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NEWS New ideas and activities Core interests and potential research topics: Asian cities, urban compactness; revitalization of urban community life; semi-public space; Southeast Asian Chinatown comparative study; land re-adjustment; urban planning and management vs climate change; development control in mega-cities; integrated planning and development; institutional change in urban management; urban housing profile; urban management performance...	Country Information Urban Development Trends & Challenges Contacts
Proposed new Initiatives/Ideas (Long Term): • The Forum as a core network for other future networks and collaboration • The Forum promotes knowledge transfer and education • The Forum promotes collaboration and exchange activities among member institutions • The Forum promotes more early- and mid-career participants • The Forum can possibly be developed as German-Southeast Asian Society of Urban Studies How to strengthen the Forum country group? What kind of formats to strengthen the group? • Creating mailing list for Vietnamese "alumni" of the Forum, Facebook page, etc. (Creating database in the mailing list so that every member can access) • Finding potential candidates for the next sessions (E.g. Le Viet HA-Architect & CEO of ASHUI Corp.; Pham Thuy LOAN-Lecture of NUCE Hanoi; Nguyen Thi NA-Lecturer of HCM University of Technologies...Nguyen Anh TUAN, lecturer of HCMC Architecture University; Pham Tuan KHANH-Department of architecture and planning of HCM...) • Organizing occasional meetings (Orientation for new comers, info exchange, and friendship strengthening...) • Linking with DAAD Summer Schools, with student research groups of NUCE Hanoi • Connecting with DAAD office in Vietnam • Connecting with other networks that may share certain common interests • PR-ing and disseminating the network results (Publications, online publications, conferences...)
Proposal for small research activities (Other possible topic rather than "Urban public space" for future topics) Urbanization and sustainable development; Urbanization and urban management; livable city; compact city; Asian urbanism; urban regeneration and revitalization; urbanization and climate change; urban poor and social housing; urbanization and migration; urban agriculture and food security; urban morphology, urban footprint; family change and gender issues; public life and community life; natural resources security; urban sprawl and water resource management... Interest in publications: - Books - Journal papers & articles - E-newspapers, websites