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Day One Day Two
Day One, Tuesday 18th April 2000
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
9:50
Professor Isam Zaabalawy
Chancellor, University of Sharjah
10:00
Keynote Speech
Dr Basil Al-Bustani
Senior Consultant, UNDP
10:15
Coffee Break
10:25
H.H Sheikh Dr Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qassimi
kindly inaugurates the Exhibition
11:00
End of Ceremony


Panel One - Day One
Emerging approaches to planning and urban development in Sharjah
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
11:25
Vision planning as a remedy for rapid urban development
Professor Ahmed Ouf

Faculty of Architecture, UAE University
11:50
Urban development and the importance of traffic impact study
Eng. Naseer Mahfood
Engineering Office, Sharjah Police Department
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
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
12:45
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
Panel Two - Day One
Vision Planning - Origin and Concept
Chair: Dr Saleh Al-Hathloul, Deputy Minister for Town Planning,
Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia
14:00
Vision Planning: From concept to plan
Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi

President, Caspian Associates INC, Princeton, USA
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
14:40
National development planning in Saudi Arabia
Dr Omar Mashabi

Advisor, Spatial Planning
Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia
15:00
Territorial control and physical planning: the case of Palestine.
Mr Oystein Gronning

Asplan Viak As, Sandvika, Norway
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
15:40
Discussion
16:00
Break
Panel Three - Day One
NSDP and Real Estate Markets
  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
16:40
NSDP - Competitive development of cities focussing on property investment
Dr Karen Sieracki

President Kaspar Associates, London, UK
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
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
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
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
18:20
Discussion
18:45
End of Day One
19:00
Shuttle Bus to Holiday Inn Hotel
20:30
Conference Dinner in Al Jazira Park, Sharjah
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