Sustainable, Smart and Solidary Seoul

Tony Robinson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the CU Denver Department of Political Science, Denver, Colorado, USA. His Korean urban studies research draws on more than a decade leading month-long university urban planning study-abroad trips across Korea. Dr. Robinson has delivered a series of academic presentations on Korean history, culture and political-economy in both the United States and Korea, including public lectures arranged in collaboration with the Korean Ambassador to the United States. Dr. Robinson has been tapped by the U.S. National Consortium for Teaching on Asia to produce educational videos on modern Korean history for distribution to teachers across the United States Dr. Minsun Ji is a Korean scholar with expertise in Korean labor and social economy issues. She has been tapped by multiple Korean civil society and governmental organizations in recent years to deliver talks and consultant reports on the status of the social economy sector in Korea. She has been invited to deliver presentations and consultant reports to the Special Social Economy Committee of the South Korean government, including presentations to the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Planning and Finance. She is currently the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and Director of Global Partnerships for the Drivers Cooperative (New York).

• Introduction.- Towards Zero Waste and the Circular Economy: Green Governance Remakes Seoul.- From Cheonggyecheon to Seoullo 7017: The Greening of Seoul.- Twenty-One Million Trips a Day: Seoul’s Mass Transit Revolution.- A City of Sensors:  Solving the Urban Puzzle.