Join Dr Qiumeng Li for an online training session on AI agents for human mobility in healthy & sustainable cities. The training session is part of an USF-funded Seminar Series Award for the project Mapping opportunities for healthy and sustainable urban transitions in post-industrial cities.
Training details
- Date/time: 29 September 2026, 18:00 (China · UTC+8) / 15:30 (India · UTC+5:30) / 11:00 (United Kingdom · UTC+1)
- Format: Online via Zoom, live from Room 103, E1 HKUST(GZ) Campus
- Register for Zoom access: https://hkust-gz-edu-cn.zoom.us/meeting/register/ka_AMDGnQkuIW1h_KTOvEA
About the project
Post-industrial cities and communities are frequently portrayed as toxic and polluted, economically stagnant, and spatially shrinking. They are often associated with population decline, brain drain, and social fragmentation. Described as dilapidated and unsafe, these cities are depicted as places with bleak landscapes—symbols of decline rather than opportunity. In developed regions, many once-thriving industrial cities and mining towns are now seen as forgotten, marginalised, or even dystopian. As many developing economies now also begin to experience deindustrialisation, this question becomes more urgent.
Our seminar series aims to reimagine these former industrial heartlands as the foundations for a new generation of healthy, sustainable, and inclusive urban environments focusing on human mobility, healthy ageing and place attachment. We aim to critically engage with foundational questions: What does ‘(post-)industrialisation’ mean today? How should we understand ‘post-industrial’ cities and communities? What does a just and sustainable urban transition truly look like across different global contexts?
By bridging diverse experiences and knowledges from both the Global South and Global North and drawing on perspectives from a wide range of cities and neighbourhoods, we will work toward synthesising a multidirectional and collective vision—one that informs the building of healthy, inclusive, and sustainable urban futures from the remnants and realities of cities and communities’ industrial pasts.