[URBANTH-L]CFP: Global Suburbs Conference (Ann Arbor, MI)
Angela Jancius
jancius at ohio.edu
Thu Dec 13 17:37:17 EST 2007
[forwarded from H-Urban]
From: Vandana Baweja <vbaweja at umich.edu>
CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
<http://sitemaker.umich.edu/globalsuburbs>
GLOBAL SUBURBS CONFERENCE March 7- 8, 2008: Ann Arbor, Michigan
The faculty and students at the A. Alfred Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan are
organizing an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on
international metropolitan expansion, titled "Global Suburbs." This
conference will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 7-8, 2008. It
will bring together students and research scholars from various
disciplines, both within and outside of the University of Michigan,
to offer recent research and emerging perspectives on suburbanization
the world over.
Suburbanization is no longer solely the province of developed Western
countries. Peripheral metropolitan expansion is now a global
phenomenon and must be considered in new ways, be they within a
metropolitan framework, independently of central cities, or with
reference to rural surroundings. This conference seeks to examine
global suburban development broadly to understand not only the past
and present character of suburbia, but also with the hopes of
understanding and guiding future development.
Panel Theme Structure
Five broad themes are identified to guide presentations and panel
discussions toward various aspects of suburban scholarly research.
Proposals do not need to be submitted specifically on the suggested
themes.
Theme 1: Suburban Politics and History of Suburbs
(Public policy, real estate industry, public/private sector
relationship, migration)
Theme 2: Sustainable Development and Environmentalism
(Suburban infrastructure, growth management/farmland preservation,
transportation, environment and health, ecological impact of global
climate change)
Theme 3: Suburban Life
(Social justice, social aspirations, quality of life, housing,
poverty vs. prosperity, relationship between suburban living and
social formations such as race, gender and class)
Theme 4: Suburban Form
(Morphology and typology, rural + urban interface, design aspects)
Theme 5: Rethinking Suburbs
(Future of suburbs, re-densification of urban centers, center and the
periphery relationship, urbanizing suburbs)
Research may focus on any region of the world and presenters are
encouraged to submit work using traditional and/or innovative
research methods including archival research, spatial analysis,
surveys and oral histories or interpretive methods. Moreover,
presenters are encouraged to consider bodies of evidence from case-
specific cities and suburbs to their representations in film,
photography, literature and word media.
We invite abstracts from scholars in Architecture, Urban Planning,
Art History, Comparative Literature, History, Anthropology,
Sociology, Geography, Public Health, Public Policy and related
disciplines. Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. We
encourage the use of visual aids in all presentations.
Please submit a 500-word Abstract along with 5000-characters
Biographical Statement/s by January 3, 2008 to:
<globalsuburbs.papers at umich.edu>. For more information: <http://
sitemaker.umich.edu/globalsuburbs>.
Biographical Statement/s should be followed by the Abstract -
formatted in the following order:
Title of Paper, Name of the Presenter/s, Academic/other Affiliation,
500-word Abstract, Keywords.
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