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Annual Meetings of the American Association of Geographers
3-7 April 2019, Washington DC
Call for papers
> Regional urbanization: unpacking the relationships between the metropolis and its megaregion
Organizers: Anna Growe, Heidelberg University, and Angelika Muenter, Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development
At least since the development of the global city-region concept (Scott 2001) based on the concept of global cities (Sassen 1991), the relationship of a metropolis and its surrounding region has loomed into focus in urban and economic geography. By now, it is generally accepted that urbanization processes increasingly occur at the regional scale. Edward Soja recently summarized this shift from a metropolitan to a regional model of urbanization in the concept of regional urbanization. The concept of regional urbanization describes the transition between urban and regional spaces where the duality between urban and suburban spaces dissolves (Soja 2012, 2015).
Recent developments of metropolises and their surrounding regions are shaped through divergent and partly contrary dynamics of concentration as well as de-concentration processes of jobs and households within the urbanized region. Economic geography and regional studies mainly analyse the processes of metropolization (concentration processes of economic functions; Krätke 2007, Florida et al. 2017) and regionalization (de-concentration processes of economic functions; Growe 2016, Phelps 2004) and focus on resulting polycentric and networked megaregions (Hall/Pain 2006, Danielzyk/Münter/Wiechmann 2016). At the same time, studies in urban and population geography describe the concentration and deconcentration processes of people and households in urbanized regions with the concepts of reurbanization (concentration processes of people and households; Brombach et al. 2017, Fishmann 2005, Rérat 2012) and suburbanization (deconcentration processes of people and households; Clapson 2003, Modarres/Kirby 2010).
Although traditionally addressed in different strands of geography, these economic and demographic processes do overlap and partly add to each other due to the comprehensive changes initiated by megatrends like the rising knowledge society and digitalisation. Thus, the session aims at an integrated discussion on processes influencing economic and demographic patterns of concentration and de-concentration in urbanized regions.
The session invites papers that deal with these and related issues. In particular, we encourage studies related to the following aspects:
• empirical papers dealing with economic and demographic processes of concentration and de-concentration in urbanized regions (e.g. metropolization, regionalization, suburbanization, reurbanization)
• also through a (cross-national) comparative perspective,
• theoretical contributions, discussing explanations of regional urbanization, in particular integrated perspectives on demographic and economic drivers
• methodological papers conceptualizing ways of analysing regional urbanization, and
• papers discussing possible political consequences of regional urbanization.
If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please send your abstract (of 250 words) to Anna Growe ([log in to unmask]) and Angelika Muenter ([log in to unmask]) by October 18th.
Abstract authors will be notified by Monday October 22, 2018 and those accepted must complete the abstract submission and conference registration process with the AAG before October 25, 2018
Keywords: regional urbanization, metropolization, regionalization, reurbanization, suburbanization, polycentric urban region, metropolis, megaregion
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