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Advance notice of
PANEL SESSION AT THE 2007 MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN
GEOGRAPHERS IN SAN FRANCISCO
ALL WELCOME
Reclaim the City!
Has the city been taken away, in almost any meaningful sense, from
ordinary people? Is this the conveniently neglected other side to the
claim that 'cities are resurgent'? Globalization, often portrayed as a
powerful, inevitable, and top-down structural force, understood through
the concepts of neo-liberalism, gentrification and privatisation, shapes
the urban experience in a variety of ways. Has suburbanization become
part of that process?
The focus of the panel session is the statement 'Reclaim the City!',
part investigation, part call to action. Questions arise such as why/how
we need to reclaim our cities; what forms of resistance and alternatives
are there to these trends; are they necessary counter-trends towards
reclaiming the city - or perhaps towards effectively claiming it for the
first time? In recent years, these kinds of questions have animated much
of the scholarship appearing in 'City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Theory,
Policy, Action'. In this panel, editorial members,contributors and
guests to the journal City will discuss these trends and the
possibilities, strategies, and tactics of a progressive movement to
reclaim the city.
Sponsored by the journal City and the Urban Cultures and Consumption
Research Group, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK.
See
City: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13604813.asp
UCC: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/urban/
Chair
Bob Catterall
Participants
** Peter Hall, Professor of Planning and Regeneration at the Bartlett
School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, author
and leading urbanist of numerous books including 'Cities in
Civilization'
** Bob Catterall, founder and editor of the journal City.
** Loretta C. Lees, Reader in Geography at King's College London, UK
leading scholar on gentrification and co-author of the new Routledge
book 'Gentrification'.
** Elvin K. Wyly, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of
British Colombia, specialising in socio-political urban inequalities and
co-author of the new book 'Gentrification'.
** Paul Chatterton, Senior Lecturer in Geography at Leeds University,
activist-scholar and author of 'Urban nightscapes'.
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