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The
conference summary offers a brief and portable schedule of conference
events. For complete day by day conference information please see
the detailed program.
All events will be held in Tom
Bradley International Hall on the UCLA
Campus unless otherwise stated.
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Thursday,
October 21 |
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1:45
PM Onward
West Gallery |
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Registration |
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3:00
- 3:15 PM
International Hall |
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Opening
Ceremonies
Barbara
Nelson
(Dean, UCLA School
of Public Policy and Social Research)
Words of welcome
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3:15
- 4:30 PM
International Hall |
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Plenary
Session I
Global
city-regions: an overview of conference themes
Chair:
Kim Campbell
(Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles, and former Prime
Minister of Canada)
Speakers:
Allen
J. Scott
(School of Public Policy and Social Research, UCLA)
Brief Preview of Conference Issues and Summary of the
Conference Theme Paper 'Global City-Regions'
[authored by John Agnew, Allen J. Scott, Edward W.
Soja, and Michael Storper]
Followed by responses and discussion from:
Janet
Lippman Abu-Lughod(Department of Sociology, New School
University, New York)
Akin
Mabogunje (Development Policy Centre, Ibadan, Nigeria)
Myron Orfield (Minnesota House of Representatives,
Minneapolis)
Saskia Sassen (Department of Sociology, University
of Chicago)
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Transportation
from UCLA
to the Getty Museum |
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5:30
PM
Getty Museum |
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Reception
and cocktails
at the Getty
Museum
Co-sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Trust |
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6:30
PM
Getty Museum
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Conference
address
Opening Remarks
Barbara
Nelson
(Dean, UCLA School
of Public Policy and Social Research)
Albert
Carnesale
(Chancellor, University
of California, Los Angeles)
Richard Riordan
(Mayor, City of Los Angeles)
Keynote Speaker:
James
Wolfensohn
(President, The
World Bank)
in the presence of:
Lucien Bouchard
(Premier of Québec, Canada)
Celso Daniel
(Mayor of Santo André, Brazil)
Eberhard Diepgen
(Mayor of Berlin, Germany)
Ketso Gordhan
(Chief Executive Officer, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan
Council, South Africa)
Jens Kramer Mikkelsen
(Mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark; Member of the European
Committee of the Regions)
Frank Sartor
(Mayor of Sydney, Australia)
Cassio Taniguchi
(Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil)
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DAY
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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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| Breakout
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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Room 3 |
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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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Saturday,
October 23 |
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9:00
- 10:15 AM
International Hall |
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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"
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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
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"
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Workshop
3:
Urban poverty and political participation
Organized by Geneviéve Domenach-Chich
on behalf of UNESCO.
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)
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Room 3 |
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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.)
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12:30
- 2:00 PM
International Hall |
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Lunch
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2:00
- 3:30 PM
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THREE
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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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" |
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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" |
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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)
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3:30
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West Gallery |
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Coffee
Break |
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4:00
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International Hall |
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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
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5:30
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International Hall
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Closing remarks
Barbara
Nelson
(Dean, UCLA School
of Public Policy and Social Research)
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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)
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