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\n<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nProgramme<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n12th<\/sup>
\nMay, 2011<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n9:00 – 9:15 Registration<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n9:15 – 9:25 Welcoming Ceremony<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bernie OWEN, Head, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Setting the Scene; Many Facets of Urban
\nUtopianism, the West and the non-West<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Toshio MIZUUCHI, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n9:25 – 10:05 Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong
\nKong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n “Many Facets of Urban Utopianism when Lefebvre Meets the East
\nNowadays, with the Example of the Wedding Card Street Movement in Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n10:05 – 10:20 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Role of Art: Fantasy or Cultural
\nMaterialism<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Michelle Tsung Yi HUANG, Department of Geography,
\nNational Taiwan University<\/span><\/p>\n10:20 – 11:00 Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies,
\nKorea University<\/span><\/p>\n “In defense of utopian thinking”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n11:00 – 11:40 Stuart CHRISTIE, Department of English Language
\nand Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University<\/span><\/p>\n “‘Country Writing’: Reading the Limits of Raymond Williams The Country and the City<\/i> in the Chinese
\ncontext”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n11:40 – 1:10 Lunch<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Role of Urban (1): The
\nPrevalence of Differences<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research, University
\nof Helsinki<\/span><\/p>\n1:10 – 1:50 Angela STIENEN,
\nPedagogical University of Berne<\/span><\/p>\n “Building Utopia: Pedagogy and the Re-Signification of the City in
\nMedellin, Colombia”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n1:50 – 2:30 Solomon Benjamin<\/span>,
\nManipal School of Architecture and Planning<\/span><\/p>\n “Urban Utopianism: Some thoughts from the Imperfect City”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n2:30 – 2:45 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Role of Science (1): The
\nInvocation of Spatial Metaphors<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Uwe Altrock<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel<\/span><\/p>\n2:45 – 3:25 Anne HAILA, Department of Social Research,
\nUniversity of Helsinki<\/span><\/p>\n “A Perfectly Just City or Reducing Injustice”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n3:25 – 4:05 “A Utopia for the Bay Area of the Pearl River
\nEstuary: The Spatial Metaphor of Planning Concepts”<\/span><\/p>\n Wing-Shing TANG, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist
\nUniversity, and Joanna Wai-Ying LEE, Department of Geography and Resource
\nManagement and The Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management, The
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n4:05 – 4:20 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Role of Science (2):
\nDiversity and Sustainability<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Mee Kam NG, Department of Urban Planning and Design,
\nThe University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n4:20 – 5:00 Uwe Altrock<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Urban Regeneration, Faculty of Planning, University of Kassel<\/span><\/p>\n “The Quest for Post-Modernist Urban Planning 50 Years After Jane
\nJacobs: Utopia, Background Music of Neoliberal Trends in a Post-Fordist World
\nor Reformist Reality?”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n5:00 – 5:40 Surajit CHAKRAVARTY, Urban Planning Department,
\nAlhosnu University<\/span><\/p>\n Sustainability in the Desert<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Role of
\nScience (3): The Interaction between the Inside and the Outside<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Solomon Benjamin<\/span>,
\nManipal School of Architecture and Planning<\/span><\/p>\n5:40 – 6:20 Bhuvaneswari RAMAN, French Institute of
\nPondicherry<\/span><\/p>\n “Countering Hegemonic Utopias: The Dialectics of Identity Politics:
\nAccumulation and the Production of Urban Space in Chennai, India”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n7:00 – 9:00 Field
\nTrip<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i>Society for Community Organization (SoCO)<\/span><\/p>\n “Hong Kong, Hong Kong, We Can Live a Better Life!: A Tour of
\nCubicles and Homeless”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n9:00 – 10:00 Dinner Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n13th<\/sup> May, 2011<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n The Role of Science (3): The
\nInteraction between the Inside and the Outside (Cont’d)<\/i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n9:00 – 9:40 Tianxin ZHANG, College of Architecture and
\nLandscape Architecture, Peking University<\/span><\/p>\n “A Current Western Image for the Future Chinese Cities?”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n9:40 – 9:45 Morning
\nBreak<\/i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Agent of Change: The State
\nor the Community<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Chair<\/u>: Cuz POTTER, Division of International Studies, Korea
\nUniversity<\/span><\/p>\n9:45 – 10:25 Hyun Bang Shin<\/span>,
\nDepartment of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and
\nPolitical Science<\/span><\/p>\n “Privatisation of ‘Public Interest’: State Power and Land Assembly
\nin East Asian Urbanisation”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n10:25 – 11:05 Jackie YC Kwok<\/span>,
\nSchool of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/span><\/p>\n “The Communitarian Trap: Some Observations in Hong Kong”<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n11:05 – 11:20 Tea Break<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n