Better City, Better Life: The 4th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference

Tongji University, Shanghai, June 19-21, 2010

June 18

1:00 – 6:00 PM, Registration
6:00 – 7:30 PM, IACP Reception (sponsored by IACP, for all conference participants, Location: Wenyuan Lou inside Tongji Campus) (Will provide drinks and some snacks, no dinner.)

June 19

8:00 – noon, Plenary Session, keynote presentations

Keynote speakers:

"The Contributions of Physical Mobility to Efficiency and Equity in Global Metropolitan Centers" (abstract)
Martin Wachs
Director, RAND Transportation, Space, and Technology Program
Former Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley
TRB Chairman in 2000, the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board
(http://www.rand.org/about/people/w/wachs_martin.html)

Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
Columbia University
USA
http://www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/

"Urban and regional economic development in the age of globalization" (abstract)
Peter Taylor
Professor
Department of Geography
Loughborough University
United Kingdom
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/staff/gypjt/index.html

SHI Nan
Vice President & Secretary General, Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC)
Executive Chief Editor, CITY PLANNING REVIEW (CPR)
Senior Urban Planner, China Academy of Urban Planning & Design (CAUPD)
http://www.planning.org.cn

TANG Zilai
Chair and Professor
Department of Urban Planning
College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Tongji University
Shanghai, China

QIU Baoxin (To Be Confirmed)

Session Co-Chairs:

Zhong-Ren Peng
Chair of IACP Board, Chair and Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida

Wu Zhiqiang
Professor, Assistant to the President of Tongji University, and former Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Noon – 1:30: Lunch (San Hao Wu)

1:30 – 5:30 PM: parallel sessions

7:00 – 9:00 PM, Welcome Dinner (all conference participants, San Hao Wu)

June 20

8:30 – 10:00 AM, Parallel Sessions

10:30 – noon, Plenary Roundtable Panel

• Karen R. Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MAO Qizhi, Vice Dean for Urban Planning in Tsinghua University
• WU Zhiqiang, Professor, Assistant to the President of Tongji University, and former Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
• Cheryl Contant, President, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
• Zhong-Ren Peng, chair Department of Urban Planning, University of  Florida. Chair of IACP Board
  

Moderator:

• Richard LeGates, Professor, San Francisco State University, Secretary of International Association for China Planning
• PENG Zhengwei, Professor, Department of Urban Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Noon – 1:30 PM Lunch (San Hao Wu)

1:30 – 5:00 PM: Parallel Sessions

5:00 – 5:30 PM, Closing Remarks, Award Ceremony

June 21

Field Trip to the Shanghai Expo (http://en.expo2010.cn/)