Rob Cowley presented findings from our project last week at a workshop on ‘Spatial Smartness’, organised by the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Research Network on ‘Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability’, at the University of Gdansk. The previous week, Frans Sengers gave a paper comparing the governance dimensions of smart city development in Holland, Germany and China, at …
Category: Conferences and workshops
Announcing UK-China Workshop in Cardiff
We’re pleased to announce that our project colleague Li Yu has organised a two-day international symposium on ‘Sustainable Smart Eco-City Planning and Development’ at Cardiff University (12-13 Oct 2017). There is an excellent list of speakers from both China and Europe, and several of our own project colleagues will be sharing findings from our SMART-ECO …
Sharing Findings in Tianjin
Our colleagues Li Yu, Andrew Flynn and Linjun Xie took part in a workshop on Smart and Eco Cities at the Tianjin Urban Planning & Design Institute (TUPDI) on 6 September 2017. The workshop explored the planning and development of smart eco-city in Tianjin and China. Participants include Mr. Changlin Zhou (deputy dean of TUPDI), …
Sponge City Seminar at the 5th ILCC in Shenzhen
Our team member Ali Cheshmehzangi presented at a special seminar on ‘Sponge Cities’ in Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City, held as part of the 5th annual International Low Carbon City (ILCC) forum, on 8 September 2017. He shared his insights into sponge city development in the UK and China, under the title “Resilient City Development: Comprehensive …
Australia and China: July Conference Presentations
Our team members presented research at two major conferences in July: the Ecocity World Summit 2017, in Melbourne (Australia) the 2017 (12th) Conference on Urban Development and Planning, held in Haikou City, Hainan Province (China) In Melbourne, Frans Sengers presented a comparative analysis of institutional arrangements for smart city experiments in Amsterdam, Ningbo, and Hamburg (download …
2017 Global Smart City Summit in Shanghai
Our team members Ali Cheshmehzangi and Frans Sengers recently presented at the main forum of the 2017 Global Smart City Summit in Shanghai, 28-30 June 2017. They spoke about our project, and presented a comparative study of the smart city experimentation of Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ningbo from an institutional perspective under the title “Comparing smart cities …
Presentations & Talks: Summer 2017
Over the last couple of months, different team members have presented research findings at events in Hamburg, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Ningbo, and London (see our publications page for further details). If you are interested in our work, do come and find us at these upcoming events over July and August: Natural Resources and Urban Transformations Colloquium (Rurh-Universität in Bochum, Germany, …
2017 Annual Project Meeting in Exeter
On May 10-11, we held our annual team-wide project meeting in Exeter, the UK. The first day was largely devoted to sharing and discussing findings from fieldwork over the last few months. On the second day, we focused on our dissemination plans for the coming year. Alongside the academic publications that are underway and planned, we are …
Recent Research Presentations
We are currently making plans for the various conferences where we will be presenting our research over the next few months. Watch this space if you would like to join us! In the meantime, recent papers given include the following: Philipp Späth spoke about the project and presented a selection of his results under …
Presentations at EU-Asian Sustainable Management Conference in Taipei
Our project team in China recently presented three papers at the ‘EU-Asian Sustainable Management’ conference in Taipei, 15-16 March 2017, drawing on fieldwork in Shenzhen and Ningbo this year. The Global Actors of Pingdi’s International Low Carbon City: An analysis of their Influences on the Planning Process China’s move towards a New Low-Carbon Development Mode? An Analysis …