School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations, lectures and seminars since 2005 

• 2010. ‘Economic Growth and the Failure of Planning in Japanese Cities.’ Open Forum Workshop: Cities in a Globalising World:  Economic Growth, Social Problems, and Planning, University of Helsinki, 20 May.
• 2010. ‘Distinctive Patterns of Industrial Urbanization in Modern Tokyo, ca. 1880-1930.’ Paper presented at ‘Motor  Cities’:  A Comparative History of Nagoya and Birmingham. Workshop, 8 April.
• 2010. ‘Picking a path through networks of urban theories and theories of urban networks: towards an East Asian regional urbanism.’ Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability: The Cities, Culture, and Society (CCS) Conference, Munich, 26 February.
• 2010. ‘Contemporary Tokyo: Two tales of one city.’ London and Tokyo: The Prospect of Comparison An Exploratory Workshop, 25 February.
• 2009. ‘Japanese cities in Chinese perspective.’ RGS-IBG conference session on Comparative Urbanism, 28 August. 2008. ‘Ruining and restoring rivers: water and the crisis of modernity attained in Japan.’ Water: Knowledge, Space, Flow session, RGS-IBG, 28 August.
• 2008. ‘Who cares about the environment in Japan?’ Centre for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 7 March.
• 2008. ‘The Tokyo-isation of the Japanese landscape.’ Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, 5 March. And Centre for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 6 March.
• 2008. ‘Urban image makers -- celebrating change and obfuscating its impact?’ International Symposium, Urban Image and the Re-Writing of the Japanese Metropolis, Sophia University, 12 January.
• 2007. ‘Re-scripting the city: Tokyo from ugly duckling to cool cat.’ Publishing Landscapes: Books, Geography and Landscape Tastes session, RGS-IBG, 30 August.
• 2007. ‘Tokyo-as-world-city: reassessing the role of capital and the state in urban restructuring.’ Paper presented to Laboratory of Regional Design with Ecology, Hōsei University, Tokyo, 28 May.
• 2006. With M. Purvis. ‘Trieste, caught between late-lasting empire and late-developing nation-state.’ Paper presented at Sixth European Urban & Regional Studies Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 21-24 September.
• 2006. ‘Tokyo-as-world-city: reassessing the role of capital and the state in urban restructuring.’ Paper presented at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House, London, 13 January.
• 2005. ‘Tokyo as space of tension: articulation and reticulation in urban restructuring.’ Paper presented at Cardiff Japanese Studies Centre, Cardiff Business Centre, Cardiff University, 14 December.
• 2005. ‘Re-locating the city: Tokyo between Shanghai and Paris.’ Paper presented to the Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung), ‘Urban Spaces in Japan: The Social Scientific Study of Japan and the “Spatial Turn”,’ Königswinter, 18-20 November 2005.
• 2005. ‘Building banks for Japan’s river: Which comes first, beauty or the beasts?’ Paper presented to Laboratory of Regional Design with Ecology, Hōsei University, Tokyo, 18 March.