CFP AAG Annual Meeting - Washington, DC, USA, April 3-7, 2019
Geographies of Land Use: Relationships of Planning, Property, and Law
(Session 1 of the Critical Geographies of Property, Land Use, and Planning Subconference)
Session Organizers:
Trevor Wideman, Simon Fraser University
Nick Lombardo, University of Toronto
Stephen Przybylinski Syracuse University
Sponsored by the Urban Geography Specialty Group
Land use planning and property controls are seemingly taken-for-granted elements of the urban socio-legal landscape. As such, their existence and operations often go unquestioned by many urban scholars. But recently, such scholars have begun to look at the relationships between land use, planning, property, and law, asserting that they are far from neutral (See Valverde 2005; Porter 2014; Fawaz 2016; Blomley 2017; Rutland 2018). Rather, such relationships frame how cities produce and reproduce themselves, particularly in the context of the liberal-democratic state. Furthermore, these mechanisms can also act as techniques of boundary-making, marginalization, and exclusion that have real and lasting effects - including reproducing logics of settler colonialism and reinforcing the inequalities inherent to capitalism.
Building on a set of conversations begun last year at the AAG, we seek papers that critically interrogate relationships between law, land use, planning, and property. This session will be part of a larger set of linked sessions, a subconference that deals with critical geographies of property, land use, and planning.
This session seeks papers that address the question of how such elements shape life in cities - what goes where, who can do what, and how they are challenged, in relation to the following keywords:
● waste / efficiency / productivity / improvement
● propriety / citizenship
● exclusion / valorization
● alternatives / challenges
Suggestions for paper topics include (but are not limited to): property law, environmental planning, resistance, gentrification, eminent domain, development, zoning, and everyday life in cities. We welcome papers that deal with a variety of geographical locations and temporal periods.
Please e-mail paper titles and abstracts to abstracts for this session to Trevor Wideman ([log in to unmask]) and Nick Lombardo ([log in to unmask]) by October 15, 2018. Abstracts may not exceed 250 words.
References:
Blomley, N., 2017. Land Use, planning, and the “difficult character of property.” Plan.
Theory Pract. 18, 351–364.
Fawaz, M., 2016. Planning and the making of a propertied landscape. Plan. Theory Pract.
9357, 1–20.
Porter, L., 2014. Possessory politics and the conceit of procedure: Exposing the cost of rights
under conditions of dispossession. Plan. Theory 13, 387–406.
Rutland, T., 2018. Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century
Halifax. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON.
Valverde, M., 2005. Taking “land use” seriously: toward an ontology of municipal law. Law
Text Cult. 9, 34–59.
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