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Join
World
Bank
President and keynote speaker James
Wolfensohn,
Dr. Kenichi Ohmae, policy makers, scholars, business people
and community developers from around the world for the Global
City-Regions Conference in Los Angeles on October 21 -
23, 1999. Hosted by the UCLA
School of Public Policy and Social Research, the conference
will provide a unique forum for three days of intensive dialogue
on global city-regions, the motors of an increasingly integrated
world economy and the loci of many new economic and social
problems.
With
populations that exceed 10 million, at least 20 of the world's
city-regions are now home to more people than many small countries.
Approximately 300 city-regions claim populations that exceed
1 million. The complex internal structure and external relationships
of these city-regions present some of the most serious challenges
to researchers and policy makers as we enter the 21st century.
The intertwined dynamics of globalization and accelerated
urban growth have made traditional planning and policy approaches
increasingly problematical, yet more relevant strategies remain
undefined. New ways of thinking about these dynamics and new
policies to harness their benefits and control their negative
effects are imperative.
The
Global City-Regions Conference will provide the opportunity
to participate in a free-ranging dialogue between scholars,
policy makers and practitioners on vital policy
questions in four critical areas: economic development,
social welfare, the environmental consequences of urbanization,
and governance. Infrastructure and technology issues will
be addressed in each of these four areas, which will be explored
through a mix of plenary lectures, presentation of papers
and associated discussions, round-tables, and workshops organized
by practitioners and community developers.
Please
join us for what will be a stimulating and rewarding experience.
The proceedings of this conference will be published in book
form by Oxford University Press.
If your foundation, institution, or firm is interested in
helping to sponsor this conference, please contact the Conference
Coordinator, Dr. Nga Scott, telephone: 1+(310) 825-8682; fax:
1+(310) 206-5773;
e-mail: nscott@ucla.edu.
Global City-Regions Conference
UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research
3250 Public Policy Building
Box 951656
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
Tel: 1 + (310) 794-5477
Fax: 1 + (310) 267-0282
Email: globalcityregions@sppsr.ucla.edu
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