Home > Events > GAI Conference Liveable Cities Led by Prof Brenda Yeoh Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore Abstract Rapid urban growth in recent decades has meant that cities are now important hubs where the majority of the world’s population are increasingly concentrated, a phenomenon most vividly signalled by the rise of megacities across Asia and Africa. These trends pose significant challenges for issues of liveability and sustainability, fueling the need to rethink current approaches to understanding and managing the ‘urban condition’. While a host of ‘liveability’ indices have been developed by corporate enterprises and think-tanks over the years, these are primarily designed to facilitate the circulation of expatriate workers. These sessions aim to transcend the privileged discourse represented by rankings of liveable cities to consider what liveability means “on the ground” for a broader spectrum of urban inhabitants including locals and migrants (across class, ethnicity, nationality, gender and age). They will examine the critical points of convergence and divergence between the grounded realities of people’s everyday experiences and encounters, and institutional discourses, practices and policies prescribed by the state. Papers address topics including: meanings of liveability; environmental sustainability; hygiene and health; high density living; urban infrastructure planning; cosmopolitanism and diversity; and issues of social provisioning and access. Session 1 29 June 2012 (Friday) 11:00 – 12:30 NUS University Town Education Resource Centre (ERC) Seminar Rooms Liveable Cities Chair Prof Jane Jacobs Professor, University of Edinburgh; Visiting Senior Fellow at NUS Presenters • Liveability and the Right to the City in a Global Age in Asia Prof Mike Douglass University of Hawaii at Manoa • Friendship and Liveability in Urbanizing Asia A/P Tim Bunnell Department of Geography, NUS • Urban Change and Patterns of Everyday Life Dr Ozan Karaman Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability Session 2 29 June 2012 (Friday) 13:30 – 15:00 NUS University Town Education Resource Centre (ERC) Seminar Rooms Liveable Cities Chair Dr Chang Jiat Hwee Assistant Professor, Dept of Architecture, NUS Presenters • Ecologies of City Living Prof Jane Jacobs University of Edinburgh, Visiting Senior Fellow, NUS • City Makers and Effective Knowledge in the Age of Global Modernity Dr Misha Petrovic Department of Sociology, NUS • The Dangers of Urban Involution during Asian Urbanization A/Prof Zhu Jieming Department of Real Estate, NUS Session 3 29 June 2012 (Friday) 15:30 – 17:00 NUS University Town Education Resource Centre (ERC) Seminar Rooms Liveable Cities Chair Prof Brenda Yeoh Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS Presenters • Global Liveable Cities Index: Growth with Inclusivity A/Prof Tan Khee Giap Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Co-Director, Asia Competitiveness Institute • Beyond liveability? Placing happiness and sustainability in the community Dr. Chang Jiat Hwee Department of Architecture, NUS Dr. Harvey Neo Department of Geography, NUS A/P Pow Choon Piew Department of Geography, NUS • Liveability in Hyderabad: A Neighbourhood Focus A/P Tracey Skelton and Dr Diganta Das Department of Geography, NUS

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