----- 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS -----
Paradigmatic Cities?
A two-day conference organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th November 2006
Scottish Trade Union Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
*** See attached (1) registration form; (2) conference flyer; and (3)
directions to venue***
Spaces are still available! Please forward to any interested parties
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Urban studies has a long history of identifying particular cities as
emblematic of urbanism more generally. Through such processes certain cities
have emerged as 'obligatory points of passage' within the urban studies
literature: whether because apparently emblematic of particular 'urbanisms'
(for example, Paris as the birthplace of urban modernism, or Los Angeles as
the eponymous 'post-metropolis') or of more specific processes (for example,
revanchism = New York, diversity = Toronto).
Such tendencies have come in for sustained critique in recent years. Where
some have launched what might be termed a 'thin critique' (challenging the
paradigmatic status of one city, only to substitute that city for another),
others have mounted a more serious challenge to the identification of
'paradigmatic' cities per se. Yet despite these critiques, tendencies remain
in the urban studies literature to focus disproportionately on a small
number of cities, as well as to identify newly paradigmatic places (witness
the re-emergence of a 'Chicago School' at this year's AAG).
This two-day event aims to provide a forum for discussion and debate around
the epistemologies and politics of paradigmatic thinking in urban studies,
policy and practice.
To help foster discussion the event will be organised around a combination
of Key Note addresses, shorter position papers and group discussion.
Confirmed Key Note Speakers include:
Juliet Davis, Canterbury School of Architecture
Rob Imrie, King's College, London
Donald McNeill, King's College, London
Jenny Robinson, Open University
Registration:
£50 (Postgraduate/unwaged: £10)
Those interested in participating should complete and mail the attached
registration form, with registration fee enclosed, to:
Urban Geography Research Group
C/O Jennie Middleton
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
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**Deadline for registration: 20 October 2006**
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Questions can be directed to any of the following:
Jennie Middleton, King's College London ([log in to unmask])
Jon May, Queen Mary, University of London ([log in to unmask])
Gesa Helms, University of Glasgow ([log in to unmask])
Scott Rodgers, King's College London ([log in to unmask])
Information and attachments can also be downloaded from:
http://www.urban-geography.org.uk
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