UK-Japan Cities of the Future: Regeneration and Urban Life

13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP

Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Other seminars in this series:

21 January 2004

The Urban Environment: Redeveloping City Centres

Roger Madelin discussed the King’s Cross project in London, and Peter Carl and David Height discussed the planned redevelopment of the northern Osaka Station area.

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18 February 2004

Annual Seminar Series Seminar

Environmental Quality in the 21st Century City

The Commission held a seminar at the end of March 2004 to determine the exact focus of the study. Japan’s experience in transforming itself from an urban society with serious pollution problems to one which, with some exceptions, manages to combine high population densities with high standards of physical environmental quality, could well be relevant to the Commission’s interests.

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24 March 2004

Annual Seminar Series Seminar

The 21st Century Home: Quality of Life in the Urban Environment

What can Japan and the UK learn from each other about home-building – and what type of homes do people want in the 21st century? Can these homes be constructed in ways which minimise the impacts on the environment?

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28 April 2004

Annual Seminar Series Seminar

Getting Around the City: The Role of Transport and Infrastructural Issues

Probably every British person who has been to Japan, at some point finds him or herself crying out, ‘if only we had their rail and bus systems over here (but not their traffic jams)!’

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23 June 2004

Annual Seminar Series Seminar

At Ease in the City: Urban Lifestyles and the Pursuit of Leisure

In both Japan and the UK, work and leisure spaces are becoming increasingly integrated and urban life is adapting to accommodate the priorities of different generations as well as international influences.

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22 September 2004

Annual Seminar Series Seminar

Urban Renaissance in the UK and Japan

Major development projects, such as Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, have been the result of long-term planning and consultation exercises. How both the UK and Japan are formulating their visions for the future and how the government and private sectors are working together to realise those visions were the focus of the presentations.

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20 October 2004

Annual Seminar Series Seminar

Social Segregation and Urban Change in Japan

Professor Anthony Fielding, Professor David Cope and Hiroshi Saito discussed the issues of urban change in Japan, focussing on the problems of social segregation.

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