Below are details on infrastructure, sociology, social policy and human geography strands at the Livable Cities conference, New York. In-person and virtual presentations.
LIVABLE CITIES - NEW YORK
14-16, June 2023
Organisers: City Tech
Place: New York / Virtual
Early Abstracts: July 5th, 2022
https://amps-research.com/conference/livable-cities-new-york/
THEME OUTLINES
This conference seeks to develop several strands, each of which reflect the interests of the relevant departments at City Tech – New York: Social Science, African American Studies, and Human Services.
On this basis it is looking for responses from areas including sociology, race studies, human geography =, cultural studies and eth social sciences more broadly.
CALL SUMMARY
What makes a city livable? Transport, housing, health and environment. Matters of culture, entrepreneurship, crime and safety. Affordability and education. Depending on whose ‘livability index’ you look at, it may include design quality, sustainability and the digital infrastructures of the smart city. Other criteria applied may encompass food access, job opportunities or walkability. Inclusivity and the politics of participation also come into play.
The past two decades have seen an exponential rise of livability measures. Reflecting increased urbanity globally, they risk making the notion of the city ever more contested. For example, affordable housing is a neighbourhood issue. It is often linked to other questions: walkability, transport access, food deserts, and poor-quality public space.
Equally, the ‘Smart City’ can be treated as a technical issue. But it also raises questions of equality of access, surveillance, adaptive computing and human interaction – not to mention creative economies, business innovation and entrepreneurial cities.
The design of our neighborhoods and buildings is connected to public health, mental wellbeing and the ‘economics’ of healthy cities. In its turn, crime and public safety affect design through defensible space practices and strands of resilient city thinking.
Academics interested in participating should submit an abstract:
https://amps-research.com/conference/livable-cities-new-york/
Organizers: City Tech – New York (CUNY) with City, University of London and Amps.
Publishers: Routledge and UCL Press
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