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SUMMARY:The International Conference on Urban Affairs 2024
DESCRIPTION:Event Review\n\nUpdate\nThe special track at the UAA conference has been awarded a triple issue (three issues) in the Journal of Urban Affairs. These three issues, titled “Asian Cities on the Edge” feature 23 contributors from 17 prestigious universities across eight countries and regions, including the University of Washington, Columbia University, National University of Singapore, Barnard College, Incheon National University, City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Geneva.\n\n \nDate: 24-27 April 2024\nVenue: Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA\nSpecial Track: “Asian Cities on the Edge”\nThe World Congress 2024 is jointly organised by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), and the European Urban Research Association (EURA). CLASS Smart City Research Cluster Convenor Professor June WANG has been commissioned by the UAA to set up the special track on “Asian Cities on the Edge.” This track features one keynote session titled “Theorising Through Asia” and 10 ordinary paper sessions covering a wide spectrum of topics, from “History, Heritage and Cities,” “Land and Housing Commodification, “to  “Urban Development and Governance”, “Environmental Governance”, to “Digitalization and Cities”, “Platform Urbanism”, etc.\nThe special track has attracted 68 international scholars from top universities in 11 countries and regions, including America(Columbia University; MIT; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Rutgers University, etc.), Italy(University of Turin), Switzerland(University of Geneva), Singapore(NTU), Korea(Incheon National University), India(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), and Hong Kong(CityU; HKU).\nKEYNOTE SESSION\nTheorising Through Asia\nDate: 25 April 2024 (Thursday)\nTime: 8am – 9:30am\nVenue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA\nPresentations: \nTheorizing Chinese Cities\nKam-wing CHAN, University of Washington\nThe Global East as Borderlands\nJune WANG, City University of Hong Kong\nEveryday Places as Sites of Civic Engagement\nJeffrey HOU, University of Washington, Seattle\n \nHIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS\nDigitalization and Cities\nDate: 25 April 2024 (Thursday)\nTime: 8am – 9:30am\nVenue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA\nPresentations:\nDigitalizing Red Tape: India’s Interstate Migrants and the Path to Urban Citizenship\nShoshana R GOLDSTEIN, Trinity College\nDoes privatization serve the public value in the digital era? Urban government’s choice of corporate partners in China’s smart city development\nGangjian LIN, Zhejiang University; Yuanshuo Xu, Zhejiang University\nRescaling (Digital) Social Innovation: Hackability in Shanghai\nPaolo GIACCARIA, University of Turin\nHow can informal mobility contribute to sustainable development? Insights from India, and takeaways for policy, technology, and innovation\nSandip CHAKRABARTI, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Muskan Muskan, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Nitya Dilipsinh Jadeja, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad\nLand record modernization and common property rights: A case study in peri-urban Bangalore, India\nPrithvi HEGDE, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign\n \nPlatform Urbanism\nDate: 25 April 2024 (Thursday)\nTime: 9:50am – 11:20am\nVenue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA\nPresentations:\nThe Rise of the New Labor Force in Chinese Cities: Gig Workers, Social Equity, and Urban Governance\nLin YE, Sun Yat-sen University\n‘We are not weak’: The protests and everyday resistance of platform workers in China\nYu FENG, Fudan University\nEat Local, Live Global: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Platform Urbanism in Makati City, Philippines\nNasha VIRATA, Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey\nGrounding Urban Platforms: Instant Food and Grocery Delivery in Kolkata\nTriparnee KUSHARI, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey\nFrom online to onsite: wanghong economy as the new engine for China’s urban development\nLiu CAO, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University\n \nInclusive Cities, or Not?\nDate: 26 April 2024 (Friday)\nTime: 9:50am – 11:20am\nVenue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA\nPresentations:\nSouth Korean Cities in an Age of Migration: How to Discuss Community with a New Language of Identity?\nJill L TAO, Incheon National University\nBuilding a Community through the Global Age-Friendly Policy Intervention\nEunju HWANG, Virginia Tech\nExploring Migration and Creativity Bond in Hamamatsu. Inclusive Urban Festivals and City Identity\nNerea Viana ALZOLA, University of Geneva\nCo-producing the creative migrant and precarity through skill in Singapore\nJunjia YE, Nanyang Technological University\nBeyond Exploitation: Ethnic Minority Gig Workers in China’s Platform Economy\nYishake GULINIGAER, City University of Hong Kong; June Wang, City University of Hong Kong\n \nUrbanism, an Alternative Lens\nDate: 26 April 2024 (Friday)\nTime: 3:30pm – 5pm\nVenue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA\nPresentations:\nThe Affective City: An Alternative History of China’s Rapid Urbanization\nNick R SMITH, Barnard College\nBrackish Urbanism: Value, State Space, and the Postcolonial Palimpsest in East Asia\nBen GERLOFS, The University of Hong Kong\nGhosts of Socialism: Urban Renewal in the Context of Bankrupt State-Owned Factories in Southwest China\nSarah CHANG, Miami University\nConstructing marginality: Gender in a new education city\nEkta CHAUHAN, OP Jindal Global University\nThe transformation of Back Drainage Space in the former colonial city of Yangon, Myanmar – The role and today’s significance\nTOMOKO MATSUSHITA, Urban Disaster Research Institute\nFor more details and to view the full program rundown, please visit here.\n\n
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