Asian Urban Futures Workshop
The Sustainable Urbanization Lab (SUL) hosted a vibrant Asian Urban Futures workshop, bringing together scholars and practitioners to discuss emerging challenges and opportunities in Asia's rapidly evolving cities.
Over the summer, we had a very vibrant “Asian Urban Futures” symposium in MIT Building 9, co-organized by Bogang Jun ‘s Research Center for Small Businesses Ecosystem” at Inha University 인하대학교 , and our MIT Center for Real Estate and MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning ‘s “Asia Real Estate Initiative”. We had so much interesting discussions about platform urbanism and dark kitchens in Seoul, Sugie Lee and Will Doerner ; new mega cities in China, Indonesia and Malaysia, Xusheng Huang and Li HOU; flash flood and urban resilience in Singapore, Hui Ying Pak and Steve Choi ; digital platform and risk capital, Jason Jackson and Lan Deng , e-commerce and urban commercial vibrancy in Seoul, Bogang Jun and Tingyu Zhou ; mobility networks and social interactions in cities, Esteban Moro and Sanglim Yoo ; GenAI and safety in Korea, Fábio Duarte and Jiyoung Lee ; capability analysis in economic development by Amy Glasmeier . So diverse but also inter-related topics! We also got many young scholars joining who are more and more interested doing some Asia cities research!
-Professor Siqi Zheng