PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES - URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLANNING - 2010

Organised by Vietnamese-German University - University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City

The interdisciplinary approach to “Urban Development Planning” represents a new and overdue answer to the current problems of emerging Megacities like Ho Chi Minh City. All speakers are visiting Vietnam as lecturers in the Masters Course “Urban Development Planning” of the Vietnamese-German University, whose topic coincides with the overarching theme “City of the Future – Future of the City” of the German Year in Vietnam, celebrating in 2010 thirty-five years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Venue: USSH, 10-12 Dinh Tien Hoang Street, District 1, HCMC – Room: D201 (Building D, 2nd floor) – Time: 5 to 7 p.m.

December 30, 2009
New Challenges for Urban development Planning under the Pressure of Globalization
Prof. Dr. Kosta Mathéy
University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany & Polytechnic University José Antonio Echeverría, Havana, Cuba
January 06, 2010
Recent Urban Projects in Berlin, Germany
Prof. Julian Wékel
University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany
January 20, 2010
Strategies towards Successful Urban Heritage Conservation
Prof. Cor Dijkgraaf
Urban Solutions, Rotterdam, Netherlands
February 03, 2010
Climate Change Impacts on the Urban Environment
Dr. Harry Storch
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany & Vietnamese-German University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
March 03, 2010
Socio-Economic Challenges to Urban Development
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pólvora
Mundus-Urbano Scholar
March 17, 2010
Energy and Urban Environmental Policies
Prof. Dr. Jochen Monstadt
University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany
March 31, 2010
Urban Governance approaches in Western Europe
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geissel
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
April 07, 2010
Appropriate Choice of Urban Public Transport in Developing Countries
Prof. Dr. Ali Huzayyin
Cairo University, Egypt
April 28, 2010
Funding of Urban Development Ventures
Prof. Dr. Karl Kluegel
University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China
May 26, 2010
Issues in Monitoring and Evaluating Development Projects
Dr. Reinhard Skinner
Director, Urban Management Development Associates (UMDA), The Netherlands
June 09, 2010
Transnational Planning: Reconfiguring Spaces and Institutions
Prof. Clara Irazábal, PhD.
Columbia University, New York City, USA
June 16, 2010
The Impact of Climate Change on Megacities and possible Responses
Dr. Dirk Heinrichs
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
June 23, 2010
Urban Strategies towards Globalization
Dr. Rod Burgess
Oxford Brookes University, UK

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