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2015/12/03-05 The Workshop on High-density development and Social Justice in Hong Kong

■ Objectives

　　Since its identification as one of the variables defining an urban community by Louis Wirth in his renowned treatise Urbanism as a Way of Life, density of the settlement has occupied a prominent position in urban studies in the West. Yet, the literature of high-density is found wanting as its emphasis was put on the technical at the expense of the social, without highlighting the social and spatial processes of it. In reality, there are many power relations and social-spatial processes that have contributed to the production of high-density development. Some even argues that high-density is particularly a spatial process which produces and reproduces social injustice. More specifically, the under-privileged in the society is more vulnerable to the denser living environment, resulting that their everyday life is affected by the spatiality of high-density. Therefore, it is imperative to relate high-density with power-based and process-oriented social justice.

　　In this international workshop, scholars from across the world will present their latest research findings, contributing to the recent debates on high-density and social justice theoretically and empirically. Sessions cover a diversity of themes including regional and spatial variations in the representation of high-density development, high-density in East Asian Cities, Capitalist Cities and Socialist Cities, income gap, everyday life and so on.

■ General outline

〇Title: The Workshop on High-density development and Social Justice

〇Dates: 3-5 Dec, 2015

〇Place: Hong Kong Baptist University

〇Organized by: Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

〇Sponsors: Research Committee, Hong Kong Baptist University, Research Grant (HKBU 250012), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

〇Co-sponsors: Hong Kong Critical Geography Group, Globalisation and Social Justice across East Asia (LSK/14-15/P05), Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

■ Programme: 20151205.pdf

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2013/12/04-06 The Workshop On Social Justice and the City in Hong Kong

*UPDATED: Video Recordings are now available online. 



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The Workshop

On

Social Justice and the City

 

By

Department of Geography

Hong Kong Baptist University

 

On

4th - 6th December, 2013

 

At

AAB 1312

Academic and Administration Building

Baptist University Road Campus

Hong Kong Baptist University


Sponsor            Research Committee, Hong Kong Baptist University

Co-Sponsors:    Research Grant (250012),  Hong Kong Research Grants Council,  The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

                          Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

                          Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm University

                          HKBU Century Club

                          Hong Kong Critical Geography Group

                          Minor Programme in Social Justice and Equality*, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University (* subject to approval)

 

Programme

 

4th December, 2013

9:00 - 9:10         Registration

 

9:10 - 9:25        Welcoming Ceremony

 

                           Rick W.K. WONG, Vice President (R & D), Hong Kong Baptist University

 

                           Adrian BAILEY, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

9:25 - 9:30        Group Photo-taking

 

                           Understandings of Social Justice and the City: Empire & Revolution, Transtopia and Risk Society

                           Chair: Don MITCHELL, Department of Geography, Syracuse University

9:30 - 10:10       Stefan KIPFER, The Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

                           "Empire, 'City' and Revolution: Horizons for Social Justice"

 

10:10 - 10:50     Christina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim

                           "Transtopia and Transversal Urbanisms: Altered Challenges for Social Justice"

 

10:50 - 11:30     On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

                           "Questioning Social Justice in Hyper-Modernizing Transnational Urbanism: Contradictions of the (Global) World City in the Informational Age"

 

11:30 - 11:45     Tea Break

                          

                           Understandings of Social Justice and the City: Challenges from the Global South by the Subaltern and the Post-structuralist

                           Chair: Kwok-kin Fung, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

11:45 - 12:25     Nihal PERERA, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State University

                           "Social Justice the Subaltern: The Struggle in a Small Settlement in Bhubaneswar, India"

 

 

12:25 - 1:05       Solomon BENJAMIN, Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

                           "Everyday Occupancies and the Practice of Social Justice"

 

 

1:05 - 2:35         Lunch

 

                           Development Models as Sources of Injustice (1): 'State Mode of Production'?

                           Chair: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

2:35 - 3:15         Kam Wing CHAN, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle

                           "Right to the City and the Chinese Hukou System"

 

3:15 - 3:55         Tammy K.P. WONG, Urban Sociology, Singapore-ETH Centre, and Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

                           "Spatial Production of Injustice: Tangxia Town, Dongguan"

 

3:55 - 4:10         Tea Break

 

                           Development Models as Sources of Injustice (2): Democratic Movement as an Incubator?

                           Chair: Nihal PERERA, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State University

4:10 - 4:50         Murat ES, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, and Rolien S. HOYNG, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

                           "'Everywhere is Taksim': Reclaiming the Spaces and Times of Politics"

 

4:50 - 5:10         Eva HANSSON, Department of Political Science and the Forum of Asian Studies, Stockholm University

                           "A Tale of Two Cities: Inequality, Protests and State Reponses in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City"

 

5:10 - 5:25         Break

 

                           Rent Gap as a Propeller: In Memory of Neil Smith

                           Chair: Solomon BENJAMIN, Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

5:25 - 6:05         Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

                           "The Concept of Rent Gap Reconsidered"

 

6:05 - 6:45         Lisa Kim DAVIS, Department of Geography and Center for Korean Studies, University of California Los Angeles

                           "City Building and Social Justice"

 

7:30 - 9:30         Welcome Dinner

 

 

5th December, 2013

                           Socio-environmental Justice

                           Chair: Eva HANSSON, Department of Political Science and the Forum of Asian Studies, Stockholm University

9:00 - 9:40         Garth MYERS, Urban Studies Program, Trinity College Hartford

                           "Seeking Socio-environmental and Spatial Justice in African Cities"

 

9:40 - 10:20       Masato MORI, Faculty of Humanities, Mie University

                           "(In)mobility and Citizenship: Social Injustice in the Cities after the Disaster of Fukushima in Japan"

 

10:20 - 10:35     Tea Break

 

                           Development Models as Sources of Injustice (3): Being Old is Insane?

                           Chair: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

10:35 - 11:15     Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic

                           "Struggle for the right to Life in the City: Appropriation of Urban Space by Older People in Hong Kong"

 

                           Dialectics of Spatial Injustice: High-density Development and Everyday Politics

                           Chair: Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University

11:15 - 11:55     Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

                           "Spatiality of (In)justice in High-density Development in Hong Kong"

 

11:55 - 12:35     Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

                           "The Production of Spatial (In)justice in Indian Cities: Spatial Claims and the Right to the City Agenda"

 

 

12:35 - 2:05       Lunch

 

                           Spatial Management (1): The political action and the Aged

                           Chair: Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2:05 - 2:45         Lynn A. STAEHELI, Department of Geography, Durham University, and Kafui ATTOH, Murphy Institute for Labor Studies, City University of New York

                           "Whose City? What Politics? Contentious and Non-contentious Spaces on Colorado's Front Range"

 

2:45 - 3:25         Geerhardt KORNATOWSKI and Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

                           "Social Mixing without 'Stealth Gentrification'? A Case Study on Guesthouses for Long-term International Visitors in North Nishinari, Osaka"

 

3:25 - 3:40         Tea Break

 

                           Spatial Management (2): Business Model Vs Regeneration Projects

                           Chair: Christina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim

3:40 - 4:20         Tomonaga HORIGUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

                           "The Incentive and Commitment of Stakeholders in the Business at Base of the Pyramid - A Structural Analysis and Verification by Accra City, Ghana"

 

4:20 - 5:00         Young A. LEE, Department of Geography Education, Daegu University

                           "The Exclusion of Residents from Neighbourhood Regeneration Projects"

 

5:00 - 5:15         Break

 

                           Struggles over Space (1):  University and Dock

                           Chair: Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

5:15 - 5:55         Don MITCHELL, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, Kafui ATTOH, Murphy Institute for Labor Studies, City University of New York, and Lynn STAEHELI, Department of Geography, Durham University

                           "Social Justice and the Sausage Factory: Struggles in and over the University in the US and UK"

                          

5:55 - 6:35         Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University

                           "Rebel City Contesting Decontextualized Capitalism: Urban Contentions and Dock Workers' Strike in Hong Kong, 2013"

 

7:30 - 9:30         Dinner Break

 

 

 

6th December, 2013

                           Struggle over Space (2); Mobility and Street

                           Chair: Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

8:45 - 9:25         C. RAMACHANDRAIAH, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Begumpet

                           "Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities: Contestations on Equity and Exclusion"

 

9:25 - 10:05       Yannan DING, Department of Urban Planning, Hefei University of Technology

                           "Reappropriate through Occupation: The Case of Contingent Parking in the Street of Chinese Cities "

 

10:05 - 10:20     Tea Break

 

10:20 - 11:00     Right to Redevelop (1): The Working Class and the Ordinary

                           Chair: Stefan KIPFER, The Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

                           Chen YANG, The School of Urban Planning. Tongji University

                           "The Discourse of Social Justice in a Working-class Neighbourhood: The Case of Caoyang in Shanghai"

                          

11:00 - 11:40     Shannon WALSH, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

                           "Rights and Wrongs: The Contradictions of Urban Renewal in a Johannesburg Neighourhood"

 

11:40 - 12:20     King-lai WONG and Kwok-kin FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

                           "Exploration of the Institutional Impact on Urban Renewal: A Case of Hong Kong"

 

12:20 - 1:10       Quick Lunch

                               

                           Right to Redevelop (2): Cultural Vs Commercial Regeneration

                           Chair: Garth MYERS, Urban Studies Program, Trinity College Hartford

1:10 - 1:50         Yun-Chung CHEN, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Mirana May SZETO, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong

                           "Right to the City: Preserving Our Neighbourhood Movement in Hong Kong"

 

1:50 - 2:30         Johannes KIENER, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

                           "Between Commercial Gentrification and Urban Regeneration: The Case of the Nakazaki Neighbourhood in Osaka"

 

                           Roundtable Discussion

2:30 - 3:00         Chair: Wing-Shing TANG

 

3:30 - 7:00         Field Trip: Encountering Injustice on the Ground

 

7:30 - 9:30         Farewell Dinner

 

 

2013/02/19-22 East Asian Inclusive City Network

From Vulnerable to Inclusive Cities: 
Introduction for Participants
(プログラムと梗概は、下記にPDFで日本語、韓国語、中国語でアップしています)
Schedule and proceedings can be downloaded as PDF files in each Japanese, Korean, and Chinese

A Workshop for Building an 
East Asian Inclusive City Network
Hosted by
Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
in collaboration with the Japanese Academy for Housing Well-being, Inclusive City Network Japan (general incorporated association), Korean Community Research Institute
sponsored by Urban Research Plaza
on Feb. 19 (Wed.) - Feb. 22 (Fri.), 2013
at Nishinari Plaza & other areas in Osaka

Objective
In recent years the concentration of poverty in cities has reached a new degree. This phenomenon of 'urbanization of poverty' is receiving great attention from policy makers as well as academic researchers. The focus of this workshop is on how to address the demands of socially disadvantaged groups in vulnerable urban areas, and how to regenerate neighbourhoods which are facing social exclusion through urban (re)development. In the fight against exclusion, the voices of disadvantaged groups and residents of disadvantaged neighbourhoods cannot be overlooked. 
As the forces of globalization are pushing for economic and industrial restructuring new problems emerge. In East Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China (including Hong Kong SAR). vulnerable people face more and more difficulties in obtaining stable employment, entitlements including health care, education, housing, and more broadly citizenship. 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 this network. 

Venue
Nishinari Plaza & other areas in Osaka, Japan

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 Osaka, the number of participants is flexible).

Language
This workshop will be conducted in the local language, Japanese, Korean, Chinese via one-by-one interpretation (not simultaneous).

Program: <Chinese> <Japanese> <Korean>

Workshop 1: Understanding and Sharing Experiences of Practices for the Vulnerable (Feb 20)

This session consists of field trips and a free discussion for understanding each country's context regarding government & city policy implementation and practices by NGOs, which can be included in the following sub-themes: (1) homeless people, (2) young working poor, (3) unemployed people, (4) ethnic residents, (5) other vulnerable person;

Workshop 2: Understanding and Sharing Experiences of Practices for the Housing

Each country will present two related topics, one on the policy system from the government side (public housing system & related services, etc.), and the other on practices from NGOs for the housing-poor using the private rental sector (resources, support organization & related services). For each topic 5 minutes for presentation will be available. 

Workshop 3: Understanding and Sharing Experiences of Practices for the Community

(1) Alternative Urban Regeneration for Socially Disadvantaged Areas, (2) Training Programs for Community Workers & Organization Operations for Vulnerable People in Disadvantaged Areas.


Proceedings: <Chinese> <Japanese> <Korean>


Output: <Japanese> (with power point materials for each presentation) 

2012/05/15-17 The International Workshop on Urban Utopianism

The International Workshop

 On

Urban Utopianism


cum

China-India Forum

On

Beyond Gentrification

 

By


Department of Geography

Hong Kong Baptist University


In Collaboration with


Urban Research Plaza

Osaka City University

 

On


15th - 17th  May, 2012

 

At


WLB 208

Lam Woo International Conference Centre

Shaw Campus

Hong Kong Baptist University

 

 

Co-Sponsors: Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University

Research Grant (HKBU 244808),  Hong Kong Research Grants Council,  The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Hong Kong Critical Geography Group

 

 

Hong Kong

24th April, 2012

 

Programme

 

15th May, 2012

9:00 - 9:10 Registration

 

9:10 - 9:15 Welcoming Ceremony

 

Adrian BAILEY, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Urban Utopianism

Understanding Urban Utopianism in the World

Chair: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

9:15 - 9:45 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

"Many Facets of Urban Utopianism"

 

9:45 - 10:15 On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

"Eco-utopian Urbanism and East-Asia's Glocalization in the Informational Age: Choreography of New Media-enhances Human Rights Movements in Urban Transformation"

 

10:15 - 10:30 Tea Break

 

Utopia in the Politics of Differences

Chair: On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

10:30 - 11:00 Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne

"Building Utopia? Pedagogy and the Right to the City in Latin America"

 

11:00 - 11:30 Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

"Urban Utopianism: Some Thoughts from the Imperfect City"

 

11:30 - 12:00 Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry

"Utopian Ideals and the Production of Urban Space: The Case of Chennai Metropolis, India"

 

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

 

 

The Role of Science (1): Spatial Metaphors or Participatory Action Method

Chair: Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry

1:30 - 2:00 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

"A Utopia for the Bay Area of the Pearl River Estuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning Concepts"

 

2:00 - 2:30 Tianxin ZHANG, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University

"A Current Western Image for the Future Chinese Cities?"

 

2:30 - 3:00 Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"We Do Not Want Utopia. We Only Want Better Living Environment"

 

3:00 - 3:15 Tea Break

 

The Role of Science (2): Diversity and Sustainability

Chair: Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

3:15 - 3:45 Uwe Altrock, Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel

"The Quest for Post-Modernist Urban Planning 50 Years After Jane Jacobs: Utopia, Background Music of Neoliberal Trends in a Post-Fordist World or Reformist Reality?"

 

3:45 - 4:15 Surajit CHAKRAVARTY, Department of Urban Planning Department, Alhosn University

"Utopia, Sustainability and the Anxieties of Development in Abu Dhabi"

 

4:15 - 4:30 Tea Break

 

The Role of Community Capacity Building

Chair: Pelin, TAN, New Media Department, Kadir Has University

4:30 - 5:00 Young A. LEE, Geography Education Department, Daegu University

"How to Build Community Capacity in Urban Development Process"

 

5:00 - 5:30 Kwok-kin FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

"'Dialectical Utopianism' and Alternative Community Practice in Hong Kong"

 

6:00 - 8:00 Dinner Break

 

8:00 - 9:00 Field Trip

Hong Kong Critical Geography Group

"'Occupy Central', A Movement Not So Like 'Occupy Wall Street'"

 

 

16th May, 2012

Activism: Negotiating Culture

Chair: Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

9:00 - 9:30 Pelin, TAN, New Media Department, Kadir Has University

"Ways of Common-ing and Imagination of Counter-urban Pracatices"

 

9:30 - 10:00 Ran MA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"The Dazhalan Project and Disappearing Beijing: Negotiating Urban Regeneration in Mainland China"

 

10:00 - 10:15 Tea Break

 

Alternative Organisations (1): Praxis and Socio-economic Restructuring

Chair: Shenglin Elijah CHANG, The New Ruralism Research and Development Center, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

10:15 - 10:45 Christina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim

"Urban Utopias and Heterotopias: Theorising, Analyzing, and Evaluating the Praxeological "How?" of Urbanisation - Creative Power or Powerlessness of the Public in Barcelona/Spain"

10:45 - 11:15 Shinya KITAGAWA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"Searching for an Alternative Social Space in the City: Some Aspects of Spatial Practices of a Social Center 'Leoncavallo' in Milan"

 

11:15 - 11:45 Tomonaga HORIGUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"The Change of the District Resulting from Formation and Collapse of Industrial Accumulation: A Case Study of the East Germany City"

11:45 - 1:15 Lunch

Alternative Organisations (2): Housing for the 'Deviants', the Poor and the Rich

Chair: Kwok-kin FUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

1:15 - 1:45 Yingfang CHEN, Department of Public Economics and Social Policy, Jiaotong University

"Everyday Life of Migrant Population in Shanghai"

 

1:45 - 2:15 Geerhardt KORNATOWSKI and Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"An Alternative Approach toward Inner City Regeneration and its Possibilities for a Practical Urban Utopianism"

 

2:15 - 2:45 Maren Godzik, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

"Discussing the Emergence of Alternative Housing in Japan"

 

2:45 - 3:15 Tea Break

 

Alternative Organisations (3): At the Fringe

Chair: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

3:15 - 3:45 Jin Yong WU, Ding Xiong XIAO, Ru Ci HUANG and Shenglin Elijah CHANG, The New Ruralism Research and Development Center, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

"The Hope of Hopeless Homes: Along the Riverside in New Taipei, Taiwan"

 

3:45 - 4:15 Yun-Chung CHEN, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University and Mirana May SZETO, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong

"Rebuilding an Eco-Village from the Ruin of Developmentalism: Making Utopia in Choi Yuen Village, Hong Kong"

 

4:15 - 4:30 Tea Break

 

Urban Utopianism in Art and Literature

Chair: Christina WEST, Economic Geography, University of Mannheim

4:30 - 5:00 Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

"Hope and Criticism in the Contemporary Southeast Asian Art"

 

5:00 - 5:30 Gordon GAMLIN, Department of Literature, Kobe National University

"Walls of Wisdom: Early Literary Accounts of Utopian Cities"

Roundtable Discussion

5:30 - 6:15 Chair: Wing-Shing TANG

 

6:30 - 9:00 Dinner

 

 

17th May, 2012

Beyond Gentrification

 

Possible Ways Ahead

Chair: Uwe Altrock, Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel

9:00 - 9:30 Wing-Shing Tang, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

"China-India Comparative Urban Research Beyond Zero-Point Epistemology: The Example of Gentrification"

 

9:30 - 10:00 Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

"Constituting Property: Some Thoughts to Take the Gentrification Narrative Forward"

 

10:00 - 10:30 Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry

"The Every Day Politics of Territorial Transformation & Property in Indian Cities"

 

 

10:30 - 10:45 Tea Break

 

Emphasis on Everyday Life

Chair: Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne

10: 45 - 11:15 Tak Chuen LUK, Visiting Professor, Centre of Design and Social Development, Yunnan University

"Gentrification and the Coping Strategies of Migrants: A Case Study of the Hyper-urban Renewal of Kunming City in the Second Great Transformation of Post-socialist China"

 

11:15 - 11:45 Megan BLAKE, Department of Geography, Sheffield University

"Rebuilding the Market Economy: Gentrification and the Values of Hong Kong's Wet Markets"

 

11:45 - 12:15 Rupali GUPTA and Prad SHETTY,

"After-life of Gentrification: Mumbai Stories"

 

12:15 - 12:45 Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Wing-Shing TANG

 

12:45 - 2:15 Lunch

 

 

Urban Utopianism

 

2:15 - 6:00 Field Trip (including Dinner)

The Concerned Group of Choi Yuen Village

"The New Choi Yuen Village as an Urban Utopia"

 

 

2011/05/12-14 Workshop on Urban Utopianism in Hong Kong


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The International Workshop

On

Urban Utopianism


By

Department of Geography

Hong Kong Baptist University

In Collaboration with

 Urban Research Plaza

Osaka City University


On

12th -14th  May, 2011

 At

NAB 211

Lam Woo International Conference Centre

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 Region

Hong Kong Critical Geography Group

  

Hong Kong

26th April, 2011

Proceedings: 2011HKWS.pdf

Programme

 

12th May, 2011

9:00 - 9:15 Registration

 

9:15 - 9:25 Welcoming Ceremony

 

Bernie OWEN, Head, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Setting the Scene; Many Facets of Urban Utopianism, the West and the non-West

Chair: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

9:25 - 10:05 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

"Many Facets of Urban Utopianism when Lefebvre Meets the East Nowadays, with the Example of the Wedding Card Street Movement in Hong Kong"

 

10:05 - 10:20 Tea Break

 

The Role of Art: Fantasy or Cultural Materialism

Chair: Michelle Tsung Yi HUANG, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University

10:20 - 11:00 Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies, Korea University

"In defense of utopian thinking"

 

11:00 - 11:40 Stuart CHRISTIE, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University

"'Country Writing': Reading the Limits of Raymond Williams The Country and the City in the Chinese context"

 

11:40 - 1:10 Lunch

 

The Role of Urban (1): The Prevalence of Differences

Chair: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

1:10 - 1:50 Angela STIENEN, Pedagogical University of Berne

"Building Utopia: Pedagogy and the Re-Signification of the City in Medellin, Colombia"

 

1:50 - 2:30 Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

"Urban Utopianism: Some thoughts from the Imperfect City"

 

2:30 - 2:45 Tea Break

 

The Role of Science (1): The Invocation of Spatial Metaphors

Chair: Uwe Altrock, Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel

2:45 - 3:25 Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki

"A Perfectly Just City or Reducing Injustice"

 

3:25 - 4:05 "A Utopia for the Bay Area of the Pearl River Estuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning Concepts"

Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource Management and The Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

4:05 - 4:20 Tea Break

 

The Role of Science (2): Diversity and Sustainability

Chair: Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

4:20 - 5:00 Uwe Altrock, Department of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel

"The Quest for Post-Modernist Urban Planning 50 Years After Jane Jacobs: Utopia, Background Music of Neoliberal Trends in a Post-Fordist World or Reformist Reality?"

 

5:00 - 5:40 Surajit CHAKRAVARTY, Urban Planning Department, Alhosnu University

Sustainability in the Desert

 

The Role of Science (3): The Interaction between the Inside and the Outside

Chair: Solomon Benjamin, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning

5:40 - 6:20 Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of Pondicherry

"Countering Hegemonic Utopias: The Dialectics of Identity Politics: Accumulation and the Production of Urban Space in Chennai, India"

 

7:00 - 9:00 Field Trip

Society for Community Organization (SoCO)

"Hong Kong, Hong Kong, We Can Live a Better Life!: A Tour of Cubicles and Homeless"

 

9:00 - 10:00 Dinner Break

 

13th May, 2011

The Role of Science (3): The Interaction between the Inside and the Outside (Cont'd)

9:00 - 9:40 Tianxin ZHANG, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University

"A Current Western Image for the Future Chinese Cities?"

 

9:40 - 9:45 Morning Break

 

The Agent of Change: The State or the Community

Chair: Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies, Korea University

9:45 - 10:25 Hyun Bang Shin, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

"Privatisation of 'Public Interest': State Power and Land Assembly in East Asian Urbanisation"

 

10:25 - 11:05 Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"The Communitarian Trap: Some Observations in Hong Kong"

 

11:05 - 11:20 Tea Break

 

The Role of Community Capacity Building

Chair: Hon Chu LEUNG, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University

11:20 - 12:00 Young A. LEE, Geography Education Department, Daegu University

"How to build community capacity in urban development process"

 

12:00 - 12:40 Kwok-kin FUNG, School of Continuing and Professional Education, City University of Hong Kong, and Suet-lin HUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

"'Dialectical Utopianism' and the Experience of a Community Development Project in the Tin Shui Wai North"

 

12:40 - 2:10 Lunch

 

Activism (1): Negotiating Identity

Chair: Jackie YC Kwok, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2:10 - 2:50 Iam-Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

"The Spatial Turn in Contemporary Social Movements in Hong Kong"

 

2:50 - 3:30 Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

"Red Memory, Green Hope: Citizen Mobilization against the Privatization of Thong-Nhat Park in Hanoi, Vietnam"

 

3:30 - 3:45 Tea Break

 

Activism (2): Negotiating Culture

Chair: Iam-Chong IP, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

3:45 - 4:25 Pelin, TAN, Program of Art, Technology and Culture, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts of Technology

"Possibilities of Counter-Cultural Urban Space in Istanbul"

 

4:25 - 5:05 Ran MA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"The Dazhalan Project and Disappearing Beijing: Negotiating Urban Regeneration in Mainland China"

 

5:05 - 5:15 Break

 

Activism (3): Encountering Hegemony

Chair: Liling HUANG, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

5:15 - 5:55 Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

"Whose Utopia? A Tale of Two Urban Regeneration Battles in Hong Kong and Taipei"

 

6:30 - 9:00 Welcome Dinner

 

14th May, 2011

Activism (4): The Role of Media

Chair: Hyun Bang Shin, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

9:00 - 9:40 On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

"Urban Utopianism and East-Asia's Glocalization in the Information Age: The New Media-enhances Human Rights Movements in Urban Transformation"

 

9:40 - 10:20 Chloe LAI, Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong

"The Politics of Journalism Objectivity in Post-Handover Hong Kong"

 

10:20 - 10:35 Tea Break

 

10:35 - 11:15 Alternative Organisations: Social Economy and Politics

Chair: Ngai PUN, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Terence YUEN and Pauline CHAN, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"Rediscovering Social Economy in Hong Kong - An Urban Utopian Project"

11:15 - 11:55 Shinya KITAGAWA, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"Search for an Alternative Social Space in the City: Some Aspects of Spatial Practices of a Social Center 'Leoncavallo' in Milan"

 

Alternative Practices (1): Housing for the Homeless

Chair: On-Kwok LAI, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University

11:55 - 12:35 Toshio MIZUUCHI and Geerhardt KORNATOWSKI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"An Alternative Approach toward Inner City Regeneration through Homeless Self-dependency Support"

 

12:35 - 2:05 Lunch

WLB 206

Alternative Practices (2): Housing for others

Chair: Kwok-kin FUNG, School of Continuing and Professional Education, City University of Hong Kong

2:05 - 2:45 Yinfang CHEN, Department of Sociology, East China Normal University

"Everyday Life of Migrant Population in Shanghai"

 

2:45 - 3:25 Maren Godzik, German Institute for Japanese Studies

"Discussing the Emergence of Alternative Housing in Japan"

 

3:25 - 3:40 Tea Break

 

Alternative Practices (3): Participatory or Faith

Chair: Suet-lin HUNG, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University

3:40 - 4:20 Jin Yong WU, Ding Xiong XIAO, Ru Ci HUANG and Shenglin Elijah CHANG, The New Ruralism Research and Development Center, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

"Leave Me Alone, I Live along the Riverside: Case Studies of the XiZhou Tribe Village and the 535 Shelter adjacent to the XinDian Rivers in Metropolitan Taipei, Taiwan"

 

4:20 - 5:00 Tatsuya SHIRAHASE, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

"Social Roles of Faith-Related Organizations in Homeless Support"

 

Roundtable Discussion

5:00 - 6:00 Chair:

 

6:30 - 9:00 Farewell Dinner

 

2009/05/07-09 The International Workshop On Urban Redevelopment in East Asian Cities

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)