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Apologies for cross posting. Second Call for Papers - AAG 2008 Boston, USA 15th-19th April 2008 Third way urban policy: Land and property markets, instruments and regulation 'I shall take it 'third way' refers to a framework of thinking and policy-making that seeks to adapt social democracy to a world which has changed fundamentally over the past two or three decades. It is a third way in the sense that it is an attempt to transcend both old-style social democracy and neoliberalism.' (Giddens, 1998, p. 26) So-called 'third way' urban policies refer to a more wide-spread concept than the Blair government's soft(er) (compared to harsh-neoliberal project of Thatcher) neoliberal policy development and implementation nowadays, and are now disseminating throughout the world. Third way urban policy refers to an era of rolled-out neoliberalism where many urban governments around the world seek ways to implement neoliberal policies and develop implementation instruments to ensure economic growth and to safeguard some kind of social justice at the same time. Entrepreneurialism and property-led development have been accelerated through the neo-liberal project, making urban land and property markets key players in urban regeneration. Naturally, instruments of neoliberalism have been adopted within different policy contexts at different periods of time and have therefore different meanings and outcomes in different institutional contexts. How do third way politics interact with land and property markets? How do land and property markets evolve within these ever shifting contexts? What new actors are emerging? How are new power relations between key actors being established? What new instruments (land and property market instruments, legal instruments, urban design instruments, economic instruments, etc) are being invented? How do changes in land and property markets reflect those changes? And how are these reflected in urban space? Papers in this session will take a critical approach to refer to two sides of the same coin: first, the particularities of policy development and the implementation via land and property markets of third way politics; and second, the changes in the urban development regime that aim to regulate the land and property market, and specific instruments that are developed to implement them. The main aim of this session is to put together a variety of approaches (to third way urban policy) to underline the growing diversity within the neoliberal urban policy implementation. Paper topics may examine themes such as: role of urban regeneration projects in neoliberal urban development, third way land and property market instruments, market-led development and social welfare, socially mixed communities, safe places, entrepreneurial policy and social justice, and importance of urban design. Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words before October, 15th to one of the following organizers: Guy Baeten, Lund University, Sweden, [log in to unmask] Tuna Tašan-Kok, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, [log in to unmask] Mark Boyle, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, [log in to unmask]