INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON URBANISM 2009 (IFoU) AT DELFT OF UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY,THE NETHERLANDS

On 25-28 November 2009, I have a chance to present my PhD research at international conference in Delft University of Technology. I was so honoured to meet Prof Saskia Sassen (The Idea of Global City) from Columbia University, New York and Prof Manuel Castells (The Idea of Network Society) from Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Both of them are the main the speakers for the conference. The both icons are among my core research references . So many people want to meet them. During the coffee break I met them and discuss my research framework. The discussion so fruitful with the ideas how to enhance my research. Sassen and Castells suggested to me to search the concept of City for People vs City of People, Complementary City vs Competitive City and Network Society in the City vs Network City for Society. Their supportative and encouragement really boost my motivation to enhance my research. Thanks to my supervisor Assco Prof Dr Hamzah Jusoh, Dr Jalaluddin and Assoc Prof Dr Hazita Azman, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM for supporting my research and funding my attendance to the conference.

ASSIGNMENTS DATELINE

I have gave a chance to do a few assignments under module 09GYP005 which related to my research. The lenght of the assignments are 6 pages. The content and format presentation are related to the high impact journal format. It's must be analytical and synthesis about the literature reviews and focus the question.

Block 1 : An Introduction to Key Debates and Issues in Globalization by Dr Ed Brown

Assignment : The idea of globalization is too broad to be of much use in forming our understanding of the development challenges facing Southern countries in the 21 st century. To what extend do you agree with is assertion? Your answer should combine a general discussion of the utility of the ideas of globalization with a detailed case study of one particular country.

Dateline : Friday 13th November, 12 noon

Block 2 : Imperial Geopolitics in a Globalizing World by Prof Dr David Slater

Assignment : Discuss the key feastures of imperial politics in today's globalizing world

Dateline : Friday 27th November 2009, 12 noon

Block 3 : Regions and Cities in Globalization

Part A : In What Sense a Regional World? By Dr John Harrison

Assignment : Regions are the fundamental building blocks of an increasingly post-national and globally interconnected modern world. Discuss

Dateline : Friday 11th December 2009, 12 noon

Part B : Cities and Globalization by Prof Dr Peter Taylor

Assignment : Consider in which ways Janes Jacobs' ideas on moral syndromes might enhance the thesis advanced in Global City-Regions and Cities in a World Economy

Dateline : Friday 11th December 2009, 12 noon

Block 4 : Financial Globalization by Dr Jonathan Cloke

Assignment : Are economic crises inevitable?

Dateline : Friday 15th January 2010, 12 noon

Interview with Jane Jacobs

Interview with Jane Jacobs

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THE END OF DISCOURSE SESSIONS WITH PROF DR PETER TAYLOR

Beginning from 14 October 2009 until 11 November 2009, I am so lucky enough to have a fruitful discourses with Prof Dr Peter Taylor (I namely him as THE GURU OF WORLD CITY NETWORK). The weekly session with him started from 11 am until 12 noon is so meaningful for my research. I really gain a new knowledge about urban economic, city competitiveness and urban-region. His horizon ideas, vision and wisdom about urban development in the past, current and the future really motivate me to keep finding deeper about my PhD research. Here are a few topics that we discussed during my session with him.

14 October 2009

• NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT ABU DHABI AS EMERGING GLOBAL CITY

21 October 2009

• THE ECONOMY OF CITY : HOW NEW WORK BEGINS
• CITIES WITHIN SPACES OF FLOWS
• JANE JACOBS (1916-2006) AN APPRECIATION
• EXPLOSIVE CITY GROWTH IN THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM

28 October 2009

• PRIMACY OF CITIES IN THE EXPANSION OF ECONOMIC LIFE
• PROBLEMATIZING CITY/STATE RELATION
• SPACE AND SUSTAINBILITY : THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL SPACES THROUGH CITY-WORK

11 November 2009

• EXTERNAL URBAN RELATIONAL PROCESS : INTRODUCING CENTRAL FLOW THEORY TO COMPLEMENT CENTRAL PLACE THEORY
• URBAN ECONOMICS IN THRALL TO CHRISTALLER : A MISGUIDED SEARCH FOR CITY HIERARCHIES IN EXTERNAL URBAN RELATIONS

The findings of the above discussion I will explore in my PhD research. For next week my discourses will be with Dr John Harrison. Our discussion will focus more on urban governance. The topic and detail of our discussion, I will inform later in my next blog.

09GYP005 GLOBALIZATION: KEY DEBATES AND ISSUES WITH DR JOHN HARRION - REGIONAL WORLD

Beginning 9 November 2009, Dr John Harrison will take over the globalization module on the topic REGIONAL WORLD. The objective of this section is to assess the role of regions in globalization. Against the backdrop of accounts heralding the transition to a ‘borderless’ world made up of transnational flows of knowledge and capital, a body of literature known as ‘the new regionalism’ appropriates how in globalization regions have become more, not less, important in a global era. This section will look at the distinction between ‘new regional spaces’ and ‘new spaces of regionalism’. This will be done through reading-centred seminars.

As well as specific readings for each session, there is one key reading for the block which is:

· Jones, M and MacLeod, G (2004) ‘Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics, and the English question’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29, 433–452.

Session One: New regional spaces

This session will focus on the importance of regional economies in the global era. The readings to be discussed in the session are:

· Storper, M (1997) The Regional World – Territorial Development in a Global Economy. Guildford: New York [Chapter 1 – The resurgence of regional economies, 10 years later (pp. 3-25)]

· Jones, M and MacLeod, G (2007) ‘Territorial, scalar, networked, connected: ‘In what sense a ‘regional world’?’ Regional Studies, 41, 1177-91.

Session Two: New spaces of regionalism

This session will focus on the notion of ‘region building’ in the global era. The reading to be discussed in the session is:

· Paasi, A (2001) 'Europe as a social process and discourse - Considerations of place, boundaries and identity.' European Urban and Regional Studies, 8, 7-28.

Dr John Harrison has done put together some questions which should help us to focus on what we need to take away from the readings. Try to answer the questions as best we can (some are easier than others and he has tried to put page numbers so we can see where in the article the answer lies). We will be using these papers, and in particular the questions/answers to guide discussion/debate in the seminar next week, so it is important that have read them and attempted to answer the questions.