The Bartlett School of Planning PhD Conference

Session 1 – Urban space, urban agriculture

10.00

Opening welcome – Yvonne Rydin

10.05-10.35

Jingyi Zhu

Making public space in an excellent global city: Vision, rhetoric and reality

10.35-11.05

Ruth Sepulveda Marquez

Urban agriculture projects under the constraints of neoliberalism: exploring networks, discourses and story-lines in Santiago

11.05-11.25

Questions and Discussion

Session 2 – People moving

11.35-12.05

Meiling Wu

Curse or Blessing: Community and Development Impacts of Second Homes in China

12.35-13.05

Paul Moawad

Unwrapping the multi-level control, subordination mechanisms and their impact on refugees living in ITSs on the Lebanese-Syrian borderscape. 

13.05-13.25

Questions and Discussion

Session 3 – Local economies, megaprojects

14.00-14.30

Paul Hildreth

How place, institutions, and firms shape the Mersey Dee cross-border economy

14.30-15.00

Juan Alberti

The role of contractual risk management in the megaproject planning and appraisal process in Latin America

15.00-15.20

Questions and Discussion

15.30

Closing