Wu Chengzhong Was Invited to Attend 59th Annual Meeting of North American Meeting of RSAI
From Nov. 7 2012 to Nov. 10 2012, 59th Annual Meeting of North American Meeting was held by Regional Science Association of International(RSAI) and organized by Canadian Regional Science Association at Westin Hotel, Ottawa, capital of Canada. Around 650 representatives attended the meeting, who were from Princeton University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Tokyo, Johns Hopkins University, University of Toronto, University of Michigan, University of Barcelona, University of British Columbia, Cornell University, Statistics Canada, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other universities, governments and research agencies. There were 160 sub-forums, including energy, transportation and land using, industrial clusters, culture, tourism, housing market, trade, labor cost, education, climate change, urban and space planning, urban economics, space statics, regional development policy, air quality and transportation, resources and other fields. Dr. Wu Chengzhong, Associate Professor of SPA, UIBE and Director of Research Center of Cultural and Leisure Industry, made an academic report at Tourism Sub-Forum about “Research on Beijing Leisure Space Development in Ming & Qing Dynasty” and was invited to make comments on the essay written by Prof. David from Geography Department, University of British Columbia. During the meeting, Associate Professor Wu Chengzhong attended the communication and exchange at “Regional Development 5: Art and Culture”, “Creative City and Creative Class”, “Culture and Comfort” and other sub-forums.
During the rest of the meeting, Dr. Wu Chengzhong visited Politics Department, Ottawa University, and made a deep negotiation with Jonathan Paquette, who was the doctoral tutor of public administration major and a famous scholar in cultural policy, about the cooperation in cultural industry management subject in details.
