Legislative proposals to codify directors' liability for insolvent trading in Hong Kong : a 10-year journey

Hong Kong is a modern global city with a reputation for well-regulated financial markets, but for years, the government had been trying to enact laws on corporate rescue procedures with relatively little success. It is under the pretext of the Global Financial Crisis, the threat of a future economic meltdown gave the Hong Kong government the impetus to revisit this issue. This third attempt to codify statutory obligations on directors’ liability for insolvent trading has been criticised for either setting the standards too high or low for directors trading whilst insolvent. There is also some reservation given the beliefs and values of directors in Chinese family-owned and controlled companies. These companies would most likely trade out the difficult times. Nevertheless, this does not negate from the fact that the enactment of corporate rescue procedures in Hong Kong in 2010 is a momentous achievement for the Hong Kong government.

Shanghai : images of modernity

This chapter profiles China's biggest city and economic powerhouse, Shanghai. The authors examine the city’s use of culture to position itself as a global city and how a particular narrative of the city has informed western commentators and Shanghai policy makers. They also analyze the development of an arts and cultural infrastructure and the parallel separation of art and entertainment, with contemporary art as an unexpected challenge, but one the city successfully negotiated. They looks at the marketisation of culture and the context in which this takes place, tracing the connections between market reforms in culture and those in the wider economy. The authors are convinced that the half-formed or distorted use of western concepts like creative industries or creative clusters, rather than indicating a duplicity or an incomplete modernity actually highlight some of the complicities of canonical cultural policy.

Editorial: Dimensions of knowledge-based urban development

This issue marks the beginning of a new editorial cycle. In the seventh volume of the journal the editorial team will continue collating novel scientific and social developments in the broader field of ‘knowledge-based development’ to report to our readers. In this perspective, the first issue of the volume focuses on different dimensions of knowledge-based urban development. As Gabe et al. (2012, p.1179) indicate, “[i]t would be an understatement to suggest that knowledge plays a key role in today’s economy; for much of the developed world, it might be more accurate to assert that knowledge is today’s economy”. Thus, knowledge generation has been a priority for global city administrations, and there is a growing consensus amongst scholars, planners, politicians and industrialists in identifying knowledge-based urban development as a panacea to the burgeoning economic problems (Knight, 1995; Kunzmann, 2009; Yigitcanlar, 2010, 2011; Huggins and Strakova, 2012; Lönnqvist et al., 2014). Although, in the era of global knowledge economy, knowledge-based urban development is a critical factor for economic success (Pratt, 2000; Sheppard, 2002), it is not solely an economic policy. For many, knowledge-based urban development is a policy that targets building an urban setting to form perfect climates for business, people, and governance in an environmentally friendly atmosphere (Carrillo, 2006; Ergazakis et al., 2006; Angelidou et al., 2012). Each of these climates correspond to a dimension or domain of knowledge-based urban development – namely, economy, society, space, and governance (Carrillo et al., 2014). Each paper of this issue corresponds to at least one of these domains, or policy areas.

Place making for knowledge generation and innovation: Planning and branding Brisbane’s knowledge community precincts

Knowledge generation and innovation have been a priority for global city administrators particularly during the last couple of decades. This is mainly due to the growing consensus in identifying knowledge-based urban development as a panacea to the burgeoning economic problems. Place making has become a critical element for success in knowledge-based urban development as planning and branding places is claimed to be an effective marketing tool for attracting investment and talent. This paper aims to investigate the role of planning and branding in place making by assessing the effectiveness of planning and branding strategies in the development of knowledge and innovation milieus. The methodology of the study comprises reviewing the literature thoroughly, developing an analysis framework, and utilizing this framework in analyzing Brisbane’s knowledge community precincts—namely Boggo Road Knowledge Precinct, Kelvin Grove Urban Knowledge Village, and Sippy Downs Knowledge Town. The analysis findings generate invaluable insights in Brisbane’s journey in place making for knowledge and innovation milieus and communities. The results suggest as much as good planning, branding strategies and practice, the requirements of external and internal conditions also need to be met for successful place making in knowledge community precincts.

Identidad territorial y paisaje. Evolución morfológica de los núcleos en Castilla y León.

Este estudio intenta esclarecer las transformaciones físicas y socioeconómicas de los asentamientos rurales de la región española de Castilla y León, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Se analiza la evolución temporal de la forma urbana a través de un Sistema de Información Geográfico (SIG), calculando unos índices métricos y comparándolos con la información demográfica histórica. Los resultados pretenden mostrar los efectos de la especialización funcional económica, causada por la integración en las jerarquías productivas globales, sobre la estructura urbana. La pérdida gradual de las características tradicionales de los pueblos castellanos, como la compacidad y la integración en el entorno, debido a la pérdida o degradación de la arquitectura popular y la construcción de nuevas edificaciones industriales, supone un riesgo para las futuras políticas de desarrollo local. Se considera necesario preservar la identidad paisajística y evitar la destrucción del patrimonio cultural para poder revitalizar estos territorios.

Museums and youth: between misunderstanding and disappointment. Youth perceptions and arguments about the cultural consumption of museums in Chile

Young people are less explored in museum audience research; this is a paradoxical situation when considering its strategic location in the cultural reproduction and if considering the high performing cultural consumption compared with other sectors. The phenomenon of museums consumption by young Chileans who are self recognized as public and non-public museums is explored from a qualitative approach. It was conducted with focus groups in the three largest cities in Chile (Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción). They identify the museum as a cultural institution in full force. However, in questioning museums activity youth reveal the specificity of their cultural matrix. This is referred to a social temporality based on the fragment, the discourse of familiarity, proximity and instead of breaking and critical. They claim a museum aesthetic / historical experience based on pleasure and enjoyment. An overview is proposed to further clarify the youth cultural consumption to characterize more precisely the place of the museum in the set, to design more effective policies museums.

Escalators, Elevators and Travelators: The Occupational Mobility of Migrants to South-East England

In a meritocratic society it is assumed that the chance of achieving occupational mobility (OM) is not strongly influenced by one's starting position in terms of class or ethnicity. This paper seeks to explain the drivers of the high levels of OM achieved by one ethnically defined group: the Scots. Educational attainment is shown to be particularly important. A second level of interest is the changing role of internal migrants to a global city in the face of increased international skilled immigration. We investigate whether there is any evidence that the OM of internal migrants is being hindered as a result. The evidence points instead to immobile local labour being more disadvantaged occupationally than mobile labour from peripheral regions of the state.

Bogotá a escala latinoamericana

El presente documento aborda la situación de la ciudad de Bogotá en medio del proceso de globalización económica. Es un análisis comparado que tiene como objetivo mostrar el lugar que ocupa la capital colombiana en el nuevo escenario urbano dado por la globalización. Se pondrán a prueba las tesis propuestas por Saskia Sassen en su libro La ciudad global que se refieren a la concentración de la actividad económica contemporánea y al lugar clave para las finanzas.

Competitividad internacional urbana. Casos: Madrid, Dublín y Copenhague

La asignatura de Competitividad Internacional Urbana (ciu) del programa de Gestión y Desarrollo Urbanos (gdu) de la Universidad del Rosario ha sido desde 2009, cuando asumí su dirección y orientación, un reto permanente de aprendizajes tan estimulantes y variados cuantas ciudades y atributos hay por descubrir en el inmenso mundo de lo urbano-rural-regional. Si bien la competitividad es un asunto urbano-regional antes que nacional, la mayor parte de los enfoques y de las consiguientes referencias bibliográficas abordan la competitividad a nivel nacional siendo relativamente escasas las publicaciones sobre la competitividad urbana. Así, los documentos abordan una descripción general de las ciudades, las causas de las crisis y las consecuencias para la ciudad y su estructura económica, analizadas a partir de los impactos sobre el mercado laboral, los precios de la vivienda, el desarrollo del turismo, entre otros, y las diversas estrategias que adoptaron para afrontar la crisis y convertirla en una oportunidad de desarrollo.

Jogos Pan-Americanos de 2007: uma avaliação social

O presente estudo objetivou verificar até que ponto os impactos e o legado da implementação dos Jogos Pan-americanos de 2007 alteraram as condições sociais e a forma de utilização do espaço urbano na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Considerou-se que a competição das Américas esteja inserida na aplicação dos conceitos da cidade global, uma vez que os festivais esportivos internacionais se transformaram em megaeventos na esteira da consolidação do pensamento do planejamento urbano competitivo. Para contextualizar essa análise foi necessária uma pesquisa sobre a trajetória urbana da cidade-sede na interseção dos dois movimentos: cidade global e megaeventos. Tendo em vista que a decisão da realização do megaevento carioca foi tomada pela esfera pública, assim como o seu financiamento, foram analisados os gastos estatais e reclassificados, segundo a metodologia de O‟Connor (1977), e divididos nas funções de acumulação e de legitimação com o intuito de identificar os favorecidos e os desfavorecidos pela política pública efetivada. Os resultados da investigação sinalizam um aprofundamento da desigualdade social e urbana, via transferências de recursos públicos para o domínio do capital privado

Espacialidade e ativismo social na zona leste de São Paulo: o caso do Coletivo Dolores Boca Aberta Mecatrônica de Artes

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

A Critique of Authenticity and Recognition

While forms of ethics based upon authenticity and recognition are holding sway in contemporary philosophical debates (Ferrara, Honneth, Fraser, etc.), many of the implications of both processes – conceptual, moral, political – are still insufficiently reflected upon. The talk will offer a “critique” (in the Kantian sense) of both, based upon an analysis of the “semiotics” of authenticity and the resulting perpetuation of a regime of authority of experts, as well as commenting upon the striking absence of the realm of literature and the arts from this debate, except in some references to a rather abstract notion of Aesthetics. It will also critically revaluate the concept of agency implicit in an ethics of authenticity and recognition.

La planificación estratégica en los procesos de conformación de las ciudades globales: Los casos de Singapur y Dubái

La globalización, en las últimas décadas, ha tenido una amplia repercusión e influencia sobre la evolución de los procesos que intervienen en la gestión y la ordenación urbano-territorial. Esta influencia ha sido especialmente destacable en los procesos de conformación de las Ciudades Globales (CG). No obstante, dentro de los procesos actuales, y de los ya iniciados décadas atrás, se encuentran discordancias tanto con respecto a los modelos de gestión urbanoterritoriales como con relación a los procesos de conformación de las CG. Esto es debido a que cada territorio o CG no ha seguido un proceso homogéneo; sino que, a través del modelo empresarial de la “Planificación Estratégica” (PE) cada proceso ha sido adaptado para poder atender y potenciar las características más singulares de cada territorio, y de esta forma, poder alcanzar las ambiciosas posiciones de liderazgo. Por este motivo, el éxito de la PE se ha basado en simplificar la complejidad de los modelos y agentes que participan en los procesos de conformación de los territorios y ciudades globales. En esta investigación se propone analizar el valor de la PE como proceso de gestión y ordenación urbano-territorial; al igual que se pretende esclarecer tanto los modelos como los elementos de los que se compone. Para, poder así, identificar las relaciones que se producen entre los modelos y elementos principales de los que se compone una PE. Por motivos relacionados con la necesaria acotación de toda investigación, y mediante el apoyo de tanto el tutor de esta investigación como de expertos externos consultados, se ha acordado analizar los aspectos más característicos del proceso estratégico, como son: los territoriales, los económicos y los de gobernanza. Esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo a través del uso del método estudio de casos, mediante un proceso de recogida de información compuesto por dos estudios de campo, Singapur y Dubái, con similitudes tanto en el proceso como en los resultados. También se han realizado consultas a expertos multidisciplinares, cuya información y aportaciones se han articulado y procesado mediante la utilización del sistema de análisis de realidades complejas, presentado en el marco conceptual. Los resultados del estudio de los casos de Singapur y de Dubái muestran como las acciones urbano-territoriales que se han llevado a cabo en ambas ciudades y en sus territorios circundantes son consecuencia del uso de la planificación estratégica en beneficio de un mejor posicionamiento dentro del contexto global. De esta forma, mediante el análisis de las asimetrías y de las relaciones existentes entre el proceso, los casos de estudio y el contexto global, se identifica y se esclarece los términos relacionados con las ciudades globales referentes, consolidadas y emergentes. A su vez, a lo largo del marco conceptual se correlaciona y esclarece los procesos territoriales, económicos y de gobernanza, identificando las responsabilidades entre las instituciones, los organismos, los agentes y los actores (tanto públicos como privados) que inician y gestionan tanto el plan estratégico como los procesos derivados de él. Para finalizar, el análisis cruzado de los resultados demuestra la relación existente entre la planificación estratégica, la ordenación urbano-territorial, la gestión económica y la gobernanza. Pudiéndose identifican las asimetrías producidas durante la implantación de un plan estratégico, de forma que, tras un análisis del sistema de realidades complejas, estas asimetrías puedan ser solventadas. RESUMO Nas últimas décadas, a globalização tem tido um grande impacto sobre a evolução dos processos de gestão e planejamento urbano-territorial. Essa influência foi particularmente notável nos processos de formação das cidades globais (CG). No entanto, comparando os processos atuais e aqueles iniciados há décadas, as discrepâncias são encontradas tanto no que diz respeito aos modelos de uso do solo urbano, como em relação aos processos de formação e gestão das CG. Isso ocorre porque cada território ou CG não tem seguido um processo uniforme; mas, por meio do modelo de negócios de "Planejamento Estratégico" (PE) cada processo foi adaptado para servir e melhorar as características mais singulares de cada território para alcançar posições de liderança global. Portanto, o sucesso do PE é baseado na simplificação da complexidade dos modelos e atores envolvidos nos processos de formação dos territórios e das cidades globais. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o valor do PE como um processo de gestão territorial e urbana; como também esclarecer os modelos e elementos do PE estudados. Para, então, poder identificar as relações que ocorrem entre os modelos e os principais elementos integrantes de um PE. Como recorte de pesquisa, após consultas com o tutor da pesquisa e com outros pesquisadores especialistas, decidiu-se analisar os aspectos mais característicos do processo estratégico, sendo eles: os territoriais, os econômicos e os de governabilidade. Esta pesquisa ’e um estudo de casos. Para realizá-lo, foram escolhidos dois estudos de campo (Dubai e Cingapura) e além de consultas com especialistas multidisciplinares, cujas informações e colaborações foram analisadas por um sistema de analise de realidades complexas, explicado na parte conceitual dessa tese. Os resultados do estudo dos casos de Dubai e Cingapura mostra como as ações urbanoterritoriais que foram realizadas em ambas cidades e em seus territórios circundantes são resultado do uso do planejamento estratégico em prol de uma melhor localização no contexto global. Assim, através da análise das assimetrias e da relação entre o processo, os estudos de caso e o contexto global, identifica-se e esclarece os termos relacionados com as cidades globais referentes, consolidadas e emergentes. Também, no arcabouço conceitual correlacionase e esclarecem-se os processos econômicos, territoriais e de governabilidade, identificando as responsabilidades das instituições, agências, agentes e atores (públicos e privados), que iniciam e gerenciam tanto o plano estratégico, como os processos derivados. A análise cruzada dos resultados demonstra a relação entre o planejamento estratégico, o planejamento urbano-territorial, a gestão econômica e a governabilidade. A pesquisa é capaz de identificar as assimetrias produzidas durante a implementação de um plano estratégico, para que depois da análise do sistema de realidades complexas, essas assimetrias possam ser resolvidas. ABSTRACT Globalization, in recent decades, has had a wide impact and influence on the evolution of the processes involved in the urban planning management. This influence has been particularly notable in the formation processes for the Global Cities (GC). However, within the current processes, even in those started decades ago, discrepancies are found between the urbanterritorial models and their relation to the processes of formation for the CG. This is because each territory, or CG, has not followed a uniform process; although, each process has been adapted through the business model of the "Strategic Planning" (SP) to serve and enhance the most unique characteristics of each urban territory, until reaching the ambitious global leadership positions. Therefore, the success of SP is based on simplifying the complexity of the models and actors involved in the processes of formation of the GCs and territories. This research aims to analyze the value of SP as a process for the urban and territorial management; intended to clarify both models and elements of which it is composed. And, for so, identify the relationships that occur between them. For reasons related to the required limits of all research, and through the support of this research by both the tutor and the consulted outside experts, has agreed to analyze the most characteristic aspects of the strategic process, which are: territory, economy and governance. This research was conducted through the use of the case study methodology; by a process of information collection of two field studies, Singapore and Dubai, with similarities in both the process and the results; and through consultation with a variety of multidisciplinary experts. Whose information and input has been articulated and processed by the use of a system prepared for the complex analysis of realities presented in the research’s conceptual framework. Thus, analyzing the asymmetries and relationship between the results of the study cases of Singapore and Dubai, have shown how the urban-territorial actions, which have been carried out in both cities and in their surrounding territories, are the result of the use of the strategic planning process for the benefit of a better position with respect to the global context. Meanwhile, along the conceptual framework correlates and clarifies the territorial, economic and governance processes, identifying responsibilities between the institutions, agencies, agents and actors (public and private) that initiate and manage both strategic planning and processes derived from it. Finally, the cross-analysis of the results shows the relationship between strategic planning, urban and territorial planning, economic management and governance. Being able to identify and eliminate the asymmetries produced during the implementation of a strategic planning for the formation of a Global City.