RGS-IBG annual conference, London. 31 August-2 September 2005.
Relational geographies of architecture and development
Organisers: Donald McNeill, Department of Geography, King’s College London, and Susan Moore, Department of Geography, London School of Economics.
This session aims to bring together new research on relational approaches to urban development and the built environment from a range of geographical disciplines. Current debates on geographies of circulation (such as the increasing reach of transnational epistemic communities of architects, engineers, and property consultants, and the rapid transfer of design paradigms such as the New Urbanism) have highlighted the importance of seeing urban space as constituted through practices of interaction or dynamic contexts-of-action. The papers presented in this session should empirically and theoretically elucidate or expand on one or more of the following themes:
* Production and consumption of built form and urban space;
* Trans-national circulation of ideas, concepts, resources, practices and forms;
* Emerging power of global professionals in city building processes;
* Public and private interactions in the processes of development and design;
* Development cultures and rationalities; and
* Relational aspects of architecture and development within contemporary processes of urban policy formulation and urban politics.
Please send abstracts in Word format to both of the session organisers, Donald McNeill ([log in to unmask]) and Susan Moore ([log in to unmask]) by 24th January 2005.
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