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REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2ND NORTH AMERICA CONFERENCE 2016 Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change Wednesday 15 th - Friday 17 th June 2016 Georgia Institute of Technology Historic Academy of Medicine Building Atlanta, Georgia, USA #RSAUSA2016 Abstract submission deadline: 28th February 2016 In the wake of the global financial crisis, cities have searched for new policies and practices capable of addressing major shifts in socio-economic relations at the urban and regional scale. These divergent and differentiated efforts have led to the intensification of underlying problems in some cities and a return to growth in others. Regional policies, particularly in the North American context, responded to economic challenges by adopting new technologies and new institutional and organizational forms to manage growth and change at the city scale. The result is a complex and uneven landscape of public and private actors delivering financial services, scaling-up supply chains, coordinating firm networks, diffusing process and material innovations, and organizing new forms of civic representation and participation. This conference provides a platform for researchers to address the effects of these policy, organizational, and institutional innovations and their impact on work, identity, governance, production networks, infrastructure investments, technology diffusion, and ultimately place. The conference will focus on the policy implications of emerging forms of governance and policy delivery relative to uneven development and inequality in a post-crisis era of ongoing market liberalization, financialization, and global competition. The inter-related processes of industrialization, urbanization, and regional and local development are complex. These processes pose a major challenge for regional policy, firstly for our conceptualizations of regional and urban development and, secondly, for specifying appropriate policy-fixes to provide the conditions for sustainable, smart, and equitable economic growth. The 2016 RSA North America Conference, in the 51 st Year of the Regional Studies Association, is an opportunity to discuss these issues, to chart future research imperatives, and to address concerns and challenges confronting policymakers and practitioners. The conference organizers are keen to attract papers and sessions addressing a broad research and policy agenda, including contributions from disciplines that offer relevant insights associated with recasting our cities and regions. Plenary Speakers Professor Susan Christopherson , Cornell University, USA Professor Karen Chapple , University of California, Berkeley, USA Dr. Dieter Kogler , University College Dublin, Ireland Professor Robin Leichenko , Rutgers University, USA Professor David Rigby , UCLA, USA Professor Matthew Zook , University of Kentucky Conference Themes A: Smart Cities, Smart Regions B: Regional Innovation: Theory, Methods, Practice C: Territory, Politics, Governance D: Sustainable Cities and Regions E: Emerging Community, Urban and Regional Identities F: Labor Markets in Cities and Regions G: Regional Economies: SMEs, Scale-Up and the Future of Production Networks The organisers welcome proposals for special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. If you would like to organise or offer a session to the conference please contact: Academic Organisers: Professor Jennifer Clark , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA RSA Organiser : Lesa Reynolds: [log in to unmask] For further information please visit: www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/conference/rsa-north-american-conf Regional Studies Association – 25 Clinton Place, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 1NP, UK Tel: + 44 (0)1323 899 698 –Email: [log in to unmask] Reg. Charity No. 1084165 – Reg. in England and Wales No. 4116288 -- Dr. Jennifer Clark Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Director, Center for Urban Innovation Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts , Georgia Institute of Technology DM Smith Building 685 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 USA tel. 404.385.7224 email. [log in to unmask]