Megacity : Beyond Risk towards safe city

• Host: Seoul Metropolitan Government, The Seoul Institute, Joonmin foundation for social theory, green fund, ERC fund

• Date: 11th July, 2014

• Program

  • Keynote : Why do we need a Comopolitan Cooperation? (Ulrich Bacck_Professor, The University of Mun

  • Presentation Session #1:Risks in Asian Megacities and Role of Think TanksⅠ

    • Megacity, Risk Society and the Role of Think Tank : From Risk to Safe City (Changhyun Lee_President, the SI)

    • Social Capital and Reduction of Disaster Risk(Zhao Yandong _Research Fellow,Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development)

  • Presentation Session  #2:  Case Study

    • Beijing: Resources Risk and Environment and its Solution Strategy in Beijing(Yiling Pan_Vice President, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design)

    • Spatial Strategy for Metropolitan Shanghai in light of Innovationdriven and Transformational Development (Zhang Yuxin_President,Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute)

    • ​​Active Mobility for a Sustainable Singapore (Limin Hee_Director,Centre for Liveable Cities)

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      Challenges of HCMC Urban Transport and Land Use (Tran Anh Tuan_Vice President,Ho Chi Minh Institute for Development Studies)

  • Discussion Session #1: Risks of Asian Megacity and Role of Think Tanks Ⅱ

    • Discussion Panels:

      • ​​​​​Manhee Han(Dean, International School of Urban Science, University of Seoul)

      • Yeonsik Yoo(Assistant Secretary General, CITYNET)

      • Raul T.Vaswani(Senior Program Manager,ICLEI)

      • ​Choi Yul(President, Green Foundation)