIONS

Designing the city: Lessons from hyper-growth | 15 min

Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu, Dean and Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

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Shanghai: Speculations on the model | 15 min

Rem Koolhaas, Principal, Office of Metropolitan Architecture

 

RESPONSES (5 minutes each)

Jiang Wu, Vice Director, Planning Bureau Shanghai

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Qingyun Ma, Principal, MADA Architects Shanghai

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Johannes Dell, Partner, Albert Speer & Partner Shanghai

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Yue Wu, Chief Planner, Bureau of Development and Planning of Pudong District, Shanghai

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Eric Parry, Principal, Eric Parry Architects London

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DEBATE

open discussion | 45 min

 

 

DEBATE   14.30-16.00

Cityness in the Urban Age

Chair: Guanzen Zhang, Tongji University and Deyan Sudjic, Kingston University

Opening Statement

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago

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Urbanism that does not stop at the city edges

Qingyun Ma, Principal, MADA Architects Shanghai

 

 

PANEL DISCUSSION

Jiang Wu, Vice Director, Planning Bureau Shanghai

 

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects

 

Xizhe Peng, Dean, Fudan University School of Social Policy and Development

 

Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá

 

Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Beijing

 

Rem Koolhaas, Principal, Office of Metropolitan Architecture

 

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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DEBATE   16.15-17.15

Shanghai – the speed and the friction

Chair: Jiang Wu, Shanghai Planning Bureau and Ricky Burdett, LSE

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CONTRIBUTIONS

Zhang Xin, Joint CEO, Soho China, Beijing

 

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

 

Jinhai Zhu, Executive Deputy Director, Institute of Economics, Shanghai Commission on Reform and Development

 

Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna

 

Deyan Sudjic, Dean of the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture,
Kingston University

 

Wang Shi, Chairman, China Vanke Co Ltd.

 

Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, TU Hamburg-Harburg

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CONCLUSIONS   17.15-18.00

 

OVERVIEW

Andy Altman, CEO, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, Washington D.C. and Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005

 

Xiangming Chen, Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE

 

open discussion | 30 min

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank

 

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

 

 

RECEPTION   19.00-21.00

SPEAKERS

Feng Gao, Head of Shanghai Branch, Deutsche Bank

 

Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank

 

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

Friday 8 july

08.30 Opening Session

08.45 Shanghai - New York - London

11.00 Labour Market and Work Places

14.15 Mobility and Transport

16.15 Debate

 


Saturday 9 July

10.00 Public Life and Urban Space

12.00 Housing and Neighbourhoods

14.30 Debate I

16.15 Debate II

17.15 Conclusions

19.00 Reception

 

 
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