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
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