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CALL FOR PAPERS
Institute of Australian Geographers Conference
University of Tasmania, Hobart
29 June - 3 July, 2008
http://www.geol.utas.edu.au/iag/home.html
URBAN RESIDENTIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
(Sponsored by the Urban Geography Study Group)
The transforming socio-spatial structure of metropolitan areas is a
dominant theme in urban geographical research internationally. Processes
of globalisation, economic restructuring, along with governance,
demographic and socio-cultural transformations continue to generate
reconfigurations of urban structure, built form, social and spatial
organisation. These reconfigurations demand our ongoing attention. The
drivers and outcomes generated by diverse socio-political and geographical
contexts present a fertile ground for urban empirical and theoretical
research.
Urban residential environments are a key domain in which drivers of
metropolitan change intersect, reflected in the increased pace, extent and
complexity of established and emergent urban residential forms: private
residential estates, master-planned estates, brownfield residential
redevelopments, high-rise apartment blocks, new-build gentrified
developments, caravan parks and more. The impacts of this proliferation of
residential forms play out at the individual, household, neighbourhood and
city scale. They both reflect and drive changes in the nature of the
development industry, mechanisms of urban governance, patterns of urban
sociability, neighbourhood functioning, and understandings of home.
This session invites papers to generate discussion on the empirics and
theorisation of urban residential transformations. It aims to bring
together papers examining how emerging residential forms are impacting on
cities and citizens in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and more
broadly. Further, it aims to generate reflection on how to productively
theorise and critique these changes. Papers for this session may address,
but are not limited to, the following themes:
* The empirical scope, extent and nature of transformation to urban
residential form
* Mechanisms and implications for urban governance
* Residential form and urban sociability
* Structures of residential provision
* Cultural values, meanings of home and urban residential transformation
* Methodological approaches for understanding the lived realities of new
residential forms
* Implications for theorising the urban
Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be sent to the session
convenors by Monday March 10th.
Session convenors:
Therese Kenna, University of NSW: [log in to unmask]
Pauline McGuirk, University of Newcastle: [log in to unmask]
Robyn Dowling, Macquarie University: [log in to unmask]
UGSG: http://www.iag.org.au/iagstudy.html#urban
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