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please find enclosed to the message the last call for papers for the session
on "Area-based urban programmes and new local governance" at the Urban
Condition and Life Chances Conference in Amsterdam. The keynote speaker of
the session will be Prof. Alan Harding, from the university of Salford.
Best,
Ugo
Urban Conditions and Life Chances
International Conference, Amsterdam 6th July - 8th July 2006, Universiteit
van Amsterdam, AMIDSt, Research and Training Network UrbEurope
Website
http://www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/conference.cfm
The event
This is an international conference of the Amsterdam institute for
Metropolitan and International Development Studies, co-organized by the
Research and Training Network UrbEurope.
The conference will be an interdisciplinary meeting, open to geographers,
political scientists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, planners
and other social scientists.
Conference format
The conference will be organized in two types of sessions:
a.. Plenary sessions in the morning where invited keynote speakers will
debate recent research developments and questions related to various aspects
of the conference theme
b.. Workshops in the afternoon will be focused on issues proposed by
participants to expose different dimensions of urban conditions and life
chances; selected participants will present their papers for discussion.
Language
English
Organizers
Sako Musterd ([log in to unmask])
Wim Ostendorf ([log in to unmask])
Bettina Springer ([log in to unmask])
With the support of the AMIDSt - secretariat.
Conference site
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Roeterseiland
Roetersstraat 15 (Building A)
1018 WB Amsterdam
the Netherlands
Deadlines
a.. Sending abstracts (March 1st, 2006)
b.. Reply abstract accepted or not till March 15th, 2006
c.. Sending papers (June 1st, 2006)
d.. Final program (June 1st, 2006)
e.. On-line Registration (until June 1st, 2006)
Workshops
We aim to bring together coherent selections of papers to stimulate fruitful
discussion and to approach journals with a proposal for a special issue on
each workshop. We invite participants to submit an abstract before March 1st
2006, and a full paper before June 1st 2006. Discussants of the papers will
be appointed. Abstracts will be selected based on their themes and how well
they fit with other papers. All contributors are invited to submit an
abstract.
Area-based urban programmes and new local governance
Thea Dukes ([log in to unmask]) and Ugo Rossi ([log in to unmask])
In the last decade, many European countries have initiated area-based urban
programmes, in response to major social and economic problems in the cities
(e.g. URBAN). Aside from targeting a well marked deprived urban area, these
urban policies pursued an integrated way of working. The workshop will focus
on the impact of these programmes on the modes of local governance in their
target areas. Could one argue that they have truly stimulated 'new' modes of
local governance? And, if so, how sustainable have these 'new modes' proved
to be over time?
As the outcomes of these programmes might be strongly conditioned by
national political-administrative structures and by the presence (or lack)
of a national policy framework, the issue will be approached from a
comparative perspective, in which European and/or national programmes in
cities in different EU member states will be the focus of examination.
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