KEYNOTE SPEECH

Chinrong, Lin

Deputy Mayor, Taipei City Government  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Urban and Regional Studies, Public policy analysis, Community development, Architectural planning and analysis, Landscape and space theorise, Preservation of cultural heritage

EDUCATION

 MIT research (college of architecture and planning department of urban studies and planning - urban and regional studies program)

 Master of Engineering, Institute of Industrial Project Culture University

 Chun yuan college of Science and Engineering

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

 Deputy Chief Engineer, Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Governmemt

 Secretary, Department of Urban Development, Hsinchu City

 Secretary, Public Works Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government

 Secretary, Department of Urban Development, Kaohsiung City Government

 Director General, Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior

 Deputy Mayor, Tainan City Government

 Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chiao Tung University

Qizhi, Mao

Prof., Tsinghua University  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Urban History and Theory, Urban-Rural Planning and Design, RS/GIS/VR Application in Urban-Rural Planning, Urban Infrastructure and Planning

EDUCATION

 Doctor of Engineering in Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 1997

 Master of Infrastructure Planning, Centre for Infrastructure Planning, University of Stuttgart, 1989

 Master of Engineering in Urban Planning, Department of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 1985

 Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture, Civil Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, 1982

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

 Vice President, World Society for Ekistics (WSE)

 Academician, International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS)

 Deputy Director, International Cooperation Committee, China Architecture Society

 Consultant, Rural and Urban Planning Consultative Committee, China Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

 Deputy Director, Urban-Rural Planning Standardization Technological Committee, China Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

 Deputy Director, Urban-Rural Planning Specialty Steering Committee of the National Colleges and Universities, China Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

 Standing Director, China Society for Urban Studies, and Deputy Director of Historic and Cultural City Committee

 Deputy Director, Key Laboratory of Eco Planning & Green Building, Ministry of Education, China

 Vice President, Beijing Society for Urban Science Studies, and Head of Historic and Cultural City Committee

 The State Certified Urban Planner

 Associate Chief Editor, China City Planning Review (Executive)

 Standing Chief Editor, Yearly Report on China Urban Development

 Member of Editorial Board, Urban Studies

Taeheon, Moon

Prof., Gyeongsang National University  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Urban Planning, Land Use Planning, Smart City, Planning Support System, Regional Development, Computer Application on Urban Planning, Spatial Modeling and Simulation

EDUCATION

 Ph.D., Department of Architecture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Mar. 1993

 M.S., Department of Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1989

 B.S., Department of Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1986

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

 Director, The Institute for University-Industry Collaboration Policy 

 Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, College of Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Mar. 1, 2006- present

 Associate Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Mar. 1, 1991-2005

 Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Mar. 1, 1997-2001

 Lecturer, Department of Urban Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Mar. 1, 1995-Feb.1997

Kyungjin, Zoh

Prof., Seoul National University  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Landscape Design Theory, Open Space Planning, Public Space Design

EDUCATION

 University of Pennsylvania Urban and Regional Planning Studies

 Graduated from Seoul National University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture and Ecology

 Graduated from Seoul National University Landscape Architecture

INTRODUCTION

Kyung-Jin Zoh who was born in Seoul, studied landscape architecture at Seoul. National University and completed his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor of Graduate School of Environment Studies, Seoul National University. He wrote and edited many books on contemporary landscape in Korea while participating in many public landscape projects. During last ten years, he has served in Seoul Green Trust and he works as an executive director. He won the design competition for Seoul Forest Park with Dongsimwon Landscape Design in 2003. Now he works as both a chief director of park and green space in Seoul Metropolitan City and a master planner of Seoul Botanical Park.

Tsuyoshi Honjo

Prof., Chiba University  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Thermal Effect of Urban Green Areas: Visualization of Landscape by Computer Graphics; Plant Modeling; Computerized Production Support Systems in Protected Cultivation; Agricultural Information Systems ; Internet Applications for Agriculture and Landscape Architecture

EDUCATION

 Ph.D., Department of Agricultural Engineering, The University of Tokyo, April, 1990

 M.S., Department of Agricultural Engineering, The University of Tokyo, March, 1982

 B.S., Department of Agricultural Engineering, The University of Tokyo, March, 1980

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

 Apr. 1, 2007 - present Professor, Environmental Science & Landscape Architecture Course, Graduate School of Horticulture 

 Oct. 1, 2002 - Mar. 31, 2007 Professor, Department of Environmental Science & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Horticulture

 Apr. 1, 1997 - Sept. 31, 2002 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology

 Apr. 1, 1991 - Mar. 31, 1997 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science and Technology, School of High-Technology for Human Welfare, Tokai University

 Apr. 1, 1984 - Mar. 31, 1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, The University of Tokyo