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Conference Information

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Objectives

China is undergoing an urban revolution. Underlying this are reforms in the system of urban housing provision and urban land tenure. The conference aims to provide a platform for scholars from various disciplines and all over the world to study the urban land and housing issues pertaining to current urban transformation in China.

Themes

• The political economy of the urban real estate market
• The role of planning in steering urban growth
• Housing and residential change
• Differential suburbanization of jobs and residence and implications for possible spatial mismatch
• Housing finance
• The socio-cultural meanings of the urban built environment.

Please send paper titles and abstracts in MS-Word format to the conference secretary, Miss Cammy Wu at curs@hkbu.edu.hk on or before 1 October 2007.

Venue

Lam Woo International Conference Centre 

Organizer and Conference Secretariat

The Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University

 Organizing Committee

	Prof. Si-ming Li, Chairman (Director, CURS and Chair Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University)
	Dr. Wang Donggen (Associate Director, CURS, and Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University)
	Dr Wing-Shing Tang, (Editor, CURS Occasional Papers, and Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University)

co-Organizers

 Conference Fee

The standard registration fee is US$155 (HK$1,200) per person, and student fee is US$77 (HK$600). The registration fee covers all conference sessions, conference package with abstracts, receptions and ceremonies, coffee/tea breaks, lunches, and the conference dinner.

 Accommodation

Accommodation facilities are available at the NTT International Guest House. Standard rooms (en suite) rate is about US$77 (HK$600) per night. Advanced booking through the Conference Secretariat is required. Please fill in the registration form  and send it back to curs@hkbu.edu.hk.

Enquiries

Please contact Miss Cammy Wu

Tel : (852) 3411-5061

Fax: (852) 3411-5990

Email : curs@hkbu.edu.hk

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