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Call for Papers. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting, Tampa, FL, USA, April 8-12, 2014. Sessions: 1) Cities and Urban Regions in the Americas; 2) International (Planning) Institutions and/or International Urban and Planning Issues. Organizers: Joel Outtes, GEST- Group for the Study of Societies and Territories, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email [log in to unmask] and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, USA, email: [log in to unmask] Deadline for proposal to our session: September 25, 2013. We invite paper proposals for a session on urban topics in the Americas and/or international institutions to take place at the annual meeting of the AAG (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting) in Tampa, FL, USA, April 8-12, 2014. Papers might explore, but not be limited to Economic restructuring and its spatial impacts Changing urban morphology Transnational linkages Urban hierarchies Historic city centers Urban historical geography Ethnic neighborhoods City planning in the Americas Criminality, urban gangs and the Geography of illegal territories The informal sector Intra-metropolitan mobility The politics of urban environmental problems Population Issues Informal transportation and social conflicts Participatory budget and urban social movements Urban social geography The International Planning Movement The Urban International: the spatiality of international institutions such as the IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning, UCLG-United Cities and Local Governments, IULA-International Union of Local Authorities and IHA-International Housing Association alone or in Comparative Perspective Please remember that participants must register and pay fees by October 23, 2014 (cheapest rate); please only apply to be in the session (05 papers maximun per session, there can be a series of sessions) if you are sure you will make the conference. If you are interested in be part of the session/s please send us your abstract and then (if you prefer after we aprove it) register and later send us your pin number whenever / as soon as possible. Thanks and all our best wishes, Joel Outtes, GEST- Group for the Study of Societies and Territories, UFRGS, email [log in to unmask] Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: [log in to unmask]