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Global Cities in a Global Village - The City, the State and the International System

International Conference

Conference Report
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The conference will bring togehter experts and city representatives from diefferent parts of the world (Austria, Japan, Spain, Turkey, USA) and provide a forum for discussions on the changing, role played by so-called cities within the broader framework of rapidly changing, globalizing world.

Welcome
Otmar HÖLL, oiip
Rudi SCHICKER, Executive City Councillor for Urban Development, Traffic and Transport

Keynote: "The Return of the City-State?"
Saskia SASSEN, Columbia University
Chair: Hakan AKBULUT, oiip

Panel I: "World (Dis)Order in the 21st Century: A Farewell (in)to the Middle Ages?"
Ulrich BRAND, University of Vienna
Christof PARNREITER, University of Hamburg
Saskia SASSEN, Columbia University
Chair: Heinz GÄRTNER, oiip

Panel II: "The Autonomy and Anatomy of the Global City - The Practioner's View"
Nafiz Eyüp KORKUT, City of Istanbul
Andreas LAUNER, City of Vienna
Akira TAGUCHI, Hokkai Gakuen University
Chair: Alexandra VOGL, TINA VIENNA

20 October 2010
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Haus der Industrie, kleiner Festsaal
Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1030 Wien

This conference is supported by the Federal Ministry of Science and Researchthe, the Japan Foundation, Stadt Wien and TINA VIENNA Urban Technologies & Strategies.

With special thanks to the Federation of Austrian Industries for providing the venue.

Programme