The 2020 Urban Science Symposium Megacities and Megacity-Regions
July 31 - August 4, 2020
The 2020 Urban Science Symposium
Megacities and Megacity-Regions
July 31 - August 4, 2020
July 31 - August 4, 2020
The 2020 Urban Science Symposium has been postponed to August 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new time for this symposium will be announced on our website soon.
由于COVID-19疫情的原因，2020年城市科学论坛将推迟至2022年8月举行，具体的论坛时间将于近期在此网站上公布。
REGISTRATIONS
注册统计
1、In the registration form column, 1 represents that the registry has been submitted, 0 represents that it has not been submitted. 2、Registration fee and registration information are currently counted to January 10, 2020, and submission information after this date will be updated gradually later. 备注： 1、在注册表一栏中，1代表注册表已经提交，0代表注册表尚未提交。 2、该注册费与注册表信息统计截止到2020年1月10日，在此日期后的提交信息将在后面逐步更新。 |
CHAIRMEN
会议主席
Prof. Haoying Han
韩昊英，浙江大学教授
Haoying Han is professor and director of the Institute of Urban and Rural Planning Theories and Technologies at Zhejiang University. He was visiting professor at University of Toronto (December 2018-December 2019) and visiting scholar to Seoul National University (August 2013- February 2014). His research is focused on theories of urban complexity and planning decision making, and the empirical studies of urban containment policies including urban growth boundaries and greenbelts.
Prof. André Sorensen
安德烈·索伦森，多伦多大学教授
André Sorensen is professor of the Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough. He has published extensively on Japanese urbanisation, urban planning, and planning history. His recent work draws on historical and sociological institutionalist ideas about path dependence, processes of incremental change, and urban politics to study urban change processes and the incremental change of urban property and property rights.
ORGANIZER
会议主办方
Sino-Canada Culture and Arts Foundation
中加文化艺术基金会
Zhejiang University Alumni Association of Canada
加拿大浙江大学校友会
University of
Toronto
Toronto
多伦多大学
Journal of Urban Management
《城市管理》国际期刊
GREETINGS FROM ORGANIZERS
主办方代表致辞
Timur Zhao
铁木尔
中加文化艺术基金会
代表
Ying Sheng
盛颖
加拿大浙江大学校友会
会长
To be announced
待定
多伦多大学代表
Feng-Tyan Lin
林峰田
JUM特刊主编
SESSIONS AND MODERATORS
专题及召集人
SESSIONS AND PROFESSORS
各专题专家团队
THEME
主题
主题
Megacities and Megacity-Regions (MMRs)
超大城市和超大城市地区
While the international definitions of “megacity” vary, from a population threshold of four million to ten million, the threshold of 10 million has been widely adopted by the United Nations and many countries. According to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects 2018, world urban population was 4.2 billion in 2018, with about 463 million living in 29 urban agglomerations larger than 10 million. It shows that megacities and megacity-regions represent only about 12% of global urban population. This share is expected to increase to 16% by 2035. The largest megacity in the world is probably Tokyo. The Greater Tokyo Area (Capital Region or Shuto-ken) has a total population of over 38 million. At the same time, even bigger megacity-regions have emerged by integrating adjacent cities, towns and other urbanized areas, which “through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form a continuous urban and economically developed area that functions in at least some respects as integrated urban entities” (Friedmann and Sorensen 2019). Such polycentric regions tend to incorporate even larger labor pools and periurban areas into their orbit. The largest megacity-region in the world might be the Yangtze River Delta area around Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou with a population estimated at over 140 million (Sorensen and Labbé 2020 forthcoming).
Megacities and megacity-regions (MMRs) are important, distinctive in their governance, environmental, liveability, and economic challenges, and their roles in current urbanization processes must be better understood. The uniqueness of MMRs arises from their unparalleled complexity. Great scales and dynamics render such giant urban agglomerations impossible to define by geographical boundaries and difficult to manage through traditional approaches. We have to realize that though cities and megacities are both complex systems, the dictum that more is different implies that harnessing cities is different from governing megacities. Governing megacities requires actions planned and taken at a level different from those for regular cities. Such actions need to be developed in almost all the traditional fields of urban planning, including land use, transportation, infrastructures, housing, heritages etc. We need to think afresh how megacities and megacity regions work and how we can harness them through action modes in addition to planning, including but not limited to administering, regulating, and governing. It is time to focus our critical and analytical lenses on the particularities and distinctive issues associated with the megaurbanization processes arising in MMRs.
LANGUAGES
语言
English, 31 July 2020
Chinese, 1-4 August 2020
IMPORTANT DATES
重要日期
1 April 2020 Ordinary Registration & Abstract Submission Deadline
1 June 2020 Full paper Submission Deadline
31 July-2 August 2020 Symposium
1 June 2020 Full paper Submission Deadline
31 July-2 August 2020 Symposium
1 April 2020: Ordinary Registration & Abstract Submission Deadline
1 June 2020: Full paper Submission Deadline
30 July - 3 August: Symposium
CONFERENCE & EXCURSION FEES
注册及考察费
Symposium (July 31th —August 2nd):
Symposium (July 31th —August 2nd):
Ordinary registration — register between January 10th and April 1st 400 CAD
Late registration — register after April 1st 450 CAD
(including English & Chinese sessions, banquets)
Toronto scholars/students discount — register on August 1st 150 CAD
(including English & Chinese sessions)
Toronto scholars/students discount — register on August 1st 60 CAD
(including English sessions only)
(including English & Chinese sessions, banquets)
Late registration — register after April 1st 450 CAD
(including English & Chinese sessions, banquets)
Toronto scholars/students discount — register on August 1st 150 CAD
(including English & Chinese sessions)
Toronto scholars/students discount — register on August 1st 60 CAD
(including English sessions only)
Ordinary registration
- (January 10 th - April 1 st ): 400 CAD
Late registration
- (after April 1 st ): 450 CAD
University of Toronto Faculty/Student Discount: 150 CAD
August 1 st only: 60 CAD
City Excursion
(August 4th )
100 CAD
City Excursion (August 4th ) 100 CAD
Niagara Gorge Excursion
(August 5 th )
100 CAD
Niagara Gorge Excursion (August 5 th ) 100 CAD
JOURNAL OF URBAN MANAGEMENT
SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEGACITIES GOVERNANCE
SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEGACITIES GOVERNANCE
《城市管理》特刊：超大城市治理
Shih-Kung Lai Feng-Tyan Lin
Editor-in-Chief Guest Editer
Tongji University Tongji University
Shih-Kung Lai Feng-Tyan Lin
Editor-in-Chief Guest Editer
Tongji University Tongji University
More than half of the world population lives in cities since 2007 and it is expected that more than
two thirds of the world population will move into cities by 2050. Megacities are the outcome of this
rapid global urbanization. We are facing an era of cities that are dominated by megacities. We know
relatively little about how megacities work, not to mention how to harness them. One might argue
that we have gained so much knowledge and experience about how to plan cities that we can simply
use the same knowledge to tackle the megacity issues. Though cities and megacities are both complex
systems, the dictum that more is different implies that harnessing cities is different from governing
megacities. Governing megacities requires actions planned and taken at a level different from those
for regular cities. For example, urban renewal projects with a scale that work in regular cities might
fail in megacities. Transportation infrastructure that fits well regular cities might not work in
megacities. The pace of life in megacities is much faster than regular cities that planners need to think
twice in applying the traditional planning techniques to tackle urban issues in megacities. In short, we
need to think afresh how megacities work and how we can harness them through action modes in
addition to planning, including but not limited to administering, regulating, and governing.
Coordinating decisions connotes arranging decisions in space and time so that the outcome of
such arrangement yields an acceptable level of satisfaction. The decisions are interdependent and can
be made by the same decision maker or by other decision makers. There can be four modes of
coordinating decisions: planning, administering, regulating, and governing. A plan is a path in a
decision tree that takes into account possible alternatives and uncertain outcomes and can be
analyzed through the decision analysis framework. Effective administration depends on useful
organizational designs in that organizations are manifestations of decision coordination. Plans and
organizations thus complement each other. Regulations identify permissible rights for the decision
maker to act. Governance implies collective choices. Managing urban complexity, in particular
megacities, requires all four modes of decision coordination, that is, planning, administering,
regulating, and governing, or PARGing, cities. In particular, plans coordinate decisions through
information; administration coordinates decisions through organizations; regulations coordinate
decisions through rights; and governance coordinates decisions through collective choices, all
bringing about order in the background of urban complexity. In terms of purposes, plans tend to cope
with the problems of dynamics failure; administration deals with the problems of government failure;
regulations cope with the problems of market failure in relation to externalities; and governance deals
with the problems of market failure in relation to collective goods.
In this special issue, we welcome submissions of excellent manuscripts focused on two lines of
thought: how megacities work and how we should deal with them. Both theoretical and empirical
works are welcome to submit to the special issue before December 31, 2020 via the EVISE submission
system at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-urban-management.
LOCATION
地点
Toronto City Hall, Toronto, Canada
多伦多市政厅
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