Session title: Nordic light on the suburb as place, discourse and planning project
If you want to see how a city is developing and what goes on there, what the main planning problems are and the expressed ideas of how to solve them, taking a look at a city’s periphery is a good approach. Whether this periphery is of low or high status, whether it is the ‘edge city’ (Garreau 1992) or the ‘urban frontier’ (Neil Smith 1996), it is where both the contrasts of everyday life and the latest urban development endeavours can be observed.
This paper session wants to shed light on this peripheral but central location for contemporary cities and urban development, and open up for research and discussion on 'the suburb' as place, discourse and planning project in the Nordic countries. What goes on in Nordic suburbs in the form of development projects or ways of life? What are the dominant narratives or images concerning the suburb in the public discussion in the Nordic countries? Who is participating in these discussions or planning projects, and how? What types of places are at the centre of the debate, or of contemporary planning practice? What agendas are pursued? What are the implications of the (sub)urban discourses in the Nordic countries respectively?
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Paper abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to the session convener/s. Abstracts should have a maximum length of 250 words, in plain text, and be saved in Word format. Please adhere to the following format:
Name of the session
Title of the paper (lowercase letters)
Author’s name and e-mail
Author’s institutional affiliation
Body of the paper abstract
The selection of papers will be made by the session convener/s. Paper authors will be notified by 15 January and accepted abstracts will be published on the conference webpage. Session conveners will organize their sessions and coordinate the submission of papers and/or presentations.
The deadline to submit papers is 15 December. More info regarding the conference: http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017
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