
The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion: Book Launch and Author Panel
December 2, 2021 , 9:00 am – 10:30 am

Through illustrated case studies, twenty scholars and practitioners in this edited volume focus on the emerging public realm and the critical transformations of public space in the world’s most populous megaregion —the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China— projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025.
Editor and Moderator

Timothy Jachna
Dean, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Editor

Miodrag Mitrašinović
Professor of Urbanism and Architecture
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, THE NEW SCHOOL
Speakers

Juan Du
Dean, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Mary Ann O’Donnell
Independent Artist-Ethnographer
Cofounder
THE HANDSHAKE-302 ART SPACE, Shenzhen, China

Brian McGrath
Professor of Urban Design
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, THE NEW SCHOOL

Paul Chu
Department Head
CHU HAI COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION