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Apologies for cross posting. Second Call for Papers - AAG 2008 Boston, USA 15th-19th April 2008 Organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University UK) and Donald McNeill, University Western Sydney, Australia) Cultural economies of space design This session aims to consider how detailed studies of the agents and conditions of the production of urban space can invigorate existing theoretical discussions of the city. Architectural firms, property developers, interior designers, and software firms are now receiving increasing attention, not least because of the implications of their work for local/regional economies and development. In this session we aim to explore the business practices and strategies of these and other space designers. Potential topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): * the organisational tactics of firms and the way these influence the geographies of design; * theoretical debates relating to how space designers shape regional economies and milieu. * Evaluations of the conceptualisations of such agents as 'symbolic analysts' and alike * the way designers and their firms interact with and are part of the development of 'creative', 'cultural' industry clusters; * the geographical practices of architects and other designers; * the new international division of labour and design firms; Expressions of interest should be sent to James Faulconbridge ([log in to unmask]) and Donald McNeill ([log in to unmask]) in the form of an abstract acceptable to the AAG (see http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm#abstracts) by 9th October 2007. Dr James R Faulconbridge Lecturer in Human Geography Department of Geography Farrer Avenue Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YQ UK Telephone: +44(0)1524 510265 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.geog.lancs.ac.uk <http://www.geog.lancs.ac.uk/>