For the final session in the symposium "PROBE 02" held from July 26-28,
2001, the participants and Japanese urban planners held a private warm up discussion.
Before the discussion of the issues in urban and regional development in Japan
at the session on the final day of Program B, this roundtable of these specialists
compared regions of Japan that are similar in scale to the Basque and ¯resund
regions to be discussed in Program B. The approaches the visiting lecturers used
in trying to read Japan's cities and regions and their points of view in the discussion
between the European and Japanese experts helped uncover a variety of issues and
problems in Japanese cities.
| Date: |
July 28, 2001 |
| MC: |
Akiko Okabe (Architect, Journalist) |
| Participants: |
Jordi Borja (Geographer, Urbanist / Spain)
Anton Kreukels (Sociologist, Professor of Utrecht University / Holland)
Peter Mehlbye (Consultant in spatial development and planning / Denmark)
Alfonso Vegara (Architect, Urban consultant / Spain)
Hitoshi Abe (Architect)
Toshio Mizuuchi (Assistant Professor, Osaka City University)
Yoshinori Morino (Journalist, Senior Staff Writer, Nihon Keizai Shimbun)
Yoshifumi Muneta(Associate Professor of Kyoto Prefectural University)
Hidetoshi Ohno (Architect, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Takashi Onishi (Professor, the University of Tokyo)
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For the final session of the symposium "PROBE 02" held from June 28-30,
2001, the participants and Japanese urban planners held a private warm up discussion.
Before the discussion of the issues concerning Japanese cities at the final session
of Program A, this roundtable of experts addressed how the visiting lecturers
from the Netherlands views Japanese cities, using specific development case studies.
The viewpoints that emerged prompted exchanges between Dutch and Japanese experts
that revealed a range of issues and problems in Japanese cities.
| Date: |
June 30, 2001 |
| MC: |
Moriko Kira (Architect) |
| Participants: |
Felix Claus (Architect [Claus en Kaan] / Holland)
Rients Dijkstra (Architect [Max.1] / Holland)
Kees van Ruyven (Executive Managing Director of Ij-Waterfront Development / Holland)
Mariet A. A. Schoenmakers (Head of Concept Development, MAB / Holland)
Hidetoshi Ohno (Architect, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Kei Minohara (Urban Planner)
Yoshifumi Muneta(Associate Professor of Kyoto Prefectural University)
Maki Ryu (Graduate of the Delft University of Technology, lives in Holland and works in its Urban Design Bureau <UrhahnUrbanDesign>)
Shizuo Sugiyama (Executive Director of Urban Planning Development, Umezawa Tadao & Partners Co.,Ltd.)
Masahiro Watahiki (General Manager, Advisory Staff of C.E.O, Mori Building Co.,Ltd.)
Riken Yamamoto (Architect)
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 Roundtable
featuring Alfonso Martinez Cearra
Bilbao, in Spain, has adopted a dynamic urban-planning strategy. Heralded as the
most successful effort of its king, the spectacular progress made in Bilbao in
recent years has made the city the focus of attention for city revitalization
efforts throughout Europe. Alfonso Martinez Cearra has played a key role in Bilbao
Metropolis 30, the core organization behind this effort, as one of the central
figures in planning the city industrial policy. His visit to Japan is a special
opportunity to learn more about Bilbao urban revitalization strategy and to exchange
opinions concerning its implications for city planning in Tokyo.
| Date: |
July 19, 2000 |
| MC: |
Yoshinori Morino (Senior Staff
Writer, Regional News Department, Editorial Bureau, Nihon Keizai Shinbun, Inc.) |
| Participants: |
Inigo Atzutegi (Director of
Economic Promotion and Innovation-Bizkaia County Council)
Jose Antonio Campos (Minister of Economic Development-Bizkaia County Council)
Alfonso Martinez Cearra(Director of Bilbao Metropoli-30)
Kazuhiko Abe (Director, Research Division, Research Institute for Urban & Environmental
Development, Japan)
Hitoshi Kawashima (Director for Planning of Greater Tokyo, General Planning Division,
Bureau of City Planning, Tokyo Metropolitan Government)
Shuji Mano (Manager, Location Promotion, Japan Regional Development Corporation)
Kei Minohara (Urban Planner)
Noriaki Okabe (Architect)
Mitsuhiro Usui (Deputy Director General, Project Department, Manufacturing & Technology
Sector, Development Bank of Japan) |
Roundtable
featuring Ton Schaap
Ton Schaap is a member of the special project team created by the Amsterdam City
Planning Bureau to plan development of Eastern Dockland and Ijburg. We took the
opportunity of Schaap's first visit to Japan to invite him to exchange opinions
with Japanese urban planners.
| Date: |
April 19, 2000 |
| MC: |
Kei Minohara (Urban Planner) |
| Participants: |
Ton Schaap (Urban Planner,Amsterdam
City Planning Bureau)
Michiko Inagaki (President, Felix Co.,Ltd., Planner / Architect,, Lecturer,Showa
Women's University)
Kenji Inoue (Bureau of City Planning, Kanagawa Prefecture)
Koen Klinkers (Student, Professor Ohno Laboratory, Department of Environmental
Studies Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Kazumi H. Kudo (Architect, Director, Coelacanth K&H Architects Inc.)
Hidetoshi Ohno (Professor, Department of Environmental Studies Graduate School
of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Hajime Yokobori (Urban Development Corporation) |
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