Dear All,
Please find our AAG 2012 call for papers on Time-Geographic Analysis of
Urban Social Sustainability attached. It is with high hopes that we ask for
your participation in our planned sessions. Failing that, we ask that you
share this call with any other potentially interested parties.
Sincerely,
Steve, Tijs and Donggen
AAG 2012 Call for Papers:
*Time-Geographic Analysis of Urban Social Sustainability*
Cities are commonly known to be the engines of national and global
economies. More and more, urban economic activities depend on innovation.
This in turn requires that we maintain urban environments that promote and
foster social vibrancy. With stifling congestion plaguing sprawling
metropolitan regions around the world, the vibrancy of cities are sorely at
stake. To date, there has not been much empirical research that assesses the
social condition of an urban area. One potential reason for this relative
dearth of academic research – in comparison to environmental and economic
dimensions – is that there are few analytical frameworks that can
appropriately represent the complexities of human spatial behavior and
powerfully assess the efficiency of land-use and transport systems with
respect to social vibrancy. In recent years, advancements in time-geographic
representations and implementations in GIS software have fueled the
re-emergence of the time-geographic analytical framework on the cutting edge
of applied land-use and transport research. To this end, we seek to organize
a session at the 2012 AAG dedicated to the empirical analysis of social
conditions in urban areas from the time-geographic perspective. Particular
areas of interest include:
- Social exclusion
- Time-use disparities
- Social segregation
- Inequalities in access
- Social interaction
- Transport disadvantage
- QoL and Subjective Well Being
We welcome your submissions. Please provide a title and 250-word
abstract for your work to Steven Farber ([log in to unmask]), Tijs
Neutens ([log in to unmask]) or Donggen Wang ([log in to unmask]) by
September 15th 2011. Feel free to contact us with any questions concerning
this call.
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