We will hold OECD International Symposium on "Enhancing City Attractiveness for the Future" on 2 and 3 June 2005, in the city of Nagoya, Japan as set out the information below.
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Hosted by:
○OECD
○Committtee of OECD International Symposium, Nagoya, Aichi
　Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Government of Japan
　Aichi Prefecture
　City of Nagoya
　Urban Renaissance Agency, Japan
　Chubu Economic Federation
　Nagoya Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Overview:
The attractiveness of a city has been increasingly regarded as a key factor to maintain and strengthen its competitiveness in an era of global competition and knowledge-based economies.
With the purpose of exploring the opportunities that policies to enhance city attractiveness could provide to urban economic regeneration, the OECD International Symposium in Nagoya, Aichi will be held with the theme of “Enhancing City Attractiveness for the Future.”
The symposium will be held on 2 and 3 June 2005, back to back with the annual session of the Working Party on Territorial Policy in Urban Areas of the OECD Territorial Development Policy Committee on 1 June. The symposium aims to provide new ideas that OECD member countries can share with one another to address issues in their cities.

Thursday, 2 June

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-10:10

Opening Remarks
Susumu Hasumi, Senior Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan
Odile Sallard, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Masaaki Kanda, Governor, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Takehisa Matsubara, Mayor, City of Nagoya, Japan

10:10-10:30

Special Speech
Jose Luis Mendez Romeu, Secretario de Estado de Cooperacion Territorial, Ministerio de Administraciones Publicas, Spain(State Secretary of Territorial Cooperation, Ministry of Public Administration)

10:30-12:00

Keynote Speeches
Shosaburo Kimura, President, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Japan
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan

Leo van den Berg, Professor, Department of Regional, Port, and Transport Economics,
Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:40

Session 1: Strategies for Enhancing Attractiveness
A city's attractiveness is determined by a wide range of elements. OECD member countries are implementing various measures to enhance their cities’ attractiveness based on their own history, cultural assets, and excellent landscape. Session 1 will focus on the strategic aspects of policies for enhancing attractiveness. Topics will cover various strategic issues, including city-centre redevelopment, cultural policy, the role of events, city promotion and infrastructure.

Key Issues for discussion:
"What factors are keys in successful strategies that had considerable impact on local economic structures and succeeded in achieving the long-term goal of modernising city economies?
"What policies are effective in promoting linkages with existing local economies to diffuse growth momentum to wider areas?
"What measures are necessary to complement centre-pillar projects of physical renovation and culture-led regeneration programmes?

(Coordinator)
Adam Ostry, Director General, Cities Secretariat, Privy Council Office, Canada
(Urban Working Party, OECD)

(Discussion Panel)
Kyu-Bang Lee, President, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea
Alfonso Martinez Cearra, Director, the Association BILBAO METROPOLI 30, Spain
Yukio Nishimura, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
Akiko Okabe, Assistant Professor, Chiba University, Japan

15:40-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-18:10

Session 2: Ensuring Sustainability of City Attractiveness for the Future
Enhancement of urban attractiveness is a continuous and long-term process of building up policy efforts, not simply a one-off, "quick-fix" operation. Hence, economic, environmental and social sustainability should form strategic pillars in planning policies to enhance city attractiveness. Session 2 will cover such issues as sustainable urban environment and social cohesion as factors of city attractiveness.

Key Issues for discussion:
" How should sustainability be incorporated into urban regeneration programmes?
" How could the best policy mix be achieved in formulating urban regeneration policies so that economic, social and environmental issues are sufficiently addressed simultaneously?
" How could policies to enhance attractiveness be pursued without undermining social cohesion?

(Coordinator)
Anne Ruden, Director, The Norwegian State Housing Bank, Head Office, Norway
(Vice Chair, Urban Working Party, OECD)

(Discussion Panel)
Leo van den Berg, Professor, Department of Regional, Port, and Transport Economics,
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Ullrich Sierau, Councillor, Head of Department for Town Planning, City of Dortmund, Germany
Norihiro Nakai, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Minoru Matsuo, Former President, Nagoya University, Japan

Friday, 3 June

9:20-11:40

Session 3: Partnership for Attractiveness
Character, identity and uniqueness are crucial ingredients in a city’s attractiveness, which can only be exploited by careful planning at a local level, acknowledging social, economic, cultural and natural diversity and comparative advantage in each city. This entails local initiatives based on entrepreneurial thinking and local leadership. On the other hand, the cross-sectoral nature of policies to enhance city attractiveness since the 1980s necessitates involvement of a wide range of local stakeholders and strong partnership among them. Session 3 will be dedicated to discussion of how strong partnerships among various stakeholders could be formed while strengthening local initiatives.

Key Issues for discussion:
"What are the keys to securing local consensus to maintain long-term momentum?
"What are the preconditions for successful partnerships among various stakeholders?
"How can entrepreneurial leadership be reconciled with coordination and cooperation among wider interests?
"How can the private sector’s innovativeness be best realized in local partnerships for enhancing city attractiveness? What should the roles of local and central governments be?
"How can local initiatives be best promoted? What are effective measures for local capacity building?

(Coordinator)
Takayuki Hara, Chair, Urban Working Party, OECD
(Advisor, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan)

(Discussion Panel)
Jim Gill, Chief Executive, Liverpool Vision, UK
Vincent Fouchier, Councillor, DATAR, France
Robert Orr, President, Boeing Japan, USA
Jin Matsuno, Executive Director, Urban Renaissance Agency, Japan

11:50-12:50

Closing Session

12:50-

Closing Remarks
Tetsuo Oomura, Director General, Chubu Regional Bureau,
(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

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