Seminar on 28 Feb 2013 (Thu): Global Power City Index 2012 – Power of the Inner-Cities

Topic: Global Power City Index 2012 – Power of the Inner-Cities

Speakers:
Prof. Hiroo Ichikawa
Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Governance Studies Meiji University, Japan

Ms. Chiharu Hirota
Institute for Urban Strategies, the Mori Memorial Foundation Japan

Schedule:
Date: 28 Februar, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 12:45 – 14:00
Venue: Room 829, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

Abstract
A strategic tool for assessment of urban competitiveness, the Global Power City Index (GPCI), produced by the Institute for Urban Strategies at the Mori Memorial Foundation, is the first city ranking in Japan to use a new type of methodology. It is now recognized as one of the major city indexes in the world. Findings on GPCI 2012 will be discussed in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of cities researched. Leading cities in the world such as London, New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong will be focused to reveal their hidden power in the inner areas of the cities.

About the Speakers
Hiroo Ichikawa, PhD is currently Dean at the Professional Graduate Schools and Dean at the Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. He is also an Executive Director at Mori Memorial Foundation. He majors urban policy, urban and regional planning and risk management. He has been appointed as chairmen and committee members of Japanese national and local governments such as Urban Planning Council.

He is an author of Future Urban Strategy for Tokyo (2012), Lessons from Japanese Disaster (2011), Creating Japan’s Future (2010), Global Front Tokyo: Achieving its world leading status (2007), Urban Space as Culture (2007), Encyclopedia of Metropolitan Tokyo (2002), The Conflicting Futures of the Tokyo Metropolitan Region (2001), Future of Tokyo as Matured Society (1998), Objecting the Relocation of Capital Function (1999), Tokyo’s Future reformed by Relocation of Capital and Decentralization (1995), A City of Attractive Diversity and Flexible Form (1994), and Future of World Cities and their Development of
Infrastructure – New York, London and Paris (1992).

Chiharu Hirota is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Urban Strategies, the Mori Memorial Foundation. She holds a Master of Science from the Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Her current main projects are Global Power City Index and Global Power Metropolitan-Area Index.

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