Our special issue on global-local intercation and its impact on cities is released from Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (22-1).
This special issue explores the interrelations among ‘globalization, urban systems, and local development’ by focusing on global-local interactions and their impacts on cities. The issues were grouped under four headings: global versus local forces and urban change; urban systems within the global network of cities; globalization and property markets; and governance of globalizing cities.
See at http://www.springerlink.com/content/rh5v76218504/?p=4d8cadce294b4278a1b6c05ae5a6845b&pi=0.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Conference: New concepts and approaches for Urban and Regional Policy
2-3 April 2007, Leuven, Belgium
Objectives
This conference aims to explore new approaches, new concepts, new instruments, new ideas to respond -in theory and in practice- to developments and challenges in cities and regions such as: the blurred settlement structure (urban nebulae, new relationships between urban and rural areas), the gap between plan and action, the integration between spatial, economic and social planning/policy; social exclusion and spatial segregation, the multi-cultural, (social, cultural, ethnic) diversity, the tensions in urban and regional governance.
Issues to be addressed
Europe needs new discourses, new (relational) approaches and new concepts to tackle problems and challenges it is faced with: the metamorphosis in and of space, growing complexity, fragmentation, increasing awareness of environmental issues, strengthened environmental movement, inter-urban competition, longstanding quest for better coordination - vertical and horizontal-, a more action-oriented planning within a long term perspective, the definition of collective goods in a multi-cultural and fragmented society.
Where (in theory and practice) do we find new analyses, new methods, new instruments, new discourses, new ways for involving citizens, new approaches and new concepts? How to avoid that as soon as these analyses, discourses, approaches and concepts are developed into policy concepts and are translated into action programs a disjunction is witnessed and the 'new' becomes interpreted by use of more traditional (spatial) planning - urban and regional - vocabulary (nested hierarchy, compact city…) and instruments?
TRACKS
01. Plan implementation
Track chair: Tuna Tasan-Kok (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Tuna.tasankok@asro.kuleuven.be
02. Planning for multicultural cities
Track chair: Serena Vicari (Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy) serena.vicari@unimib.it
03. Settlement structure and metamorphosis of space
Track chair: Jef Van den Broeck (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Jef.VandenBroeck@asro.kuleuven.be
04. New discourses and approaches in planning
Track chair: Frank Moulaert (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) frank.moulaert@skynet.be
Objectives
This conference aims to explore new approaches, new concepts, new instruments, new ideas to respond -in theory and in practice- to developments and challenges in cities and regions such as: the blurred settlement structure (urban nebulae, new relationships between urban and rural areas), the gap between plan and action, the integration between spatial, economic and social planning/policy; social exclusion and spatial segregation, the multi-cultural, (social, cultural, ethnic) diversity, the tensions in urban and regional governance.
Issues to be addressed
Europe needs new discourses, new (relational) approaches and new concepts to tackle problems and challenges it is faced with: the metamorphosis in and of space, growing complexity, fragmentation, increasing awareness of environmental issues, strengthened environmental movement, inter-urban competition, longstanding quest for better coordination - vertical and horizontal-, a more action-oriented planning within a long term perspective, the definition of collective goods in a multi-cultural and fragmented society.
Where (in theory and practice) do we find new analyses, new methods, new instruments, new discourses, new ways for involving citizens, new approaches and new concepts? How to avoid that as soon as these analyses, discourses, approaches and concepts are developed into policy concepts and are translated into action programs a disjunction is witnessed and the 'new' becomes interpreted by use of more traditional (spatial) planning - urban and regional - vocabulary (nested hierarchy, compact city…) and instruments?
TRACKS
01. Plan implementation
Track chair: Tuna Tasan-Kok (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Tuna.tasankok@asro.kuleuven.be
02. Planning for multicultural cities
Track chair: Serena Vicari (Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy) serena.vicari@unimib.it
03. Settlement structure and metamorphosis of space
Track chair: Jef Van den Broeck (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Jef.VandenBroeck@asro.kuleuven.be
04. New discourses and approaches in planning
Track chair: Frank Moulaert (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) frank.moulaert@skynet.be
Special session on waterfronts at Association of American Geographers Conference
Quays to the City: Critical Analyses of Urban Waterfront Transformations
16-22 April 2007, San Francisco, USA
Urban waterfronts around the world continue to change. During the last four decades, many have been transformed from places where shipping and industry dominated into spaces for residential and commercial and leisure activities. Shifting urban political economies, environmental issues and associated societal relationships with nature, theories and practices of urban planning, and the ebbs and flows of civil society action have all played key roles in defining and producing these transformations. It is important for theoretical and empirical research to examine, explain, and inform waterfront transformations, including the ways in which these transformations articulate with the broader political economies and ecologies of cities and urban change.
Papers in this session will take critical approaches to the historical and contemporary transformations of urban waterfronts. Paper topics may examine themes such as: nature-society relationships on the waterfront; new governance regimes and mechanisms in urban waterfront development; the politics and planning of urban waterfronts; historical and environmental geographies of urban waterfront development; transformations in labour practices and social inclusion/exclusion; the role of social movements in shaping and contesting waterfront configurations; regional economic impacts of waterfront transformations; and the broader political economy and cultural politics shaping the revitalization, regeneration, and reproduction of urban waterfronts.
Organizers:
Gene Desfor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, desfor@yorku.ca
Tuna Tasan-Kok, Catholic University of Leuven, Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning. Leuven, Belgium, tuna.tasankok@asro.kuleuven.be
Jennefer Laidley, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, jlaidley@yorku.ca
16-22 April 2007, San Francisco, USA
Urban waterfronts around the world continue to change. During the last four decades, many have been transformed from places where shipping and industry dominated into spaces for residential and commercial and leisure activities. Shifting urban political economies, environmental issues and associated societal relationships with nature, theories and practices of urban planning, and the ebbs and flows of civil society action have all played key roles in defining and producing these transformations. It is important for theoretical and empirical research to examine, explain, and inform waterfront transformations, including the ways in which these transformations articulate with the broader political economies and ecologies of cities and urban change.
Papers in this session will take critical approaches to the historical and contemporary transformations of urban waterfronts. Paper topics may examine themes such as: nature-society relationships on the waterfront; new governance regimes and mechanisms in urban waterfront development; the politics and planning of urban waterfronts; historical and environmental geographies of urban waterfront development; transformations in labour practices and social inclusion/exclusion; the role of social movements in shaping and contesting waterfront configurations; regional economic impacts of waterfront transformations; and the broader political economy and cultural politics shaping the revitalization, regeneration, and reproduction of urban waterfronts.
Organizers:
Gene Desfor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, desfor@yorku.ca
Tuna Tasan-Kok, Catholic University of Leuven, Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning. Leuven, Belgium, tuna.tasankok@asro.kuleuven.be
Jennefer Laidley, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, jlaidley@yorku.ca
Budapest, Istanbul, and Warsaw: Institutional and spatial change
Tuna Tasan-Kok
How does economic globalization change cities? Specifically, how do new spatial patterns emerge in rapidly developing cities at the periphery of the advanced capitalist world? The ongoing process of economic transformation linking three cities – Budapest, Istanbul, and Warsaw – to the global economy has an enormous impact on their spatial structures. While their new spatial elements are similar, the local conditions shaping recent changes are not. This study examines the differences in institutional settings and looks beneath the surface of the new urban landscape. It explains how traditions, values, and power structures shape the social, economic, and political deregulation in these cities. Three local effects are highlighted here: the shift from municipal government to governance; the relaxation of urban planning regimes; and the deregulation of financial systems. These institutional changes are viewed in relation to their impact on urban property markets.
Eburon Publishers
How does economic globalization change cities? Specifically, how do new spatial patterns emerge in rapidly developing cities at the periphery of the advanced capitalist world? The ongoing process of economic transformation linking three cities – Budapest, Istanbul, and Warsaw – to the global economy has an enormous impact on their spatial structures. While their new spatial elements are similar, the local conditions shaping recent changes are not. This study examines the differences in institutional settings and looks beneath the surface of the new urban landscape. It explains how traditions, values, and power structures shape the social, economic, and political deregulation in these cities. Three local effects are highlighted here: the shift from municipal government to governance; the relaxation of urban planning regimes; and the deregulation of financial systems. These institutional changes are viewed in relation to their impact on urban property markets.
Eburon Publishers
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