Speaker: Dr. L.H. LI,  Associate Professor

Deputy Head of Department, Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong

Time: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021  at 7: 00 pm

Host: Dr. Li Xin

Tencent Meeting ID: 503 843 083

Content: The concept of “smart City” was more or less promoted in the 90’s.  Basically, it means enhancement of living standard through intensive use of advanced technology. The term “smart city” has become more and more popular among researchers in the fields of urban planning, urban studies, transport engineering, and computer science due to its multi-disciplinary nature.  Most of the focus however concentrates on the application of technology and how this application can improve our living standard and urban sustainability.  However, in this presentation, we would like to raise a small issue which is usually neglected in this discussion of smart city development, namely, can smart city make us, the people, smarter, healthier and more active in a non-technological aspect ? This presentation hopes to raise the discussion level in this aspect with a number of simple examples to examine if the development of smart city can somehow create any undesirable side effects that the advocates of smart city may not really want to see.

About speaker:Dr. L. H. Li, a land policy analyst, is currently an Associate Professor and the Programme Director of the BSc in Surveying in the Department of Real Estate and Construction, the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Li was the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong between 2016-2018.  A Fulbright Hong Kong Scholar in 2006, Dr. Li has a wide range of research interests in social and economic aspects of land use policy, more specifically in the areas of urban land regeneration; impact of the built environment and urban development.  Dr. Li has written over 50 refereed journal papers in these areas, in addition to a number of academic books.  Dr. Li has extensive teaching experiences in undergraduate, taught postgraduate and RPG levels both locally in Hong Kong and in Mainland China including Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou. In September, 2018, Dr. Li was awarded Senior Fellow status by the Higher Education Academy.