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All
events will be held in Tom
Bradley International Hall on the UCLA
Campus unless otherwise stated. |
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Friday,
October 22 |
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9:00
- 10:15 AM
International Hall |
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Plenary
Session II
Chair:
Barbara
Nelson
(Dean, UCLA School of Public
Policy and Social Research)
Keynote Speaker:
Kenichi Ohmae
(International
business consultant and author, Tokyo, Japan)
"How Regions Can Prosper from Globalization"
Response:
Riccardo Petrella
(Université Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium; former Head of Unit, Forecasting and Assessment
in Science and Technology Program, European Commission) |
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10:15
- 10:45 AM
West Gallery |
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Coffee
Break |
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10:45
- 12:15 PM
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THREE
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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Room 1 |
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Panel
1:
Globalization and the world-wide mosaic of large city-regions
Chair:
Il SaKong
(Chairman and CEO, Institute for Global Economics, Seoul, South
Korea: and former Minister of Finance, Government of South Korea)
Speakers:
Saskia
Sassen
(Department
of Sociology, University of Chicago)
"The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier"
Mitchell Moss
(Taub Urban Research
Center, New York University, New York)
"The Role of Telecommunications and Transportation Technologies
in the Development of Global City-Regions"
John Friedmann
(Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los
Angeles )
"Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era"
Michael Douglass
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of
Hawaii, Manoa)
"Globalization and the Asian Crisis: Intercity
Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience" |
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Room 2 |
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Panel 2:
Social diversity and political conflict in global city-regions:
predicaments and opportunities
Chair:
Lucie
Cheng
(Department of Sociology,
University of California, Los Angeles)
Speakers:
Susan
Fainstein,
(Department of
Urban Planning, Rutgers University)
"Inequality in Global City-Regions"
Myron Orfield
(Minnesota House of Representatives, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
"The Social, Fiscal and Political Diversity of U.S. Suburbs
and the Potential for New Regional Policies and Politics"
Roger Waldinger
(Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
"The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions. Concept,
Patterns, Controversy"
Tim
Campbell
(The World Bank)
"Innovation and Governance Reforms in Large Cities in
Latin America and the Carribean"
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Workshop
1:
Governance issues in global city-regions
Organized by Josef Konvitz and Mario
Pezzini on behalf of the OECD
Chair:
Josef Konvitz
(Head of Division, Territorial Development Policies and Prospects,
OECD, Paris)
Presentations by:
John
Kasarda
(Director and Kenan Professor, Kenan Institute of Private
Enterprise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Governance Issues at the Regional
Level for Economic Development"
Caterina
Brancaleoni
(Head officer, Local Development and Negotiating Planning
Department, Emilia-Romagna Regional Government, Italy)
Brian Howe
(Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia; Centre for Public
Policy, University of Melbourne, Australia)
"Local Institutions and Democracy in Regeneration
Programs in Large Metropolitan Areas"
Greg Clark
(Managing Director, Greater London Enterprise, United Kingdom)
"The Specific Needs and Governance of Large Cities"
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12:30
-1:45 PM
International Hall |
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Lunch
Keynote
Speaker:
Michael Porter
(Harvard Business School, Harvard
University)
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2:00
- 3:30 PM
International Hall |
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Plenary
Session III
Chair:
Kathleen Connell
(Controller of the State of California)
Speakers:
Sir Peter Hall
(University College, London,
United Kingdom)
"Global City-Regions in the 21st Century"
Jens
Kramer Mikkelsen
(Mayor
of Copenhagen, Denmark; Member of the European Committee of
the Regions)
"Copenhagen-Malmö:
An Emerging Cross-Border Region"
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3:30
- 4:00 PM
West Gallery |
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Coffee
Break |
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THREE
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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Room 1 |
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Panel
3:
The competitive advantages
of large city-regions: local economic development dynamics and
policy in a globalizing world
Chair:
Allen Huie
(Managing Partner, Asian Strategic Partners, Hong Kong)
Speakers:
Roberto Camagni
(Politecnico di Milano; former head of the Department of Urban
Affairs, Presidency of Council of Ministers, Rome, Italy)
"Interactions between Economic Functions of the Global
City-Regions and Public Costs"
Thomas Courchene
(John
Deutsch Institute, Queen's University, Canada)
"Responding to the NAFTA Challenge: Ontario as a North American
Region State and Toronto as a Global City-Region"
Won-Bae Kim
(Korean Reaearch Institute, Seoul, South Korea)
"Asian Economic Crisis and Repositioning of Mega-CIty Regions:
The Case of the Seoul Mega-CIty Region"
Frank Sartor
(Mayor of Sydney, Australia) |
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Room 2 |
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Panel
4:
Environmental sustainability and services in global city-regions
Chair:
S. David Freeman
(General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
Speaker:
Theodore Panayotou
(Harvard Institute of
International Development, Harvard University)
"The Environmental Sustainability of Global City-Regions:
Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options"
Discussants:
Josef Konvitz
(Head
of Division, Territorial Development Policies and Prospects,
OECD, Paris)
Stephanie Pincetl
(Research Associate Professor of Geography and Coordinator
of the Sustainable Cities Program, University of Southern California)
J.R. De Shazo
(Department of Policy Studies, UCLA School of Public Policy
and Social Research) |
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Room 3 |
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Workshop
2:
Infrastructure financing and capital markets in global city-regions
Organized by Dana Weist (Senior Economist, East Asia
Urban Development Unit, The World Bank) on behalf of the
World Bank.
Chair:
Samir El Daher
(Financial
Advisor, Global Municipal Finance Thematic Group, The World
Bank)
Presentations by:
Pilar Solans
(Former Finance Director, City of Barcelona, Spain)
"Barcelona's Experience in Financing Infrastructure
for the Olympics and Beyond"
Douglas Webster
(Senior Urban Advisor, National Economic and Social Development
Board, Royal Thai Government and Stanford University's Asia/Pacific
Research Center)
"Urban Financing in East Asian Cities"
Andrés
Vasiliadis
(Director
of Public Finance Office, Secretaria de Hacienda, Gobierno
de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
"Buenos Aires' Experience in Restructuring Debt as a Way
of Restructuring the City's Budget"
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6:00
- 7:00 PM
Covel Commons
Grand Ballroom Terrace |
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Cocktails |
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7:00
PM
Covel Commons
Grand Ballroom |
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Conference
dinner
Introduction of Lucien Bouchard:
Allen J. Scott
(Chair of the Global City-Regions Conference Organizing Committee,
University of California, Los Angeles)
Keynote Speaker:
Lucien Bouchard
(Premier of Québec, Canada)
"Quebec in the New Global and Urban Century"
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