《转型期的中国城市与区域规划国际会议暨国际中国城市规划学会第三届年会论文集》内容简介：Approved by the Ministry of Education of China, the conference was organized jointly byNanjing University and International Association for China Planning （IACP）, and was hostedand sponsored by The Virtual City and Environment Laboratory, a collaborative venturebetween Nanjing University and University of Western Sydney, Nanjing Institute of CityTransport Planning Co., Ltd and Nanjing Urban Planning & Research Center co-sponsored,and participated in the organization of the conference. Additional sponsorships wereprovided by Nanjing University, IACP, and the US Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment. Scholars from universities and research institutions in China and abroad, urbandesigners and planners working for public agencies and private consulting firms, as well asgovernment officials responsible for city planning and management were invited to presentpapers and exchange ideas at the conference.

The opening ceremony took place in the morning on June 22. More than one hundredparticipants from China and abroad gathered in the conference hall of Science andTechnology Museum on Nanjing University campus. Professor XU Jian-gang, Chairman ofNanjing University's Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and Professor SHEN Qing,Chairman of IACP and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Architecture,Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, co-chaired the opening ceremony.REN.Li-jian, Vice Party Secretary of Nanjing University, and Professor GAO Shu, Dean ofthe School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, gave welcome speeches. Theycongratulated the participants on getting together in this important and exciting conference asscheduled despite the H1N1 influenza outbreak around the world.

The keynote speech session was chaired by Professor SHEN Qing. Professor RichardLEGATES and Professor ZHANG Ting-wei gave a presentation entitled "Planning Theory,Culture, and the Global Economic Crisis". Professor GU Chao-lin delivered the lecture"Climate Change and China's Coastal Mega-city Regions".