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Final Call for Papers > > Apologies for cross-posting > > RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, 1st-3rd September, London UK > A Joint Sponsored Session of the Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) and > the Planning and Environmental Research Group (PERG) > > Urban Planning Terrains: Decentring Dominant Narratives > > Convenors > > Susan Moore (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) > [log in to unmask] > > Andrew Harris (Department of Geography, University College London) > [log in to unmask] > > Abstract > > This session aims to explore how urban planning techniques, strategies and > ideologies develop, travel, translate and diffuse. It will draw on recent > work on the mobility and assemblage of urban policies and policy-making, > while responding to a new emphasis on globalized 'planning cultures' > (Friedmann, 2005) within planning theory. Whilst broadly focused on the > concept of 'planning terrains' and the cultural and theoretical > implications of urban 'policies on the move' (McCann and Ward 2009), the > session seeks to challenge a reliance on idealised models of 'good cities' > that do not sufficiently account for the geographical and historical > specificity of urban places. In so doing, the session also aims to > complement and extend existing debates surrounding the > 'post-colonialization' of urban theory (Robinson, 2006) and a refocusing > of planning practice beyond dominant European and North American models > (Watson, 2009). > > Contributors will be encouraged to address the following questions and > themes: > > a. How are urban planning agendas and spatial typologies devised, > promoted, negotiated and circulated through particular types of > globalised networks? > b. What transfer agents, institutional interfaces, translation methods > and embodied practices are involved? What models, visual devices and > templates for learning are created and recruited? > c. How do models of urban planning account for and anticipate the > geographical and historical specificity of places? > d. What is the relationship between historical and contemporary > terrains of global planning practice and education? > e. How are global and regional urban planning and policy networks being > diversified and re-orientated? What is the role for new information and > communication technologies? > f. How it is possible to decentre and unsettle dominant narratives and > practices of urban planning, particularly through perspectives and > experiences from the global South? > > Please submit abstracts (of no more than 250 words) to both convenors by > Friday 12th February 2010. > > > > Dr. Susan Moore Lecturer in Urban Development and Planning The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL 4th Floor Wates House, 22 Gordon Street London, WC1H 0QB Email: [log in to unmask]