Dear All,
We are organising a session at the next RC21 Conference (11th-13th
September, Leeds, UK). The session is titled: Urban transgressions and
informalities in the “Global North”
You can find the call below and at this: link
https://rc21leeds2017.wordpress.com/46-urban-transgressions-and-informalities-in-the-global-north/
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 10th March 2017. Abstracts (300-500
words)
should be sent by e-mail to francesco.chiodelli@gssi,
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Further details on abstract submission at:
https://rc21leeds2017.wordpress.com/
Best,
Francesco and Alessandro
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Urban transgressions and informalities in the “Global North”
The greater part of the international debate on urban “transgressions”
– and, more generally, on urban informality – related to realms of the
planning, construction and governance of the built environment deals
with cities in the so-called Global South. However, urban transgressions
are not absent in the “Global North”, for instance, in many southern and
eastern European countries, such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and
Croatia. Despite their long-standing existence and their quantitative
relevance, the features and causes of this kind on informality in these
areas are still poorly explored. Nevertheless, a very articulated
phenomenology of these urban transgressions seems to emerge (from
illegal occupation of public housing to ‘slum-style’ shacks, from
secondary residence by the sea to luxury villas by members of organised
crime groups). Their ultimate causal factors are varied as well (e.g.
necessity, cultural factors, institutional incentives and real estate
speculation).
Similarly, also a great variety of policy responses is observable: from
processes of planning formalization to national amnesties throughout
hard-nosed government interventions aimed at re-establishing the law
repressing informal behaviors.
The session aims to reason on these phenomena with a triple focus on
their features, causes and policy responses. A diverse range of
potential contributions is welcome, such as: qualitative, critical
explorations of specific, local case-studies; national and
cross-national comparative overviews; quantitative, geo-spatial accounts
and analyses; critical discussions of causal factors and policy
responses.
The focus will be mainly, but not exclusively, on urban transgression
as related to the realms of the planning, construction and governance of
the built environment.
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Francesco Chiodelli
Gran Sasso Science Institute
viale Francesco Crispi 7, L'Aquila (Italy)
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