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Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion
5 Aug 2022 | 12:00–13:15 (UTC+8) | Zoom |
Speakers
Prof. Hendrik Tieben
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Director, School of Architecture, CUHK
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Prof. Miodrag Mitrašinović
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Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Parsons School of Design,
The New School, United States
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung
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Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science and HKIAPS, CUHK
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Policy Research @ HKIAPS presented a webinar on the “Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion” on 5 August 2022. The two speakers, Prof. Hendrik Tieben and Prof. Miodrag Mitrašinović, discussed recent trends in public space in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) that have emerged in the context of the region’s rapid urban development. They also shared insights from public space studies gained during the pandemic.
Prof. Mitrašinović pointed out that public space is a significant and timely subject for scholars and professionals working in China today. It has been an important catalyst for the emergence of the public realm in the GBA, which can be framed as a proper analytical unit. In addition, public space must be studied and conceptualized across the differentiated scales and organized levels of the GBA megaregion. He also believes that public space should be considered inseparable from other arenas in which “public” is simultaneously constituted.
He particularly addressed the circumstances under which the framework of public space can be viewed as a relevant and coherent analytical unit in the context of megaregionalism and vis-à-vis the emerging GBA megaregion. On the one hand, the megaregionalism of the GBA is a national strategy focused on governance, economy, planning, and urban policy, and operationalized through production of the megaregional space. On the other hand, GBA megaregionality is an ongoing process of producing megaregional geographies operationalized through production of the spaces in or of the megaregion. These concepts contribute to understanding the everyday negotiation and struggle of ordinary people between common shared public spaces in the region. Megaregional public space (tmps) is a catalyst for the realignment of governance, economic development, and infrastructure in the GBA. The public spaces in the GBA megaregion (psmr) are a medium of resistance to the twin meta-narratives of globalization and urbanization, but are also a vehicle for organizing the communitarian, social, and civic through an increasingly design-led tactical sub-regionalism. Together, they configure what we call the emerging public realm of the GBA megaregion.
To complete the presentation, Prof. Tieben added his views on emerging approaches to public spaces in Hong Kong. During the pandemic, many public space infrastructures limited their operations. However, during this time communities and the HKSAR government presented new approaches to successfully improve public spaces in Hong Kong, showing new forms of public space making and solid connections between citizens. He also suggested areas relating to their usage that could be further explored, such as the paradigm shift in urban development and how public spaces and cities in the GBA can further fire the imagination of people on the future of the GBA.
About 40 local and regional participants attended the webinar.
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Organizer
Policy Research @ HKIAPS, CUHK
Co-sponsor
Global China Research Programme, CUHK
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