April – May 2022
Professor Shenjing He was invited by the Department of Geography and Research Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to deliver an online research seminar, titled “The Rise of Education-Featured Gated Communities in Chinese Cities: (Re)producing the Enterprising Self via the Entrepreneurial Local State-Capital Nexus” on 14 April 2022.
Professor Anthony Yeh has reported the following patents that are output of the HKU Team (Professor Anthony Yeh, Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Dr Frank Xue, Department of Real Estates and Construction) in the Guangdong Key Area Research Scheme of Guangdong Science &Technology Department, “Application of Virtual Reality in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Heritage Conservation”, with OKayGIS Company, Shenzhen University, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong Museum, Guangdong Heritage Archaeology Research Institute, and Guangdong Kaizhi Cultural Heritage Conservation Research Institute:
Another output is a website of “360 Virtual Tours of Heritage Buildings in Hong Kong”.
Dr Kyung-min Nam delivered an invited, online seminar, entitled “Uneven Population Distribution and Low Fertility: Focusing on the Role of Regional Policy” on 14 April 2022. This seminar was organized by KyungHee University (Seoul, Korea) as part of the Brain Korea 21 AgeTech-Service International Seminar Series, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
It is our honour and pleasure to share the good news with you regarding the results of 2022 ESRI Young Scholars Award (YSA 2022). Our students have achieved excellent results again this year:
Award | Student | Programme / Year of Study |
Project |
1st Runner-up | Mr Chu Chit Hei, Sebastian | BAUS/Year 3 | Smart Redevelopment |
2nd Runner-up | Mr Chan Chun Ping, Dieter | BAUS/Year 3 | Charging for the Future? |
1st Runner-up (Group Application) |
Mr Hui Chun Yin Mr Lu Zhi Mao Mr Ng Chun Hin |
MUA/Year 1 | Urban Renewal of Mong Kok |
Best Story Map Design | Ms Chan Yi Man | BAUS/Year 3 | Development of Smart environment in Hong Kong |
Best Use of Open Data | Mr Hui Chun Yin Mr Lu Zhi Mao Mr Ng Chun Hin |
MUA/Year 1 | Urban Renewal of Mong Kok |
Event:
18/05
CUSUP Webinar Series
From “Village-in-flows” to “Town-in-flows”: Urbanization of China in Mobile Internet Era從流鄉村到流城鎮:移動互聯網時代的中國城鎮化
HKU-USF Distinguished Professor Webinar Series
Between the Colossal and the Catastrophic: Planetary Urbanization and the Political Ecologies of Emergent Infectious Disease
04/05
CUSUP Webinar Series
The Role of Housing Management Industry in Construction of Smart City
27/04
HKU-USF Distinguished Professor Webinar Series
The Emergence of Data Rich Urban Science and Its Consequences for Planning
27/04
RPG Seminar
Human Mobility in Response to Environmental Hazards in China: New Approaches to Environmental Inequalities
22/04
CUSUP Webinar Series
From Poverty Alleviation to Rural Revitalization: Strategy, Policy and Institutional Arrangement