Managing Global City Regions
Name：
HAN Sunsheng
Nationality：
Canada
Academic Title：Professor
Home University
Melbourne University
（From）：
Email Address： sshan@unimelb.edu.au
Undergraduate Master Doctoral student
English
Students are expected to have knowledge and/or experience in economics, sociology,
public policy formulation, urban planning, and urban management before registering
this subject.
Teaching, cases analyzing and seminar
Presence and participation 70%
Final Examination 30%
2 credits
Dr Han Sun Sheng is a Professor and former Head of Urban Planning at The University
of Melbourne. His research expertise includes Pacific-Asia urban studies and spatial
analysis. Prof. Han has a B.Eng. degree in landscape architecture (Tongji U, China),
a M.Sc. degree in urban planning (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) and a
Ph.D. degree in urban and regional development (Simon Fraser University, Canada).
In his career Prof. Han worked as town planner for China's Ministry of Construction
(Beijing), UN Researcher for the United Nations Centre for Regional Development
(Nagoya), and a tenured Associate Professor for the National University of Singapore.
He is author of more than 100 publications in the forms of refereed journal articles,
edited books and journals, monographs, and conference papers. Prof. Han is a regular
reviewer for premium journals in urban and regional studies, and he sits in the
editorial board of Progress in Planning, Urban Planning International, GeoJournal,
and the Journal of Urban and Regional Planning.
This subject investigates the concept of global city region as a source of issues
that require new approaches for urban development decision-making. Emphases of the
discussions will be on the identification of global city regions, the economic and
social forces that shape their formation and change, and planning and management
responses to the dynamics of global city regions. The subject draws upon
international and Australian experiences in the development of the concept and in
the illustration of outcomes. Successful learning in the subject will involve an
effort to get to know and understand the character and planning issues confronting
metropolitan areas that experience global city development forces. Students are
encouraged to read widely about cities, drawing where possible on web pages of
planning agencies to capture recent policy debate.
1. Subject overview
2. The global city concept
3. Second tier cities
4. The idea of a global city region (GCR)
5. Economic activities in GCRs
6. Creativity and GCRs
7. GCRs as connected places
8. Tourism and GCR development
9. GCR planning issues
10. GCR management issues
11. GRC governance issues and case presentations
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