CPN China Week 2008
July 14-19, 2008
Beijing/Chengdu
The CPN China Week 2008
has successfully concluded in Beijing on July 19, 2008. Thank you again
for your great support that makes the CPN China Week possible.
Media coverage:
Letter of support and statement to China Planning Network (CPN):
- United Nations Under-Secretary-General Mr. John Holmes (detail) (pdf)
- MIT President Susan Hockfield (detail) (pdf)
- MIT Chancellor Phillip Clay (video)
- Tsinghua University Vice President YUAN Si (detail) (pdf)
CPN Commissioners' Remarks:
- CPN China Week Opening Ceremony (detail)
- CPN City Resilience Roundtable (detail)
- CPN Transport Conference and China Week Conclustion (detail)
- CPN Urban Travel Ranking System and CPN Whitepaper: State of Urban Transport in China (announcement)
CPN China Week 2008 Conferences:
The CPN China Week 2008
is the 5th year continuation of CPN¡¯s effort to fuse western knowledge
on urban development with China¡¯s unprecedented experience. CPN China Week 2008 will be held in Beijing on July 14-19, including:
- CPN
Urban Housing Conference
2008....................................................................................July
14-15 (detail)
- CPN World Planning School Open House................................................................................July 15 (detail)
- CPN Cross-Cultural Education Roundtable.............................................................................July 15 (detail)
- CPN City Resilience Roundtable: Rebuilding and Restoration After Sichuan Earthquake........July 16 (detail)
- CPN Sichuan Field Trip and Chengdu Forum...........................................................................July 17-18 (detail)
- CPN
Urban Transport Congress
2008....................................................................................July
19 (detail)
Conference Summary
We
are working on the summary of the CPN 2008 conferences and seminars.
All presentations, papers, videos, interviews will be published at this
website, free access to all. We would like to request
1) each
session chair to summarize your session in 1~2 pages, which we will
publish together with all the papers and ppts
2) all speakers to send us your comments and suggestions, both in terms
of the contents and the format of the conferences (feedback form)
3) if you have made any update or revision to your presentations and
papers, please send us the latest version, we are compiling them and
will publish all online.
Logistics:
Conference website and registration
The official conference website is http://ChinaPlanningNetwork.org
Please register for the 2008 CPN China Week at: http://chinaplanningnetwork.org/english/Registration.htm
Conference venue and hotel
The conference will be held in Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing, China.
The guest hotel is Wenjin Hotel, which is 10 minutes walk away from
Tsinghua Science Park.
Wenjin Hotel
Tsinghua Science Park, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Tel: +86-10-62525566
http://www.wenjin.com.cn
Conference languages
English and Chinese are both official languages in the conference. We
will provide simultaneous translation for all the presentations.
Please visit here for more details on the CPN China Week logistics.
Conference Speakers
The
China Planning Network has confirmed so far 47 leading scholars and
professionals to speak in CPN China Week 2008. Bios of the invited
speakers are available here.
- Tridib
Banerjee, Professor and James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional
Planning, former vice dean of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and
Development, University of South California
- Alain Bertaud, independent consultant, former Principal Urban Planner, World Bank
- Rachel Bratt, Professor and Former Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
- Salvano Briceno, Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, United Nations
- Xavier Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, MIT, Former
Acting Assistant Secretary, U.S. HUD
- Robert B. Cervero, Chair and Professor of City and Regional Planning, Department
of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
- Yung-Ho Chang, Professor and Head, Department of Architecture, MIT
- Wenzhen Chen, Assistant Professor, Tongji University
- Bernard Cohen, Secretary of Transportation, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Randall Crane, Acting Director and Professor of Urban Planning, Institute of
Transportation Studies, UCLA
- Joseph
Ferreira, Joseph Ferreira Jr, Professor of Urban Planning and
Operations Research, Head of UIS, MIT, Former President of the Urban
and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
- Steven
French, Director of Center for Geographic Information Systems,
Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Peter Fong, Director of EMBA & Executive Programmes, Faculty of Business & Economics, the University of Hong Kong
- Ralph
Gakenheimer, Professor of Urban Planning, MIT, Chair, International
Scientific Committee of CODATU (Collaborative on Urban Transport
Improvement in the Developing World)
- Piper Gaubatz, Associate Professor, Program Head for Geography, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
- Lawrence Hannah, Former Lead Economist, World Bank
- Yoshitsugu
Hayashi, Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya
University. Chair, Scientific Committee of WCTRS. Member, Science
Council of Japan
- Haruo Hayashi, Professor,
Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University
- Michael
Hibbard, President, ACSP, Professor and Director, Institute for Policy
Research and Innovation (IPRI), University of Oregon
- Ed Huang, PhD, AICP, CGBP, CEI, Senior Planner - Downtown Region, CRA/LA
- Ede
Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Sector Manager, China and Mongolia Sustainable
Development Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, the World Bank
- Martin de Jong, Associate professor of public management, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of TPM
- Fengmin Kan, Senior Coordinator, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, United Nations
- Bohumil Kasal, Hankin Chair of Residential Building Construction, Professor
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Architectural Engineering,
Director of Research, Pennsylvania Housing Research Center
- Klaus
Kunzmann, Jean Monnet professor for European Spatial Planning,? School
of Planning, Universit?t Dortmund, Germany, founder President of the
Association of European Schools of Planning
- Alven Lam, Director, Office of International Affairs, and Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. HUD
- Si Ming, Li, Chair Professor in Geography, Director of Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, Hong Kong University
- Yuki
Matsuoka, Officer in charge, Programme Officer, International Strategy
for Disaster Reduction, United Nations Hyogo Office
- Itsuki Nakabayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Robert Olshansky, Professor, Dept of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Hugo Priemus, Professor and Dean Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management,
Delft University of Technology , Netherlands
- Jingjing Qian, Director for China Sustainable Cities Project, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Nicolas Retsinas, Director, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, Former
U.S. HUD Assistant Secretary
- Bish Sanyal, Professor of Urban Development and Planning, Chair of Faculty, MIT
- Richard Stone, Asia news editor, Science Magazine
- Claudine Stuchell, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
- Lawrence Vale, Head and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
- Robert Vale, Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland,
- Honorary Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney
- Robin Visser, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Dave Wetzel, Vice-Chair of Board, Transport for London , Fellow, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Michael
Woo, Los Angeles Planning Commissioner, adjunct professor,? School of
Policy, Planning, and Development, University of South California
- Fulong
Wu, Professor of East Asian Planning and Development, Director of Urban
China Research International Network, Cardiff University, UK
- Xylina
Wu, Director, Business Development, Greater China,
Massachusetts International Office of Trade and Investment, the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Ming Zhang, Assistant Prof, University of Texas at Austin
- Liang Zhao, lecture, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Congress Media
We
are collaborating with a number of China's public medias, one of which
is www.QQ.com, the largest Internet portal and online community in
China. Five channels (QQ Science, QQ Education, QQ Housing, QQ
Transport, QQ Chengdu) will broadcast alive the full China Week
conferences to its 290 million active users.
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Along
with the CPN China Week, we are arranging a series of individual
meetings between the invited speakers and government officials,
academics and professionals from National Development and Reform
Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban/Rural Development (previously
Ministry of Construction), Sichuan Provincial and Chengdu Municipal
Governments, Chengdu Transport Commission, Chengdu Construction
Commission, Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Peking University
etc. We are doing the best to accommodate as many sessions as possible.
During the five years of CPN's
short but exciting history, we have been continuing our effort to fuse
Western knowledge of urban development and planning with China's
practice and to cultivate China's own discourse on urban development
and planning. This year's CPN China Week is bringing the Western
expertise and experience on urban development, housing, transport, and
disaster recovery to China's key decision makers as well as the widest
population.
Thank you
very much for your support to China Planning Network. Please feel free
to contact us if you have any questions and suggestions about the CPN
China Week. We look forward to meeting you in Beijing!
Best,
Ming Guo, Zhan Guo, Jinhua Zhao
Executive Commissioners
China Planning Network
http://www.ChinaPlanningNetwork.org
Faculty Advisor
Lawrence J. Vale, Head and Professor of Urban Design and Planning
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
About CPN
China Planning Network (CPN) was established in 2004 and has since
advanced from simply an academic interest group to become an
independent voice that affects the education, research, practice and
policies in China¡¯s urban development. CPN has moved forward on its
mission to systematically introduce western knowledge and experiences
to China and more importantly CPN has started pursuing its vision of
cultivating China's own discourse on urban development. As MIT
President Susan Hockfield wrote in 2006: "Through the efforts of the
China Planning Network, MIT and the Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, continue to lead the world to bring the advanced knowledge on
urban planning and development to bear on China's urbanization
challenges." ?
For information about CPN, please visit: http://chinaplanningnetwork.org/english/about.htm
Previous CPN conferences:
CPN Conference 2004: http://chinaplanningnetwork.org/english/cpn2004/
CPN Conference 2005: http://chinaplanningnetwork.org/english/cpn2005/
CPN Conference 2006: http://chinaplanningnetwork.org/english/cpn2006/
CPN Conference 2007: http://chinaurbantransport.com/english/Overview.htm
Donation Channels to the Sichuan Earthquake Relief
- MIT
Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) has setup a secure and
convenient online donation channel that accepts US dollar payment by
credit card. MIT is a 501(c)(3) institution, and your gift is
tax-deductible within the limitations of U.S. federal income tax laws.
The tax identification number is 04-2103594. http://cssa.mit.edu/
- Through Chinese Consulate General, NY, (Tax deduction not available)
Check Payable to:
Chinese Consulate General in New York
( Please make sure that you write down "Earthquake Relief Donation")
Address: Lei LIU, 520 12th Ave, New York, NY 10036.
- Through International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://donate.ifrc.org/
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