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Colleagues, the deadline for the urban Planning and Sustainability strands of this conference is December 5th. Papers on transport particularly welcome. Please share the call. Thanks you in advance. Conference: CRITICAL PRACTICE IN AN AGE OF COMPLEXITY. Place: University of Arizona, Tucson Dates: 22 – 23 February 2018 Abstracts: 05 Dec 2017 http://architecturemps.com/arizona/ Keynotes: Jane Rendell, UCL Other keynotes in this series of conferences include: ARUP ASSOCIATES CAT (Centre for Alternative Technologies) RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute) ECTP-CEU (European Council of Spatial Planners – Conseil européen des urbanistes) CABE. (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) RIBA. Royal Institute of British Architects http://architecturemps.com/arizona/ Context: Today, Donald Trump promises investment in infrastructure while simultaneously relaxing environmental regulations and targets. China continues to urbanize and pollute while industrial cities in the West continue to decline and ‘go green’. Internationally, global cities of commerce can be surrounded by slums and in many cities housing is unaffordable as a place of living while it functions as a major form of capital investment. Disciplines: Urban design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture and the social sciences. The conference is interdisciplinary and seeks to bring diverse perspectives, from engineering to art and design. The conference will be organized in appropriate strands. Publications: A special issue of the journal Architecture_MPS,ISSN 2020-9006 A conference proceedings publication. ISSN 2398-9467 A book publication as part of PARADE. PARADE: The conference is part of PARADE (Publication & Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments). PARADE brings together multiple publishers: Routledge Taylor&Francis, UCL Press, Intellect Books, Libri Publishing, UCL Press, Vernon Press and more. http://architecturemps.com/arizona/