Regional Urbanism in the Era of Globalisation
Call for abstracts
This international conference explores the changing face of regional urbanism, asking if the environmental, economic and social challenges facing many parts of the world will provide new opportunities for regional cities to develop alternative forms of urban living which are fundamentally different from those of the rapidly expanding metropolises. Inspired by recent debates about the over-riding economic, political and cultural dominance of London in the United Kingdom, and the survival of regional cities in the north of the country, this conference will take place in a key regional town, Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, located along the ‘Trans-Pennine Corridor’ between Leeds and Manchester.
Through an examination of such issues as environmental sustainability, cultural/civic identity, transportation, health and well-being and social/economic development, the conference will offer a platform for multi-disciplinary debate between academics, policy-makers and practitioners. The conference, which will be hosted by the Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability at the University of Huddersfield, is aimed at urban designers, planners, architects, geographers, sociologists, philosophers, policy makers, urban theorists, historians, landscape architects, economists, conservationists, educationalists, health specialists and politicians.
Submission of abstracts for paper presentations (400 words maximum) or posters (A3 size boards) are invited to address the overarching focus of regional urbanism in the era of globalisation. Themes may include, but are not limited to:
The Challenges of Globalisation
- Regionalism in the Shadow of Global Cities
- Centre vs. Periphery
- Relationships between the Metropolis and the Regional City Network
- Emerging Geographies of Power: The Disappearance of Distance
- Re-inventing a Regional Identity
- International Transferability of Urban Design Skills
Sustainability of the Urban Environment
- Strategies for Sustainable Development
- Improving Urban Infrastructure
- Regional Planning Initiatives
- Housing and Poverty
- Designing for Rapid Urbanisation
- Landscape and Topographical Relationships
Regional Geographies
- Urban vs. Rural
- Transport planning and infrastructure
- Public Sector Role in Urban Design and Planning Challenges
- Post-industrial Regeneration
- Regional Planning Initiatives
- Governance and Localism
Historical and Cultural Dimensions
- Continuity and Change
- Cultural Identity and Attachment to Place
- Heritage and Local Histories
- Civic and Participatory Space
- Regional Architectural and Area Conservation
- Urban Morphologies
Health and Well-Being
- Future of Regional Health-Care
- Enhancing Community Cohesion and Social Innovation
- Impact of Ageing Population
- Addressing Long Term Unemployment
- Housing, Neighbourhoods, Communities and Safety
- Case Studies of Participatory Urban Design
Managing Social and Economic Change
- Competing with the Metropolis
- Decline of the Commercial High-Street
- Redefining the Work vs. Leisure Model
- Future of Service and Manufacturing Sectors
- Cultural Exchanges, Social Innovation and Community Engagement
- Role of the ‘Academy’ in Addressing Urban/Social Decline
- Urban Design Implementation in Regional and Global Contexts
Conference proceedings and publication opportunities:
Publication: Conference proceedings of abstracts will be published for the conference and an edited book of selected papers is planned after the conference.
Important dates:
- Notification of poster acceptance: 1st December
- Early bird registration closes 7th December 2015
- Registration closes: 22 January 2016
- Symposium: 03 to 05 February 2016
Conference registration:
- Full rates £250 (not including Gala dinner)
- Student full rate £150 (not including Gala dinner)
- Student day rate (Thursday/Friday) £50
- Day rate £120 (not including Gala dinner)
- Reception and Wednesday evening Key note £75
- Gala Dinner (Thursday) £35
- Display a poster at the conference without attending £100
To register, visit: http://www.store.hud.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=319
Scientific Committee
Dr. Yasminah Beebeejaun, University College London
Dr. Nadia Bertolino, University of Sheffield
Dr. Katharina Borsi, University of Nottingham
Dr. Tiziano Cattaneo, University of Pavia
Dr. Cristina Cerulli, University of Sheffield
Prof. Yi Chen, Tongji University
Dr. Ben Clifford, University College London
Prof. Maria Cristina Dias Lay, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Sophia Emmanouil, University of Huddersfield
Prof. Daniela Fialho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Kenny Fraser, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Yun Gao, University of Huddersfield
Prof. Dean Hawkes, Cardiff School of Architecture and Darwin College, Cambridge University
Dr. Kayvan Karimi, University College London
Dr. Edgar Liu, The University of New South Wales
Dr. Julia Meaton, The University of Huddersfield
Dr. Luciana Miron, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Dr. Caroline Newton, KU Leuven
Dr. Tolu Onabolu, The University of Edinburgh
Prof. Adrian Pitts, University of Huddersfield
Prof. Michelangelo Savino, University of Padova
Prof. Luigi Stendardo, University of Padova
Dr. Nivaldo Vieira de Andrade Junior, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Dr. Gretchen Wilkins, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Contact us
For further enquiries, please contact:
regionalurbanismconference@hud.ac.uk
Hosting University: University of Huddersfield, UK
Conference Organisers: Prof Nick Temple, Dr Ioanni Delsante, Dr Lucy Montague
Conference address: University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK, HD1 3DH.
General enquiries: regionalurbanismconference@hud.ac.uk
Keynote Speakers
Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
Saskia Sassen is an internationally renowned sociologist and world authority on the impact of globalisation on cities and nations. In 2014 she was voted as one of the world’s leading thinkers by Prospect magazine. Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, Co-Chair Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
Her research examines the social, economic and political dimensions of globalisation, specifically in areas relating to immigration, the emergence of ‘global cities’ (a term first coined by Sassen), the development of networking technologies and terrorism. Sassen is a prolific writer and author of seminal texts that have received many awards and much critical acclaim. Her publications include The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press, 1988), The Global City (Princeton University Press, 1991; 2nd ed 2002), Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2006; 2nd ed. 2008) and most recently Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014).
John Tomaney
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne; Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney; Visiting Professor in CURDS, Newcastle University. He is also a Fellow of the Regional Australia Institute.
He has published over 100 books and articles on questions of local and regional development including Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2006) and Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Routledge 2011). He has undertaken research projects for UK Research Councils, government departments in the UK and elsewhere, the European Commission, the OECD and local and regional development agencies and private sector and voluntary organizations and think tanks in the UK and abroad. He has given evidence to Royal Commissions and Parliamentary Committees in the UK regarding High Speed Rail 2 (HS2), and is a regular commentator in the UK media on matters of local and regional development.
Carlos Garcia Vazquez
Professor of Architectural History, Theory and Composition at the University of Seville.
Carlos García Vázquez is Full Professor at the University of Sevilla, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (ETSAS) and Director of the Research Group of the Universidad de Sevilla “Ciudad, Arquitectura y Patrimonio Contemporáneos”. He is Visiting Professor in Politecnico di Milano from 2010, and has been Visiting in a number of South America Universities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Already Member of Scientific Committees, and Editorial Advisor for a number of Journals, He authored Ciudad Hojaldre. Visiones urbanas del siglo XXI (Gustavo Gili, Barcelone, 2004), and Antípolis. El desvanecimiento de lo urbano en el Cinturón del Sol (Gustavo Gili, Barcelone, 2011).
He has been Principal Investigator in national and international research projects, on social housing neighbourhoods’ regeneration in Andalusia region (2011-2014); 20th century architecture across Spain, Gibraltar and France (2005-2007); Architecture, Cities and Territory of Costa del Sol (2007-2008).
Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre
Alexander Tzonis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Technology Delft where he was Director of Design Knowledge Systems, a multi-disciplinary research centre on Architectural Cognition. He was educated at Yale University and taught at Harvard University between 1967 and 1981. He has held visiting professorships at: Columbia University, (1974-1975), the Universities of Montreal, (1970-1971), Technion, Israel, (1985), MIT, (1996), Singapore, (2006, 2007), Tongji University, (2008), and Tsinghua University (2009-today). In 2002 he was visiting professor at the College de France. Professor Tzonis is an international authority on Critical Regionalism and has written extensively on the subject (in collaboration with Liane Lefaivre), most recently Critical Regionalism: Architecture and Identity in a Globalised World (Prestel, 2003). Among his publications are: The Shape of Community (Penguin, 1972) with Serge Chermayeff and Towards a Non-oppressive Environment (MIT Press, 1972, published in six languages including Japanese); Classical Architecture (MIT Press, 1986; fifth printing 1990, published in eight languages including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) and The Roots of Modern Architecture (SUN, 1984; second edition, 1990) co-authored with Liane Lefaivre. Liane Lefaivre is Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and a researcher at the Technical University of Delft. She has also been a visiting Fellow at MIT and the National University of Singapore. Professor Lefaivre is a world renowned, critic, theoretician and historian of architecture. Along with Alexander Tzonis she has written extensively on issues relating to Critical Regionalism, including Tropical Architecture; Critical Regionalism in a Globalizing World (London, Wiley, 2002) and Critical Regionalism (Munich, Prestel verlag, 2003). Among her many award winning books include Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1996), Architecture in Europe since 1968 (London, Thames & Hudson, 1992), Architecture in North America since 1960 (London,Thames & Hudson, 1996), The Poetics of Order (Cambridge MA , MIT Press, 1987), Aldo van Eyck, Humanist Rebel (Rotterdam, 010, 1999) and Aldo van Eyck, the Playgrounds and the City (Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 2002). She has also curated a number of major exhibitions including Aldo van Eyck's playgrounds (Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2002) and the work of Santiago Calatrava (Kunsthistorisches Museum in 2003). In addition to her scholarly publications, she also writes for various popular architectural magazines, such as The Architectural Record, Architecture Magazine and The Architect's Newspaper
Conference Programme
Wednesday 3rd February
| 3.30 - 4.30pm | Registration | Quayside |
| 4.30 - 5.00pm | Welcome | Quayside |
| 5.00 - 6.00pm | Keynote Speaker - Prof Carlos Garcia Vazquez | Quayside |
| 6.00 - 7.00pm | Reception | Heritage Quay |
Thursday 4th February
| 9.00 - 9.45am | Registration | Quayside | |
| 9.45 - 10.00am | Welcome | Quayside | |
| 10.00 - 11.00am | Keynote Speaker - Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre | Quayside | |
| 11.00 - 11.20am | Refreshments | Quayside | |
| 11.20am - 12.40pm | Parallel Sessions A |
Globalising Challenges and Influences Pheereeya Boonchaiyapruek, Global Realms in the Local City?: Coffeehouse Gentrification in Bangkok’s Built Environment since 2008 Sofia Saavedra Bruno, Caribbean Cruisebanism, the Resilient Cruise Destination (video) Steve Kemp, Learning from Small Island State Stefania Fiorentino, Inner Cities Activities: Where Local Meets Global. Makers and Co-working Spaces in Rome as a Case-Study |
BIC2/29 |
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The Metropolis and the Metropolitan Zone Perla Yannelli Fernández Silva, Peri-urban Localities in the Metropolitan Zone of the Mexico Valley: Main Agents in the Dynamic of the Metropolitan Region Rosalea Monacella and Craig Douglas, Stranded Assets: Transiting Cities, the Metropolis and Regional Centres Victoria Jolley, Central Lancashire New Town: The Agrarian Metropolis |
BIC1/23 | ||
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Ecological and (Post) Utopian Models Nils Björling, Urban Ecologies and Key Projects: Interconnected Approaches to Unlock Fragile Regional Situations Gavin Perin and Linda Matthews, Undoing the Utopic Urban Project Dorian Wiszniewski, Ecosophic Urbanism |
BIC1/19 | ||
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Conceiving Sustainable Agendas/Indicators Luciana Miron, Ioanni Delsante, Residents’ Perception, Design Features and Urban Sustainability Indicators for Urban Regeneration, Local Practices vs. Global Frameworks: The PIEC Case-Study in Porto Alegre (Brazil) Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Sustainability of the Urban Environment: Indian Megacities Ache Stella Achuenu and Daniels Irurah, A Backcasting Approach to the Re-visioning of a Sustainable Desirable Future for Abuja, Nigeria |
Quayside | ||
| 12.40 - 1.20pm | Lunch | BIC1/23 | |
| 1.20 - 3.00pm | Parallel Sessions B |
Urban vs. Rural Guo Chen, Adrian Pitts and Yun Gao, New Expectations for Residents Moving from Rural to Urban Housing in China Mary Ann Ray, “Ruralopolitin” Space: Chinese Cities with Rural Characteristics: New Neighbourhoods of the People, by the People, For the People Shaojun Li, Village Urbanism: Clan Settlement and Industrial State Space of Pearl River Delta |
BIC1/29 |
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Transformations in Social and Housing Provision Peter Bjerrum and Jorgen Hauberg. Rethinking the modern programme - a retrospective review into the possibilities of a social and natural sustainable urbanization Suheyla Turk, Local Level Affordable Housing Provision Enabled by Public-Private Partnerships: An Example from Copenhagen, Denmark Bob Colenutt, The Myth of Spatial Planning: Housing Market Cartels and Housing Delivery in a Global Urban Region |
BIC1/19 | ||
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Globalising Challenges and Influences Yun Gao and Nicholas Temple, The Practice of Architecture and its Representation: Interpreting Globalising Influences on Building Practices in Kunming, China Heuishilja Chang, The Resilience of Japanese Shrinking Communities: Can Cittaslow be their Development Strategy? Dik Jarman, Do they have designs for us or designs on us? (or Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts): The Necessity of Two-way Cultural Understanding and Trust in Regional Urbanism |
BIC1/23 | ||
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Regional Strategies/Relationships and Design Richard Milgrom. Age-friendly regions: supporting uneven growth and decline Maritza Toro Lopez, Gradual Adaption to the Future: The Influence of Transportation on Urban Form in the Region of Urabá, Colombia Kinda Al Sayed, A Spatiotemporal Description of Urban Structures: The Chronology of Dependencies between Configurations and Form-Function Attributes in Cities Hui Cheng, Polycentric Development Practice in China: Evidence from Guangzhou City Region |
Quayside | ||
| 3.00 - 3.20pm | Refreshments | BIC1/23 | |
| 3.20 - 4.40pm | Parallel Sessions C |
Conceiving Sustainable Agendas/Indicators Monica Albonico and Mikhaela Sack, Planning for Sustainability: Negotiating the Tensions between Conservation and Development Christopher Butters, Sustainability: 10 Reasons to Revisit the Small Scale, Low-Dense City Jing Gao and Yun Gao, Sustainable Village Development Projects in Yunnan Province, China Anastasia Nikologianni, Socialization and Implementation of Landscape Ideas for a Sustainable Regional Development |
Quayside |
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Addressing Housing Needs Raffaele Pernice, ‘Mass-Housing Design for a Growing Middle Class in Expanding Cities: An Overview of Japan, China and South Korea Claudia Volberg, Urban Mind Map in Transformation: Potential of Terraced House Estates of the Booming Years Jon Moorhouse, Housing Crisis, Which Housing Crisis? Yu Liu, Space for health: socially innovative ways to bridge urban development and health - Case study of Trieste, Italy |
BIC2/29 | ||
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Regional Identities Mattew Wilson, The Regional Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920 Margarita Gonzalez Cardenas, Re-inventing a regional identity: Public Spaces and Gender Relations in the Islamic City: The Case of Riyadh Susanna Myllylä, Youth Spaces of the Kebele Slum Areas in Addis Ababa |
BIC1/23 | ||
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Psychogeography and Neurodiversity in Public Space Sophia Emmanouil, A Participatory Psychogeographical Study of Architecture, Urban Planning and Everyday Environments in Chapeltown, Leeds Alexander John Bridger, Psychogeography, urbanism and social change Kathi Holt-Damant, Cindy Nicollet, Navigating Logan Central: Urban Design and Neurodiversity |
BIC1/19 | ||
| 4.40 - 5.00pm | Comfort Break |
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| 5.00 - 6.00pm | Keynote Speaker - Saskia Sassen | Quayside | |
| 6.30 - 7.30pm | Reception at Huddersfield Art Gallery and visit to the exhibition "China East-West: The Alternative Face of Globalization in Urban and Rural Transformations" Princess St, HD1 2SU | Huddersfield Art Gallery | |
| 7.30pm - late | Gala Dinner - For those who have pre-booked the dinner the address is 5 St Johns Road, Huddersfield, HD1 5AY | ||
Friday 5th February
| 9.00 - 9.30am | Registration | BIC1/23 | |
| 9.30 - 10.50am | Parallel Sessions D |
Catalysts for Regional Preservation/Transformation Roberto Saenz, The Socio-cultural Construction of Urban Space through Artistic Interventions in the Border Town in Northern Mexico (video) Daniel Rosbottom, New Library and Concert Hall in Bodø, Norway: A Study in Cultural Rejuvenation Rosalba De Felice, The Design of the Vacuum as a Rebirth of Urban Life Martin Bryant, A Settler’s Guide for Regional Cities in New Zealand |
BIC1/23 |
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Urban and Regional Transformations Martina Orsini and Beatrice Galimberti, New Settlements in Margin Contexts between Different Densities and Economic Crisis: A Milan Region Development Case Andrei Mikhail Zaiatz Crestani and Manoel Rodrigues Alves, Public Space, Meanings from Everywhere and Nowhere: Spatialities of Alienation? Tülay Erenoğlu, Re-designing the Brussels Capital Region as an International Region Jiayi Jin, The Regeneration of Post-Industrial Spaces: The Case-Study of Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam |
Quayside | ||
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Regional Identities Peter Blundell Jones, City Landscape and Community Cohesion Dagmar Motycka Weston, Toronto’s West Don Lands: Regionalism, Tradition and the Modern North American City (Friday) Assunta Natale, From a Place in Hell to a Place in Heaven: Site Specificity and Adaptive Architecture – The Case of Hafen City Tian Xue, Reflections on the Relation between Church Architecture and Urbanisation Process of Modern China |
BIC1/19 | ||
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Regional Heritage and Conservation Marco Russo, Local Strategies for the Restoration of the Underwater and Coastal Archaeological Sites in the Phlegraean Fields Charles Hippisley-Cox, A Discussion Exploring the Relationship between Water-Power, Oak-Trees and the Distinctive Cruck-framed Buildings of the Pennines Morten Birk Jørgensen, Heritage as Driver in Development of Danish Villages |
BIC2/29 | ||
| 10.50 - 11.10am |
Refreshments |
Quayside | |
| 11.10am - 12.10pm | Keynote Speaker - John Tomaney | Quayside | |
| 12.10 - 12.50pm | Lunch | BIC1/23 | |
| 12.50 - 2.10pm | Parallel Sessions E |
Urban vs. Rural Hanwen Liao, Alternative Form of Regional Modernisation: Rehabilitation of China’s Rural Settlements for Sustainability Hadi Arbabi, Urban and Rural: An Exploratory Look at Population and Energy Consumption in Local Authorities within England and Wales Bosse Bergman, The Urbanised Rural Juan Francesco Fernández Rodríguez, Empty Housing and Social Management: Local Strategies for Global Challenges |
BIC1/19 |
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Regional Heritage and Conservation Bartlomiej Sapeta, Perception Induced Regionalism: The Impact of Conservative Agendas on Cultural Landscape in Northern New England Irma Kozina, Upper Silesian Workers’ Settlements of the 20th Century and the Heritage Policy in Poland Jonathan French, Managing the Drivers of Change in a Northern Historic City: York 1966-2011 |
BIC2/29 | ||
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Globalising Challenges and Influences Marta López Marcos, Noopolitical Resistance: European Networks as Counter-Laboratories of Migration Peter Martyn, The Price of Worldwide ‘Success’?: On the Dissonance between the Global-Related Development and Architectural Heritage of Brussels and Rotterdam Tom Jefferies and Kevin Logan, Stealthy Cities: Exploring the Limits of Globally Informed Urban Space in the UK Vijay Taheem, (Re)-Evaluation of Regional Identities in the Age of ‘New Modernity’ and Migration: Cast-Study of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK |
Quayside | ||
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Regional Strategies and Design Cristian Silva, Urban Sprawl, New Trends and Strategies for Controlling Impacts: The Case of Santiago de Chile Antonio Campli, Ecuadorian Middle Cities: Characters, Questions, Design Issues Gabriela Celani, Rethinking the sky-scraper for a suburban centrality of a megalopolis - A design studio in the city of Campinas, SP Qiongyu Pan, The Evaluation of Planning Intentions for Chinese High Speed Railway New Towns |
BIC1/23 | ||
| 2.10 - 2.30pm | Refreshments | BIC1/23 | |
| 2.30 - 3.30pm | Parallel Sessions F |
Urban vs. Rural Wen Jiang and Yun Gao, Urban Villages Renovation Project in Kunming City, China Eeva Aarrevaara. The interplay of urban and rural in environmental transitions Julia Fredriksson, Spatial Inequalities: Urban-rural Relationships in Contemporary Regional Development |
BIC2/29 |
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Educational Infrastructure Alba Alexander, Educating Infrastructure and Regional Geography: The Case of Chicago School Closures Pat Crawford and Robert Dalton, World Class Built Environments, Academy and Community: A Case Study from Michigan State University, USA Karna Sengupta, Role of Universities in Knowledge Based Urban Development and its Relationship with the City-Region: The Indian Scenario |
BIC1/19 | ||
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Regional Identities Xiang Ren, Readdressing Critical Regionalism: Critical Architecture of Resistance in Rural-Urban China from 2005-2015 Ngo Kien Thinh and Yun Gao, Identity and Characters of Vietnamese Housing in Hanoi after the Nineteenth Century |
BIC1/23 | ||
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Concluding remarks | BIC1/23 | |
The full schedule will also be available upon registration.
Location
About Huddersfield
http://www.hud.ac.uk/about-huddersfield/
Lonely planet guide to Huddersfield: http://www.hud.ac.uk/explore-hud/
How to get here/campus map: http://www.hud.ac.uk/about/maps/
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Hotels
We would recommend conference delegates book the Huddersfield Central Premier Inn as this is only a 5 minute walk from campus.
If you book early rooms start at only £35.
A little further but still a short walk away is the Travelodge which has advanced purchase rooms starting at £31.
If however you would prefer to stay further from the town centre and explore some of the beautiful areas surrounding Huddersfield you may find one of these hotels more appealing:
The Woodman, Thunder Bridge Ln, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD8 0PX
Cedar Court Hotel, Ainley Top, Lindley Moor Road, Huddersfield, HD3 3RH
Briar Court Hotel, Halifax Rd, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD3 3NT
Central Lodge, 11-15 Beast Market, Huddersfield HD1 1QF