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Program: Day 3
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  All events will be held in Tom Bradley International Hall on the UCLA Campus unless otherwise stated.
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  DAY 3   Saturday, October 23
9:00 - 10:15 AM
International Hall

Plenary Session IV

Chair:
Zev Yaroslavsky
(Third District Supervisor, Board of Supevisors, County of Los Angeles)

Speakers:
Eberhard Diepgen

(Mayor of Berlin, Germany)
"Berlin on the Threshold of the New Millenium--Opportunities and Challenges"


Cassio Taniguchi
(Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil)
"Sustainability and Quality of Life Issues in Curitiba, Brazil"

10:15 - 10:45 AM
West Gallery
Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 PM
. THREE PARALLEL SESSIONS
Breakout Room 1 . Panel 5:
Institution-building and governance issues in global city-regions

Chair:
Pietro Nivola
(Brookings Institution, Washington D.C)


Speaker:
Michael Keating
(European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
"Governing Cities and Regions Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age"

Doug Henton
(President, Collaborative Economics, Palo Alto, CA)
"An Innovation Region Takes its Next Step. Governance in the Global City-Region: Lessons from Silicon Valley"

Ketso Gordhan
(Chief Executive Officer, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, South Africa)

"Building Democracy and Sustainability from a Divided Past--The Johannesburg Story"
Breakout Room 2 .

Workshop 3:
Urban poverty and political participation


Organized by Geneviéve Domenach-Chich on behalf of UNESCO
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Chair:
Geneviéve Domenach-Chich
(Chief, Cities and Human Habitat Unit, UNESCO)

Speakers:
Mohamed Soumaré
(Program Coordinator, ENDA Tiers-Monde, Dakar, Senegal)
"Urban Poverty, Environment and Political Participation: Yeumbeul, Dakar Case Study"

Anne Golden
(President, United Way of Greater Toronto; Chair, Mayor's Homelessness Action Task Force; and Chair, Greater Toronto Area Task Force)
"Homelessness, Political Restructuring; Toronto at a Turning Point"

Discussants:
Céline Sachs-Jeantet
(Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)

Richard Stren
(Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, Canada)

Breakout Room 3 .

Workshop 4:
Air quality and transportation in global city-regions

Workshop organized by Jack Broadbent on behalf of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (Los Angeles)

Chair:
Jack Broadbent
(Deputy Executive Officer, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Los Angeles)

Speakers:
Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez
(Secretariat of Environment, Government of the Federal District, Mexico)

Mikael Stamming
(Development Director, County Council of Helsinborg, Sweden)

Adrian Fernandez Bremauntz
(Director General of Management & Environmental Information, National Institute of Ecology, San Angel, Mexico)

Ching-Shi Yang
(Senior Specialist, Bureau of Air Quality Protection and Noise Control, Environmental Protection Administration, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

12:30 - 2:00 PM
International Hall
Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 PM
. THREE PARALLEL SESSIONS
Breakout Room 1 . Panel 6:
Global city-regions in developing countries


Chair:
Akin Mabogunje
(Development Policy Centre, Ibadan, Nigeria)

Speakers:
Celso Daniel
(Mayor of Santo André, Brazil)
"Working Together on a New Model for Regional Planning, The Case of the Greater ABC Region, São Paulo, Brazil"


Richard Stren
(Director, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, Canada)
"Local Governance and
Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions"

Hubert Schmitz
(Institute of Development Studies,University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
"The Limitation of Private Local Governance: lesson from a Brazilian Cluster"
Breakout Room 2 . Panel 7:
Citizenship and democracy in global city-regions


Chair:
Michael Dear
(Director, Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

Speakers:
James Holston
(Department of Anthropology,University of California, San Diego)
"Urban Citizenship and Globalization"

Engin Isin
(Faculty of Social and Political Sciences University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Associate Professor, Division of Social Science York University, Toronto, Canada)
"Istanbul, Islamization and Globalization: Conflicting Paths to Citizenship"
Breakout Room 3 .

Workshop 5:
Community organizing for local economic development

Workshop organized by Larry Fondation on behalf of the Industrial Areas Foundation.

Chair:
Larry Fondation
(Senior Organizer, Southern California Industrial Areas Foundation, Los Angeles)

Speakers:
Peter Tufano
(Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School, Harvard University)

Saundra Willingham
(Executive Director, Nehemiah Housing Corporation, Altadena, California)

 

3:30 - 4:00 PM
West Gallery
Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:30 PM
International Hall
Plenary Session V
Finale: The harvest and the tasks ahead

Chair:
Michael Dukakis
(Former Governor of Massachusetts)

Round table discussion with:
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod
(Department of Sociology, New School University, New York)


Alice Amsden
(Department of Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Riccardo Petrella
(Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;
former Head of Unit, Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology Program, European Commission)


Mario Pezzini
(Head of Division, Territorial Reviews, OECD, Paris)


Edward Soja
(Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles)

Other participants to be announced
5:30 PM
International Hall
Closing remarks
Barbara Nelson
(Dean, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research)


Conference Organizing Committee:

             Allen J. Scott (Chair) 

             John Agnew 

             Steve Commins 

             Linda Griego 

             Gene Grigsby 

             Robert Rodino 

             Edward Soja 

             Michael Storper 

             Lynne Zucker 

             Nga Scott (Conference Coordinator)