Urban development from below: Between people-led development and state modernization projects in Vietnam. Lecture by Dr. Hoai Anh Tran, Associate Professor of Built Environment at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. Her research provides a critical analysis of the state-society relationship in urban space production, in the formulation and implementation of urban and housing […]
The Goto Lab, led by Professor Haruhiko GOTO of Waseda University, has been a pioneer in urban and regional planning in Japan. In the historic city of Nara, their most recent work has focused on community-engaged medical care, an urgent need in the face of the aging society in Japan. From September 27 to October […]
Edited by Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou Errata — May 2018 Revised Acknowledgments Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a […]
Join us for a two-evening event with special guest the internationally renowned and award-winning architect and designer Kengo Kuma whose work spans Europe and Asia. Kuma has written extensively on the sustainable development of both rural and urban Japan. In this two-part event he will share his insights and work related to Japan’s development and […]
Discussion Board March 28-30, 2016, University of Washington This joint workshop between the Center for Asian Urbanism and the UW faculty cluster for Resilience in the Built Environment highlights the UW’s capacities to apply cultural context-specific expertise to problems of urbanization across the Pacific. Preceding the 75th Anniversary conference of the Association for Asian Studies […]
Mitsubishi Corporation Lecture Series 2015-16 Sustaining Japan: past, present, future This two-part series examines the lessons learned during five years of recovery efforts since the March 11, 2011 disasters in Japan, and looks ahead to how those lessons impact our thinking about development for 2020. Part 1 is January 13-14. Part 2 is April 13-14. […]
Friday, March 7, 2015 12-1pm, Gould 100 Winter Quarter Brown Bag Scott Melbourne University of Hong Kong Scott Jennings Melbourne is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong who possesses more than a decade of experience in professional practice. His research investigates the role of landscape as a medium and […]
Edited Jeffrey Hou, Ben Spencer, Thaisa Way and Ken Yocom After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an […]
Department of Landscape Architecture & Center for Asian Urbanism Monday, Feb. 23, 2015 12-1pm, Gould 100 Hendrik Tieben Associate Professor & Director M.Sc. in Urban Design Program School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hendrik TIEBEN is Associate Professor and Director of the M.Sc. in Urban Design program at the School of Architecture of The Chinese University […]
Monday, Feb. 3, 2015 12-1pm, Gould 100 Winter Quarter Brown Bag Associate Professor Ah-Yeon Kim, University of Seoul Ah-Yeon Kim is both an academic and practicing landscape architect who leads a design network, STUDIOS terra. She is a coordinator for the International Workshop on Urban Landscape, a collaborative and multidisciplinary student workshop. Her works range […]