APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
2nd Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Boston, April 15-19, 2008
Delivering Sustainable Buildings and Communities: questioning private sector-led
urban regeneration and development policy implementation
Recent convergences between the public and private sectors in the implementation
of sustainable urban regeneration and development schemes raises questions
pertaining to the role of private development interests in the formulation and
delivery of planning and growth management related policies. Increasingly, such
policies support a streamlined planning and development process that ameliorates
conditions for private sector developers in the construction and development of
sustainable buildings and communities, and strengthens the role of private
sector planners, architects, and urban designers in local policy networks. The
public sector reliance on the private sector’s finance, skills, and resources
in the delivery of a sustainable built environment is increasingly viewed as
problematic as we witness the proliferation of less than optimal sustainability
performances, rising land values, and expensive housing developments in certain
new and regenerated areas of towns and cities. Generic design,
inequitable access to sustainable spaces, unchecked costs, market premiums, and
un(der)regulated design standard compliance (among other issues) are
complicating the intentions of policy and decision-makers espousing the private
sector delivery of the ‘public good’ of sustainability. This session welcomes
(but is not limited to) papers on the following topics and themes:
- Public-private relations and arrangements in the provision of sustainable
buildings and communities
- Sustainable urban regeneration policies and the real estate industry
- Private sector use of sustainable building rating systems
- Regulation v. voluntarism in the promotion of sustainable planning and
development
- Role of private sector planners, architects, and/or urban designers in
provision of sustainable buildings and communities
- Sustainable urban regeneration policies and social equity
- Internationalisation of private development and the complications this has for
private sector-led policy implementation
- Politics of ‘responsibility’ in the pursuit of sustainable urban development
Please send paper abstracts of no more than 250 words, with name and contact
information to both session organizers by September 30, 2007:
Susan Moore Susannah Bunce
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales York University, Toronto, Canada
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