Please note this conference on housing markets.  There is a 'debate' on housing markets in housing and urban studies at the moment
that is sadly lacking in critical awareness. Typical debates are about 'housing market change' with an emphasis on 'restructuring'
housing markets so that they provide 'products' that meet the aspirations of the middle class.  For all this, read demolition of
working class housing and state managed gentrification.  The cosy consensus in the housing research industry, which is obsessed
with meeting 'housing aspirations', needs to be challenged by those of us that remain concerned with gentrification and its
harmful effects as well as the more general problem of the politically managed marginalization of working class people in the now
so sexy city. Critical researchers take note of the conference and think about offering a critical paper on 'housing markets' that
will disturb the nice and cosy consensus that will no doubt otherwise prevail at this conference.   Details of the conference are
below

Regards
Chris Allen


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Dear Sir /Madam,

we are pleased to invite you to the intenational ENHR 2009 conference in
Prague. Conference web pages are now opened for registration on
www.enhr2009.com.

ENHR 09 Prague Conference (28. 6. – 1. 7. 2009)

Changing Housing Markets: Integration and Segmentation

Do we need new paradigm to enable a better understanding of changing
housing markets?
Have traditionally local housing markets become global?
Will record house price appreciations be followed by record price falls?
How should we deal with the consequences of income polarization and
housing market segmentation?

ENHR09 Prague email: [log in to unmask] 

ENHR09 Prague homepage: www.enhr2009.com 

Important dates:

-	Deadline for submission of abstracts – 1 March 2009
-	Deadline for submission of papers – 1 June 2009
-	Deadline for submission of papers for The Hypotecní Banka Award for the
best ENHR Prague 2009 conference paper - 30 April 2009
-	Conference – 28 June – 1 July 2009

Conference plenary sessions:

1.	Transition or Transformation? Path Dependency in Housing System Reforms
in the Czech Republic (Martin Lux, Bo Bengtsson, Petr Mateju, Jozsef
Hegedüs)
2.	The Integration and Disintegration of Housing Finance Systems. The Role
of Housing Finance in Macroeconomics (Mark Stephens, Bernard Vorms,
Stephen Malpezzi – be to confirmed, David Miles – be to confirmed)
3.	Housing and the Wider Economy. Integrated and Segmented Housing Markets
(Geoffrey Meen, Duncan Maclennan, Viggo Nordvik, Nathalie Girouard)
4.	New Socio-spatial Residential Formations in Post-socialist Cities
(Ludek Sýkora, Stefan Buzar, Kiril Stanilov, Annett Steinführer, Michael
Gentile)

On the conference webpages you will find all other detailed information
about its program, the list of workshops with short call for papers for
each workshop (http://www.enhr2009.com/enhr/info/cz/25094/Workshops.html),
deadlines for submission of abstracts and papers, list of field trips and
social events (including the opening reception at the medieval castle of
Krivoklat close to Prague) as well as the possibilities for accomodation
close to conference venue. We would like to aim your attention also to the
Hypotecni Banka Award - the award for the best paper submitted to the
special best paper competition (for detailed criteria see conference web
pages).

We would very appreciate if you can distribute this information among your
workshop members and other potential conference participants. Please, find
enclosed the conference leaflet that can be sent to them with this
information and/or printed and used to promote the ENHR 09 Prague
conference under other occasions.

With best regards,

ENHR 09 Prague Team

Sarka Hastrmanova

Institute of Sociology
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Jilska 1, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

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