5 – 7 April, Seminar, Territories of Metropolis: Compactness, Dispersion, Ecology
Rationale:
“Territories of Metropolis” is an interdisciplinary roundtable conference that aims to explore and compare the processes and implications, terminologies, and practices of diffuse urbanization in Asia and Europe.
The conference will stimulate dialogues and collaborations between scholars and practitioners from a range of different spatial disciplines including landscape architecture, urban planning, geography, architecture and others.
This event is part of the “Seminaires Internationaux Bilateraux”, an initiative by Labex Futurs Urbains. It is co-organized by Labex Futurs Ubains and The University of Hong Kong and will be followed by a separate international seminar in Paris in fall 2016.
Institutional partners:
Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
Labex Futur Urbains (AUSSER, LAB’URBA, LATTS), University of Paris-Est
With the participation of:
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Tongji
Institute of Urban and Demographic Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences
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Content:
Division of Landscape Architecture
Roundtable conference: Territories of Metropolis: Compactness, Dispersion, Ecology. Comparative Perspectives Between Asia and Europe
Venue: Shanghai Study Center, HKU (298 North Suzhou Rd, Shanghai)
Date: 5-7 April 2016
Keynote speakers:
Terence G. McGee
Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria
“Città Diffusa and Kotadesasasi”: Comparing Diffuse Urbanization in Europe and Asia. A Project in the Making“
Andrew M. Marton
Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria
“Diffuse Cities in China: Hybridity, Porosity and Eco-Urbanisation in the Lower Yangzi Delta. Preliminary ideas for a comparative project on diffuse cities in Asia and Europe”
Bénédicte Grosjean
Ecole Nationale Sup d’architecture et de Paysage de Lille, France, UCLouvain, Faculté LOCI, Belgium
“Diffuse urban territories (Belgium and Europe): Concepts, forms, processes”
Participants:
Christopher J. Webster
Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
Greetings
Peng Zhenwei
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, CHINA
“Metropolitan Suburbanization in Shanghai”
Béatrice Mariolle
ENSA Paris-Belleville, Ipraus (Umr AUSser), FRANCE
“Dispersion futures”: Soil fragmentation is not an enemy of living landscapes
Zhuo Jian
College of Architecture and Urban Planning Tongji University, CHINA
“The emerging of Shanghai global city region: centrality and diffusion”
Dorothy Tang
Division of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
“Negotiating the Urban and Rural: Village-based transformation strategies in Panyu”
Qiyu Tu
Institute of Urban and Demographic Studies , Shanghai Academy of Social Science, CHINA
“Shanghai 2040: Global City? Global City-Region? Global City Agglomeration!”
Andrea Palmioli
EDVTT University of Paris-Est, FRANCE, Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU
“Intertextures: processes of polarization and diffusion in Lower Yangtze Delta”
Etienne Monin
Umr PRODIG, University of Paris 8, Vincennes saint-denis, FRANCE
“Agro-industrial development in metropolitan desakota: agricultural trajectories of towns and economical integration in Shanghai rural areas”
Yang Chen
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, CHINA
“Building environment and Social Network Reconstruction in the Large-scale
community in Shanghai”
Adele Esposito
Ipraus (Umr AUSser), CNRS National Center for Scientific Research, FRANCE
“Diffuse and Dispersed Urbanization: State of the Art on Southeast Asia”
Zhang Qinyi
IUAV School of Doctorate Studies in Urbanism, University of Venice, ITALY
“The Horizontal Metropolis”
Cheng Yao
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, CHINA
“The emerging of Shanghai global city region: centrality and diffusion”
Joel Idt
University of Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée, France
Neville Mars
Dynamic City foundation, Shanghai, CHINA
“MUD – Market-Driven Unintentional Development in Asia”
