Conference programme

Wednesday 16 November - Day 1

08:00 — 08:30 Registration and coffee

08:30 — 09:00 Welcome

Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society
Tony Travers, Director, LSE London, London School of Economics
John P. Burns, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences; Chair Professor, Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies; Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, London School of Economics

09:00 — 10:30 The politics of urban health

Chair:
Detlev Ganten, President, World Health Summit; Chairman of the Board, Charité Foundation, Berlin

Morning keynote

Designing health and well-being in Hong Kong

York Y. N. Chow, Secretary for Food and Health, Hong Kong Government

Presentations

Rebalancing London

Stephen O’Brien, Chair, Barts and London NHS Trust (National Health Service), London

From secretary of health to city mayor: lessons from Chile

Luis Gonzalo Navarrete Muñoz, Mayor, Lo Prado, Santiago del Chile; former Vice Secretary for Health, Chile

Open discussion

10:30 — 11:30 Understanding health in cities

Chair:
Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN HABITAT, Nairobi; Mayor, Barcelona 1997-2006

Presentations

Cities, population health and health care systems: New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong

Victor G. Rodwin, Director, World Cities Project; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University

Well-being in African cities

Catherine Kyobutungi, Head, Health Systems and Challenges, African Population & Health Research Center

Urban governance for health equity

Jason Corburn, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Open discussion

11:30 — 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 — 13:30 Measuring quality of life

Chair:
Christine K. W. Loh, Chief Executive, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong

Opening statement

Social equity and quality of life

Richard Sennett, School Professor of Social and Cultural Theory emeritus, London School of Economics; University Professor of the Humanities, New York University

Reflections

The infrastructure of urban well-being in an unequal urban world

Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN Habitat, Nairobi; Mayor, Barcelona, 1997-2006

Quality of life in Chinese cities

Xuejin Zuo, Director, Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Measuring happiness in Hong Kong

Lok Sang Ho, Professor of Economics; Director, Centre for Public Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Economic development and well-being: trends and transitions in Asia

Athar Hussain, Director, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics

Subjective well-being and the city

Philip Morrison, Professor of Human Geography, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington

Panel discussion

13:30 — 14:30 Lunch

14:30 — 15:50 Space and design

Chair:
Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, Cape Town

Presentations

Linking the physical to the social

Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies; Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, London School of Economics

Hong Kong as an urban experiment: the density question

Anthony G. O. Yeh, Chair Professor; Head, Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong

Age and public space in Hong Kong

Jackie Y. C. Kwok, Associate Professor, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Planning ahead of urbanisation: lessons from Mozambique

Jørgen Eskemose Andersen, Associate Professor; Head, Department of Human Settlements, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen

Open discussion

15:50 — 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 — 17:40 Designing for density

Chair:
David P. Y. Lung, Professor; Dean, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong; Chairman, Environmental Campaign Committee, HKSAR

Presentations

Hyper-density as practice

Reinier de Graaf, Partner, OMA; Director, AMO, Rotterdam

Integrating design and well-being

Elizabeth Burton, Director, Wellbeing in Sustainable Environments Research Unit, University of Warwick

Unsettling high-density development in Hong Kong

Wing Shing Tang, Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

Density and crime

Winy Maas, Partner, MVRDV, Rotterdam; Professor of Architecture, University of Delft

Open discussion

17:40 Evening keynote

Beyond inequality: emerging logics of expulsion

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology; Co-Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York

Thursday 17 November - Day 2

08:00 — 08:30 Registration and coffee

08:30 — 10:00 Planning for city change

Chair:
John P. Burns, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences; Chair Professor, Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong

Morning keynote

Responding to global challenges in Hong Kong

Carrie Lam, Secretary for Development, Hong Kong Government

Presentations

Can the London 2012 Olympics make East London healthier?

Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies; Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, London School of Economics

Housing China’s urban dwellers: shaping cities in the 21st century

Shi Wang, Chairman, China Vanke Co., Shenzhen; Executive Manager, China Real Estate Association

Open discussion

10:00 — 11:15 Mobility and urban well-being

Chair:
Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies; Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, London School of Economics

Presentations

Transport equity; Istanbul, São Paulo and Mumbai

Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age, London School of Economics

Planning for quality living in Hong Kong

Jimmy C. F. Leung, Director, Planning Department, Hong Kong Government

Road traffic accidents in Indian cities

Geetam Tiwari, MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning, CED/TRIPP, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi

Open discussion

11:15 — 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 — 12:45 Urban density and health

Chair:
Jean Woo, Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chief of Service, Medicine and Geriatric Unit, Sha Tin Hospital, Hong Kong

Presentations

Urban density, overcrowding and health

Gora Mboup, Chief, Global Urban Observatory, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Nairobi

Investigating health and well-being in Cape Town

Warren Smit, Researcher and Co-Coordinator, Healthy Cities Lab, African Centre for Cities, Cape Town

Density and equality of public health services in Shanghai

Yuan Ren, Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai

Searching for healthy places in compact urban space: the case of Chongqing

Tianqi Huang, Professor, Chongqing University

Open discussion

12:45 — 13:45 Lunch

13:45 — 15:00 Urban density and health (continued)

Chair:
Xiangming Chen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and International Studies; Dean and Director, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College, Hartford

Panel discussion

Presentations

Social isolation and suicide

Paul S. F. Yip, Professor of Social Work and Social Administration; Founding Director, Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, University of Hong Kong

Changing urban lifestyles and health in Singapore

Kee Seng Chia, Professor and Dean-Designate, School of Public Health; Director, Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore

Neighbourhood matters: exploring spatial patterns in older people’s health in Hong Kong

Jean Woo, Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chief of Service, Medicine and Geriatric Unit, Sha Tin Hospital, Hong Kong

Stress and the city

Mazda Adli, Executive Director, World Health Summit; Director, Mood Disorders Research Group; Senior Physician, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin

15:00 — 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 — 17:20 Mapping inequalities

Chair:
Tony Travers, Director, LSE London, London School of Economics

Afternoon keynote

The social determinants of health and health equity in cities

Sharon Friel, Professor of Health Equity, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra & Chair, Global Action for Health Equity Network

Presentations

Urban Africa: a fragmented landscape

Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities, Cape Town

Poverty and Inequality in Hong Kong

Lai Shan Sze, Director, Society for Community Organization, Hong Kong

Health inequalities in India’s cities

Siddharth R. Agarwal, Director, Urban Health Resource Centre, New Delhi

Challenges of inclusion

Richard Sennett, School Professor of Social and Cultural Theory emeritus, London School of Economics; University Professor of the Humanities, New York University

Open discussion

17:20 — 17:40 Evening keynote

Governing the healthy city

Christine K. W. Loh, Chief Executive, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong

17:40 — 17:45 Closing remarks

Wolfgang Nowak, Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society
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