LIN Zhongjie

Prof. Zhongjie Lin is a scholar and practitioner of urbanism. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning and Head of Urban Design Concentration at Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a co-founding director of Futurepolis, an awarding-winning international planning and design consulting firm. Prof. Lin’s research focuses on urban design, ecological urbanism, utopianism, and Asian architecture and urbanism. 

Topic: China's New Town Movement in the 21st Century

 Harry den Hartog

Harry den Hartog is an urban designer and researcher, who founded his own research & design Studio Urban Language in 2004 in Rotterdam. He did a lot of research on new town developments and waterfronts transformations. Since 2012 he’s a faculty member at Tongji University in Shanghai, College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Topic: Cultural and Spatial Appropriation and Transformation of the Planned Structure