Conference programme

Friday 8 July 2005

08:30 — 08:45 Opening Session

Welcome

Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank

Urban Age Project: The Story So Far

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE and Architectural Advisor to the Major of London

08:45 — 10:45 Shanghai/New York/London

Addressing Urban Change

Chairs:
Ricky Burdett, LSE and Xiangming Chen, University of Illinois

Shanghai

Shiling Zheng, Professor of Architecture, Tongji University

New York

Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance, New York 1

London

Anthony Mayer, Chief Executive, Greater London Authority

Power: Comparing Systems of Urban Governance

Gerald Frug, Professor of Law, Harvard University

Identity: The Meaning of Form in Three Cities

Deyan Sudjic, Dean, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Kingston University

Open Discussion

10:45 — 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 — 12:45 Labour Market and Work Place

How to Enhance Shanghai's Urban Economy?

Chairs:
Xuejin Zuo, SASS and Tony Travers, LSE

Urban Age So Far – Labour Market

Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, TU Hamburg-Harburg

Presentations

The Future Economic Profile of Shanghai

Qiyu Tu, Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Architectural Typologies of Shanghai’s New Economy

Frank Duffy, Principal, DEGW London

Responses

Zaiming Pu, Deputy Director, Commission for Reform and Development
Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago
Yuemin Ning, Professor of Urban Geography, East China Normal University
Xiangming Chen, Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning and Policy University of Illinois at Chicago
Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Dajian Zhu, Professor, Tongji and Harvard University

Open Discussion

12:45 — 14:15 Lunch

14:15 — 16:00 Mobility and Transport

Is Shanghai's Transport System Moving in the Right Direction?

Chairs:
Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu, Tongji University and Ricky Burdett, LSE

Urban Age So Far - Mobility

Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna

Presentations

Planning for Movement and People

Ximing Lu, Director, Shanghai City Comprehensive Transportation Planning Institute

Designing Spaces for Movement

Enrique Peñalosa, Former Mayor of Bogota

Responses

Xuejin Zuo, Executive Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE
Xiaohong Chen, Professor of Transport Planning, Tongji Univeristy
Hitoshi Ieda, Professor of Transport, University of Tokyo
Geetam Tiwari, Strategic Transport Advisor, City of Delhi
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Principal, Foreign Office Architects

Open Discussion

16:00 — 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 — 17:45 Debate

How do we Govern? The Theory and Praxis of Urban Models

Chairs:
Tony Travers, LSE and Shiling Zheng, Tongji University

Opening Statement

Andy Altman, CEO, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, Washington D.C. and Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005

Panel Discussion

Zhiping Tang, Deputy Director, Shanghai Bureau for Urban Planning and Management
Xuejin Zuo, Executive Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Bruce Katz, Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Wang Shi, Chairman, China Vanke Co Ltd.
Anthony Mayer, Chief Executive, Greater London Authority
Carl Weisbrod, President, New York Downtown Alliance, New York

Open Discussion

Saturday 9 July 2005

10:00 — 11:45 Public Life and Urban Spaces

How Can Shanghai's Residents Keep Up With the City's Transformation?

Chairs:
Xizhe Peng, Fudan University and Ricky Burdett, LSE

Urban Age So Far – Public Life

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne

Presentations

Quality of Life and Spatial Distribution of Migrants in Shanghai

Guixin Wang, Professor of Population Research, Fudan University

Society and Urban Space: Observations on Shanghai

Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and MIT

Responses

Hanlong Lu, Professor of Social Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Xizhe Peng, Dean, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University
Linchu Zhu, Deputy Director, Shanghai Centre for Research and Development
David Adjaye, Principal, Adjaye Associates
Yongyi Lu, Professor, Tongji University

Open Discussion

11:45 — 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 — 13:30 Housing and Urban Neighbourhoods

Does More Personal Living Space Lead to Urban Sprawl in Shanghai?

Chairs:
Yung Ho Chang, Beijing and Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution

Searching for Space

Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE

Presentations

Designing the City: Lessons from Hyper-Growth

Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu, Dean and Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Shanghai: Speculations on the Model

Rem Koolhaas, Principal, Office of Metropolitan Architecture

Responses

Jiang Wu, Vice Director, Planning Bureau Shanghai
Quingyun Ma, Principal, MADA Architects Shanghai
Johannes Dell, Partner, Albert Speer & Partner Shanghai
Yue Wu, Chief Planner, Bureau of Development and Planning of Pudong District, Shanghai
Eric Parry, Principal, Eric Parry Architects London

Open Discussion

13:30 — 14:30 Lunch

14:30 — 16:00 Debate

Cityness and the Urban Age

Chair:
Guanzen Zhang, Tongji University and Deyan Sudjic, Kingston University

Opening Statement

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Political Economy, LSE and University of Chicago

Urbanism that Does Not Stop at the City Edges

Quingyun Ma, Principal, MADA Architects Shanghai

Panel Discussion

Jiang Wu, Vice Director, Planning Bureau Shanghai
Alejandro Zaera Polo, Joint Director, Foreign Office Architects
Xizhe Peng, Dean, Fudan University School of Social Policy and Development
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogota
Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Beijing
Rem Koolhaas, Principal, Office of Metropolitan Architecture
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, LSE and MIT

16:00 — 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 — 17:15 Debate

Shanghai - The Speed and the Friction

Chairs:
Jiang Wu, Shanghai Planning Bureau and Ricky Burdett, LSE

Contributions

Zhang Xin, Joint CEO, Soho China, Beijing
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Director, Center for Urban Studies, Sorbonne
Jinhai Zhu, Executive Deputy Director, Institute of Economics, Shanghai Commission on Reform and Development
Hermann Knoflacher, Professor of Transport Planning, TU Vienna

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic, Dean of the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Kingston University
Wang Shi, Chairman, China Vanke Co Ltd.
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, TU Hamburg-Harburg

17:15 — 18:00 Conclusions

Overview

Andy Altman, CEO, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, Washington D.C. and Planning Director Washington D.C. 2000 to 2005
Xiangming Chen, Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, LSE

Acknowledgements

Wolfgang Nowak, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, LSE