2nd Call for Papers
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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, 1st-3rd September, London UK
A Joint Sponsored Session of the Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) and
the Planning and Environmental Research Group (PERG)
Urban Planning Terrains: Decentring Dominant Narratives
Convenors
Susan Moore (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)
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Andrew Harris (Department of Geography, University College London)
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Abstract
This session aims to explore how urban planning techniques, strategies and
ideologies develop, travel, translate and diffuse. It will draw on recent
work on the mobility and assemblage of urban policies and policy-making,
while responding to a new emphasis on globalized 'planning cultures'
(Friedmann, 2005) within planning theory. Whilst broadly focused on the
concept of 'planning terrains' and the cultural and theoretical
implications of urban 'policies on the move' (McCann and Ward 2009), the
session seeks to challenge a reliance on idealised models of 'good cities'
that do not sufficiently account for the geographical and historical
specificity of urban places. In so doing, the session also aims to
complement and extend existing debates surrounding the
'post-colonialization' of urban theory (Robinson, 2006) and a refocusing
of planning practice beyond dominant European and North American models
(Watson, 2009).
Contributors will be encouraged to address the following questions and
themes:
a. How are urban planning agendas and spatial typologies devised,
promoted, negotiated and circulated through particular types of
globalised networks?
b. What transfer agents, institutional interfaces, translation methods
and embodied practices are involved? What models, visual devices and
templates for learning are created and recruited?
c. How do models of urban planning account for and anticipate the
geographical and historical specificity of places?
d. What is the relationship between historical and contemporary
terrains of global planning practice and education?
e. How are global and regional urban planning and policy networks being
diversified and re-orientated? What is the role for new information and
communication technologies?
f. How it is possible to decentre and unsettle dominant narratives and
practices of urban planning, particularly through perspectives and
experiences from the global South?
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 250 words) to both convenors by
Friday 12th February 2010.
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