Seminars and Public Lectures

   
7 June 2011

Global Power City Index 2010 - Power of the Inner Cities
Hiroo Ichikawa
PhD Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University, JAPAN

Takayuki Kubo, JIA
Architect/Researcher, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation, JAPAN

   
2 June 2010 Mega Urban Transport Project and Sustainable Development
Billy Y W KWAN
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
5 May 2010 Re-visiting Limits to Growth
Prof. Bill Barron
Institute for the Environment, HKUST
   
28 April 2010 The pros and cons of Confucian values for infrastructure development
Dr. Martin de Jong
   
7 April 2010 Regional planning and cross-border cooperation in the Western Pearl River Delta
Ms. Pui Si HON
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
7 April 2010 Mega Urban Transport Project and Sustainable Development
Billy Y W KWAN
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
31 March 2010 Green Port Development and Competitiveness – Its driving forces and latest practices in shipping sectors
Pauline Wong
Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), Hong Kong
   
30 Mar 2010 - 1 Apr 2010 Tragedy of the Urban Commons
Prof. Chris Webster
Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, United Kingdom
   
24 March 2010 The rationality of power and the power of rationality in Harbour reclamation in Hong Kong
Dr. M K Ng
DUPAD, HKU
   

6 March 2010
Saturday

 

The Technology and Ethics of 'Collaborative Planning'
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Rm. KB-223, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong
Prof. Patsy Healey
Professor emeritus in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape,
The University of Newcastle, UK

   
3 March 2010 Preservation with Development: Precedent Study
Hugo CHAN
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
3 February 2010 Social Sustainability of Public Rental Housing in South Korea
Bokyong Grace, SEO
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
20 January 2010 The Winners in China’s Urban Housing Reform
Professor John R. Logan
Professor of Sociology and Director of the initiative on
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences at Brown University
   
From 16/01/2010 to 27/03/2010 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Seminars
Urban Planning and Practice in China
Department of Urban Planning and Design
The University of Hong Kong
   
13 January 2010 Access to Housing in Urban China
Professor John R. Logan
Professor of Sociology and Director of the initiative on
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences at Brown University
   
6 January 2010 China’s Urban informality and Urban Spatial transformation
Kaizhi LIU
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
16 December 2009 Global Power City Index – New Tool for Urban Planning
Professor Hiroo Ichikawa
Dean of the Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University, JAPAN
Dr. Takayuki Kubo, JIA
Architect/Researcher of Institute for Urban Strategies, the Mori Memorial Foundation, JAPAN
   
7 December 2009 Train Stations in France, between Rail Speed, Local Service, Intermodality and Sustainable Development
Professor Yves Boquet
Professor of geography, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
   
2 December 2009 Urban Transition of Shenzhen City, China
Botao SU
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
2 December 2009 Urban and Regional Planning for the Hong Kong – Shenzhen Technople
Yuanzhou TANG
PhD Candidate of DUPAD, HKU
   
10 November 2009 APA in China: Update and discussion
Prof. Jeffrey Soule, FAICP
Director of Outreach and International
Liu Yuan
Managing Advisor of APA China Program
   
29 October 2009 Dynamic Externalities and City Industry Growth in the Transitional
Prof. Canfei HE
Professor of College of Urban and Environmental Science, Peking University
   
11 November 2009 The Housing Transition in Mexico: Local Impacts of National Policy
Dr. Paavo MONKKONEN
Assistant Professor of DUPAD, HKU
   
9 October 2009 Capture, Analysis and Applications of Spatiotemporal Data (Jointly organized with Institute of Transport Studies)
Prof. Qingquan LI
Director of Transport Research Center; Executive Vice-President of Wuhan University
   
7 October 2009 Hong Kong’s Investment Banking Networks
Prof. David Meyer
Senior Lecturer in Management, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
   
11 September 2009 Planning Complexity – Theory and Practice
Dr Elisabete A. Silva
University Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
   
25 May 2009 Local Indicators of Network‐constrained Clusters in Spatial Patterns Represented by Point Features or by a Link Attribute
Prof. Jean‐Claude Thill
   
2009年5月8 日 仿唐木構建築信息系統的建立與在文物保護中的應用
朱宜萱教授
武漢大學測繪遙感信息工程國家重點實驗室教授
   
6 May 2009 Eco-governance, civil society and the need for integrated urban carbon management: The cases of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei
Mr David Sadoway
   
22 April 2009 Short‐Interval Monitoring of Urban Land Development Using Multi‐Temporal RADARSAT‐2 Images
Mr. Zhixin Qi
   
21 March 2009 Master Plan Making by Chinese Local Government: A Case of Guangzhou
Mr. YI Xiaofeng
Deputy Director
Centre of Urban Planning Research
of Guangzhou Planning Institute (GZPI)
   
27 February 2009 Global housing price boom and the subprime crisis, 1997 -2008
Dr. Kyung-Hwan Kim
Academic Dean and Professor of Economics
Sogang University, Korea
   
2009年2月26日 「變遷中的社區」——北京護國寺地區城市社區案例研究
黄鹭新主任
中国城市规划设计研究院国际城市规划研究室主任
   
25 February 2009 Please Leave the Country by Lift: Seeking Models for the Urbanization of the Hong Kong Shenzhen Border
Mr. Jonathan D. Solomon
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
University of Hong Kong
   
25 February 2009 The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Greenhouse Gas Reductions of Station Precinct/ Transit-oriented Developments
Professor John Black
University of New South Wales and University of Sydney
   
11 February 2009 Second Homes in Ireland During and After the Housing Boom
Prof. Chris Paris
AcSS Emeritus Professor of Housing
University of Ulster Magee campus
   
14 January 2009 A Study of Urban Competitiveness in the Urban Agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta Region
Ms XIAN Shi
   
   
10 January 2009 A Town and Gown Symposium: Hong Kong as a Sustainable World City: Planning, Housing and Design
   
26 November 2008 Using an Institutional Framework for Assessing Housing Problems: an Australian Case Study
Professor Terry Burke
Institute for Social Research
Swinburne University of Technology
   
   
12 November 2008

From Danwei Compound to Xiaoqu: Spatial Restructuring and Travel Behavior Changes in Beijing, China
Professor Donggen Wang
Department of Geography
Hong Kong Baptist University

   
7 November 2008

Seminar by RTPI President and Secretary General
How Can Planners Meet the Challenges of Climate Change?
Janet O’Neill
BSc DipTP MRTPI
The Growth Agenda in England – From "Predict & provide" to "Doom & despair"
Kelvin MacDonald
FRTPI FRSA

   
5 November 2008

Housing for the Middle and Lower Middle Income Groups; Effort for an Enabling Housing Policy Environment: Case Study Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mr. Chowdhury Md Zaber Sadeque

 
20 October 2008

China’s Urbanization: Planning, Cultural Conservation and Modernity
Jeffrey L. Soule, FAICP
Director
Outreach and International Program
American Planning Association

   

15 October 2008

Intercity Competition and Cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen: Theories, Realities and Policies
Professor Jianfa Shen
Professor of Department of Geography and Resource Management
Director of Urban and Regional Development Program, Hong Kong Institute of Asia--Pacific Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

   

8 October 2008

Presentations on Australia and the Netherlands
Ms. Sandy Sin Ting Chan / Mr. Kevin Ka Wing Lau / Mr. Striker Maren

17 September 2008

From Maps to GIS and VGE: A Discussion on the Evolution of the Geographic Language
Professor Hui Lin
Professor and Director
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong