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Saturday, February 12

Border Dialectics

Transcultural City Building in the Borderlands. Caitlin Cahill, City University of New York

‘We are the Fruit Bowl:’ Place, Cultural Identity and Social Ties among Immigrant Residents in Public Housing. Lynne Manzo, University of Washington

Boundary Dialectics and Spatial Narratives of Cultural Ecotones – Surveying the Cultural Niches of Keelung’s Hoping Island. Min Jay Kang, National Taiwan University

Placemaking by Others

Interpreting Muslim Chicago: Reading the Physical Spaces of Devon Avenue, Chicago. Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

The Korean Diaspora in Philippine Cities – Amalgamation or Invasion? José Edgardo Gomez, Jr., University of Philippines

 

 

 

Tracing the Ethos of the Sino-Burmese in the Urban Fabric of Yangon (Rangoon), Burma. Jayde Lin Roberts, University of Washington

Ideologia y Los de Abajo (Ideology and The Underdogs): Two Cultures of Sustainability Within the Present City of Las Vegas. Daniel Ortega, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Placemaking at the Margins

From a Marginalized Chinatown to an Asianized Global Village: A Case Study of the Socio-spatial Transformations in Kampung Kanthan in the Perak Region of Malaysia. Shenglin Elijah Chang and Yenchew Foo, National Taiwan University

Placing Sovereignty in the Hiatus of Urban Landscape: Case Study of Little Indonesia in
Taipei. Hung-Ying Chen, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives

The Brick Door: Perypheralization and Other Roman Stories. Lorenzo Rinelli, University of Hawai’I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcultural Public Space

Placemaking as a Right to the City: Brazilian Restaurants in Tokyo & Cosmopolitan Practices. Vera Zambonelli, University of Hawai’I

The Transcultural Production of Space: Making “Little Shanghai” in Sydney. Duanfang Lu, University of Sydney

Reception of Public Space by Newly Arrived Persons from Chinese Mainland and Local Residents of Hong Kong. Kin Wai Michael Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Landscapes of Difference: Race and Ethnic Diversity and the Changing Form of Suburbia. Willow Lung Amam, University of California, Berkeley

Sunday, February 13

Space of Engagement

From a Neighborhood of Strangers to a Political Community of Fate: The Case of Market Creek Plaza. Michael Rios, University of California, Davis

 

 

Creating Political and Social Spaces for Immigrant Integration: A Case Study. Trinh Mai and Kimberly Schmit, University of Utah

Urban Agriculture As Agro-Cultural Producer. Adam Prince, San Francisco Art Institute

Children should be the Architects and Planners of Our 21st Century Cities. Alex Gilliam, Public Workshop

Space of Negotiation

17th and South Jackson: Relocating CASA Latina and Navigating Cultural Crossroads in Seattle. Pam Emerson and Jeff Hou, University of Washington

Space of Sociality in Multi-ethnic Ethnoscapes: Cambodia Town Neighborhood, Long Beach, California. Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, University of Southern California

The Death and Life of Jian-Cheng Circle: An Inclusive Local Place Versus Exclusive Global Modernity. Chin-Wei Chang and Chu-Joe Hsia, National Taiwan University

 

Medium of Understanding

Everyday Places that Connect Disparate Homelands: a Methodology of Remembering through the City. Clare Rishbeth, University of Sheffield

The Spatial Context of Physical Activity of Latino Children: A Lancaster Case Study. Mallika Bose and Kirk Dimond, Pennsylvania State University

Learning from “Open Space Honduras”: Can International Service Learning Help Develop Culturally Competent Urban Designers? Samuel Dennis, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Our Sawah: Developing Cross-cultural Proficiencies through Participatory Filmmaking. Kevin Thompson, University of Florida