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MEDAN, INDONESIA

FRIENDLYCITY ON RESEARCH TO IMPLEMENTATION

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR 01-02/11/2017

When a decentralized system of government began to be developed in Indonesia through decentralization, city and county governments held most strategic role in the management of the city. Increasingly complex city problems such as social, economic, cultural and physical, are demanding a more comprehensive solution concept. One of the concepts that are considered relevant as a solution to the complexity of urban problems today is the idea of ​​a friendly city. Friendly city is an ideal picture of a city that every life of people well-accommodated, comfortable and fair in city spaces. The idea of ​​the friendly city has become essential to be a discourse in relation to the Medan’s anniversary moment that has been aged more than four and a half centuries.  In realizing this ideal pedestrian vision need Test Case. In this case the issues that raised as an example is the planning, structuring and managing the pedestrian. The background of the election is because the pedestrian is a city level that contact with people daily but still has not received serious attention.

A forum for discussion of the friendly city has ever seminar on the International Seminar 1st Friendly City: Towards a Friendly City, as part of One Decade Anniversary of Architecture at the University of Sumatera Utara November 2001; International Seminar 2nd Friendly City: Urban Development Management for Friendly City in 2003; and International Seminar 3rd Friendly City: Friendly City for Urban Tourism in 2011. As a continuation of the seminar, Architecture Graduate Program Magister USU cooperate with the government of Medan intends to organize International Seminar on Friendly City: Research to Implementation. The seminar aims to collect a variety of positive thoughts about the management of developing friendly city, especially to apply the concept to the real problems of urban in various parts of the world today. For that much needed donations thoughts and experiences of practitioners of government that will be combined with conceptual theories by experts. Thus it is expected will be obtained a more comprehensive and applicable problem-solving framework.

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GENERAL PURPOSE

• As the media to gather ideas of the tourism management for the friendly city
• As a medium for sharing experiences in management of urban development, particularly from practitioners of governance in various parts of the world
• As a medium to unite the theory of experts with real experience from government practitioners.

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INVITED A SPEAKER

	Prof. BRENDA S.A. YEOH DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY National University of Singapore 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 ​ Dr Brenda S.A. Yeoh read geography at Cambridge and went on to complete her doctorate at Oxford University. She also holds a Diploma-in-Education from the Institute of Education, Singapore. She leads the research cluster on Asian Migration at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and she also has considerable experience working on a wide range of migration research in Asia, including key themes such as cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, social reproduction and care migration; migration, national identity and citizenship issues; globalising universities and international student mobilities; and cultural politics, family dynamics and international marriage migrants. geoysa@nus.edu.sg Â
	Professor Peter Rimmer AM peter.rimmer@anu.edu.auBA (hons), MA (Manchester), PhD (Canterbury), Grad Cert Education (Cambridge), DLitt (ANU)​ Specialisation: transport, communications, Asian urban/regional development Professor Peter Rimmer is an economic geographer who specialises in urban and regional development within the Asian-Pacific Rim with a particular emphasis on the role of communications and transport (road, rail, sea and air). He has undertaken research work in China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. He has completed an economic history of Southeast Asia with Associate Professor Howard Dick (University of Melbourne) which has examined the impact of technological change on city systems and systems of cities within Southeast Asia since 1850. They have also collaborated on a second text on re-thinking the city in Southeast Asia which explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigm of the Third World City by examining patterns, processes and policy. Currently, he is working on a study of global and local logistics, with a particular emphasis on Asian-Pacific perspectives. This study stems from the period when he was resident in Korea as the Hanjin Shipping Chair Professor of Global Logistics in the Graduate School of Logistics at Inha University, Incheon.  Â
	Prof. j.kenworthy BSc. (Hons), PhD Murdoch.​Jeff Kenworthy has spent 33 years in the transport and urban planning field and currently teaches courses and supervises postgraduate students in urban sustainability fields.He is co-author (with Peter Newman, Felix Laube and others) of a number of books.These include: Cities and Automobile Dependence: An International Sourcebook, a major study comparing 32 cities in Asia, North America, Australia and Europe; Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence; An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities, 1960-1990; Back On Track: Rethinking Transport Policy in Australia and New Zealand; Winning Back the Cities.

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AVAILABLE TOPICS

• Architectural Theory and Critic
• Building Technology
• Development Studies
• Economic Growth and Development
• Heritage and Built Environment
• Human and Society
• Organization and Management
• Physical Environment
• Quality of Lifes
• Patial Change & Geographic Information Technologies
• Sustainable Built Environment
• Town Planning

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VENUE
​Grand Aston City Hall Hotel and Serviced Residences Medan​

Phone(62-61) 4557 000​

Address Jl. Balai Kota No. 1 Medan 20112

Sumatera Utara - Indonesia

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