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Day One, Tuesday 18th April 2000
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8:30 |
Shuttle Bus from Holiday Inn Resort to University of Sharjah |
9:00 |
Registration |
9:30 |
Opening Ceremony - UAE National Anthem |
9:35 |
Recitation of The Holy Qu'ran |
9:40 |
Welcoming Remarks
Eng. Obaid Bin Ahmed Al-Tunaiji
Member of the Executive Council, Director General, Town Planning & Survey, Sharjah
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9:50 |
Professor Isam Zaabalawy
Chancellor, University of Sharjah
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10:00 |
Keynote Speech
Dr Basil Al-Bustani
Senior Consultant, UNDP
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10:15 |
Coffee Break |
10:25 |
H.H Sheikh Dr Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qassimi
kindly inaugurates the Exhibition |
11:00 |
End of Ceremony
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Panel One - Day One
Emerging approaches to planning and urban development in Sharjah
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Chair: Professor Isam Zaabalawy, Chancellor - University of Sharjah |
11:10 |
A Vision Plan for Sharjah
Eng. Obaid Bin Ahmed Al-Tunaiji
Member of the Executive Council, Director General, Town
Planning & Survey Directorate, Sharjah, UAE
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11:25 |
Vision planning as a remedy for rapid urban development
Professor Ahmed Ouf
Faculty of Architecture, UAE University
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11:50 |
Urban development and the importance of traffic impact study
Eng. Naseer Mahfood
Engineering Office, Sharjah Police Department
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12:15 |
Is there a contradiction between NSDP & Planning
according to cultural values?
Dr M Nabyl Chenaf
Chief Editor, l'ARCA Magazine of architecture, design and visual
communication
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12:35 |
Achievement of aesthetic and functional values in the
planning of the University City of Sharjah
Professor Mofid Samarai
College of Engineering, University of Sharjah
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12:45 |
Discussion
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13:00 |
Lunch
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Panel Two - Day One
Vision Planning - Origin and Concept
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Chair: Dr Saleh Al-Hathloul, Deputy Minister for Town Planning,
Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia
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14:00 |
Vision Planning: From concept to plan
Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi
President, Caspian Associates INC, Princeton, USA
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14:20 |
Vision and action for planning in the age of globalisation
Professor Gill-Chin Lim
Dean and Distinguished Institute Professor,
School of International Policy and Management, KDI, Seoul, South Korea
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14:40 |
National development planning in Saudi Arabia
Dr Omar Mashabi
Advisor, Spatial Planning
Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia
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15:00 |
Territorial control and physical planning: the case of Palestine.
Mr Oystein Gronning
Asplan Viak As, Sandvika, Norway
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15:20 |
Transnational co-operation on spatial planning
Professor Barry Redding
Professor of Real Estate Management,
Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank University, UK
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15:40 |
Discussion
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16:00 |
Break
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Panel Three - Day One
NSDP and Real Estate Markets
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Chair:Professor Lawrence Wood, Dean,
Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank University, UK |
16:20 |
Globalisation, real estate markets and urban development
strategies in central Europe
Dr Ali Parsa¹ & Dr Ramin Keivani²
¹Reader in Planning & Director of Property Research, South Bank
²Research Fellow, Faculty of the Built Environment, South Bank
University, UK
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16:40 |
NSDP - Competitive development of cities focussing on property investment
Dr Karen Sieracki
President Kaspar Associates, London, UK
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17:00 |
Global vision, market volatility and long term investment in
property: A case study of the Paris Left Bank Redevelopment
Mr Vincent Renard
CNRS - ADEF, Paris, France
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17:20 |
Global urban change: the impact of leisure and tourism on property markets
Dr Angus McIntosh
Director of European Research, Insignia Financial Group, UK
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17:40 |
Globalisation, city competitiveness, spatial planning and property markets
Professor Stanley McGreal. Professor of Property Research
School of Built Environment, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
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18:00 |
Global competition, real estate development and strategic urban planning
Dr Ludek Sykora
Department of Social Geography and Regional Development
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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18:20 |
Discussion
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18:45 |
End of Day One
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19:00 |
Shuttle Bus to Holiday Inn Hotel
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20:30 |
Conference Dinner in Al Jazira Park, Sharjah
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