Update Date: 24-27 April 2024 Venue: Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA Special Track: “Asian Cities on the Edge” The 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. The 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). KEYNOTE SESSION Theorising Through Asia Date: 25 April 2024 (Thursday) Time: 8am – 9:30am Venue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA Presentations: Theorizing Chinese Cities Kam-wing CHAN, University of Washington The Global East as Borderlands June WANG, City University of Hong Kong Everyday Places as Sites of Civic Engagement Jeffrey HOU, University of Washington, Seattle HIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS Digitalization and Cities Date: 25 April 2024 (Thursday) Time: 8am – 9:30am Venue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA Presentations: Digitalizing Red Tape: India’s Interstate Migrants and the Path to Urban Citizenship Shoshana R GOLDSTEIN, Trinity College Does privatization serve the public value in the digital era? Urban government’s choice of corporate partners in China’s smart city development Gangjian LIN, Zhejiang University; Yuanshuo Xu, Zhejiang University Rescaling (Digital) Social Innovation: Hackability in Shanghai Paolo GIACCARIA, University of Turin How can informal mobility contribute to sustainable development? Insights from India, and takeaways for policy, technology, and innovation Sandip CHAKRABARTI, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Muskan Muskan, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Nitya Dilipsinh Jadeja, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Land record modernization and common property rights: A case study in peri-urban Bangalore, India Prithvi HEGDE, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Platform Urbanism Date: 25 April 2024 (Thursday) Time: 9:50am – 11:20am Venue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA Presentations: The Rise of the New Labor Force in Chinese Cities: Gig Workers, Social Equity, and Urban Governance Lin YE, Sun Yat-sen University ‘We are not weak’: The protests and everyday resistance of platform workers in China Yu FENG, Fudan University Eat Local, Live Global: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Platform Urbanism in Makati City, Philippines Nasha VIRATA, Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey Grounding Urban Platforms: Instant Food and Grocery Delivery in Kolkata Triparnee KUSHARI, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey From online to onsite: wanghong economy as the new engine for China’s urban development Liu CAO, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Inclusive Cities, or Not? Date: 26 April 2024 (Friday) Time: 9:50am – 11:20am Venue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA Presentations: South Korean Cities in an Age of Migration: How to Discuss Community with a New Language of Identity? Jill L TAO, Incheon National University Building a Community through the Global Age-Friendly Policy Intervention Eunju HWANG, Virginia Tech Exploring Migration and Creativity Bond in Hamamatsu. Inclusive Urban Festivals and City Identity Nerea Viana ALZOLA, University of Geneva Co-producing the creative migrant and precarity through skill in Singapore Junjia YE, Nanyang Technological University Beyond Exploitation: Ethnic Minority Gig Workers in China’s Platform Economy Yishake GULINIGAER, City University of Hong Kong; June Wang, City University of Hong Kong Urbanism, an Alternative Lens Date: 26 April 2024 (Friday) Time: 3:30pm – 5pm Venue: SOHO, 7/F, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA Presentations: The Affective City: An Alternative History of China’s Rapid Urbanization Nick R SMITH, Barnard College Brackish Urbanism: Value, State Space, and the Postcolonial Palimpsest in East Asia Ben GERLOFS, The University of Hong Kong Ghosts of Socialism: Urban Renewal in the Context of Bankrupt State-Owned Factories in Southwest China Sarah CHANG, Miami University Constructing marginality: Gender in a […]
