Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, www.aag.org,
Seattle, WA, USA, April 12-16, 2011
Sessions: 1) Cities and Urban Regions in Latin America; 2) International
Institutions and/or Urban and Planning Issues.
Organizers:
Joel Outtes, GEST- Group for the Study of Societies and Territories, email
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Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: [log in to unmask]
Deadline: October 19, 2010
We invite paper proposals for a session on urban topics in developing areas and
internationally to take place at the annual meeting of the AAG (www.aag.org) in
Seattle, April 12-16, 2011. Papers might explore, but not be limited to
Economic restructuring and its spatial impacts
Changing urban morphology
Transnational linkages
Urban hierarchies
Historic city centers
Urban historical geography
Ethnic neighborhoods
City planning in Latin America
Criminality, urban gangs and the Geography of illegal territories
The informal sector
Intra-metropolitan mobility
The politics of urban environmental problems
Population Issues
Informal transportation and social conflicts
Participatory budget and urban social movements
Urban social geography
The International Planning Movement
The Urban International: the spatiality of international institutions such as
the IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning, UCLG-United Cities
and Local Governments, IULA-International Union of Local Authorities and
IHA-International Housing Association alone or in Comparative Perspective
After registering for the conference at http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/ and
submitting your abstract for a paper session, forward a copy of the abstract
and your PIN to:
Joel Outtes, GEST- Group for the Study of Societies and Territories, UFRGS,
email [log in to unmask] and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email:
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