At the invitation of Professor Yang Yongchun and Dr. Wang Yuliang of the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University and the Key Laboratory of Western China's Ministry of Environment and Education, Professor Gu Kai from the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will give an academic exchange and online academic report on November 10, 2022. All teachers and students are welcome to attend!

Speaker: Professor Gu Kai, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Topic: Planning Reforms in China and New Zealand: A Comparison

Host: Professor Yang Yongchun, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

Time: November 10, 2022 (Thursday), 9:30-11:30

Tencent Conference Number: 789-327-831

Expert Introduction:

Following research appointments at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the University of Waterloo, Canada, Dr. Kai Gu moved to the University of Auckland in 2006. He is now working at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He served as Secretary-General of the International Seminar on Urban Form between 2010 and 2018 and a member of the Editorial Board of 5 international journals. Most of his work, including some 80 publications, are on urban morphology and planning. His field-based urban research has been funded by the British Academy, the British Economic and Social Research Council, the Canadian International Development Agency and the Natural Science Foundation of China.

Report Introduction:

China is undergoing a major planning reform. The aspirations of the new planning system include sustainable development through ecological modernization, better cross-sector coordination in planning and standardization in plan-making and management. The major planning reform in China is facing both theoretical and professional challenges. New Zealand has experienced a similar planning reform and established environment-effect-based (or environment-performance-based) planning in the 1990s. Based on the discussion of the issues and challenges facing planners in New Zealand, this presentation seeks new conceptual and practical bases for reorienting current planning mechanisms in ways that are fundamental to the proposed planning reform process in China.

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