Spaces & Flows: Sixth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities
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“Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities”
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Dear Delegate,
Welcome to the Spaces & Flows: Sixth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. We are extremely happy you have chosen to join us in Chicago!
The conference brings forth a long-term dissecting of the contemporary human production of spaces and flows in contemporary societies. Our task in this conference is to critically elaborate and understand the continuously changing world of spaces and flows. A convergence of forces, e.g., neoliberalism, globalization, and transnationalism, foundationalize changing times whose dynamics continue to prove elusive. Our quest is to produce informed theory, empirical insight, and innovative policy on this topic. We are privileged and happy to have provocative plenary speakers addressing this topic, including Teresa Córdova and Byron Miller. At the same time, diverse papers drawn from multiple disciplines will provide depth and substance to the nuances of contemporary spaces and flows. Speakers are drawn from nearly twenty-five countries around the world, serving as further testimonial to the breadth and depth of this conference.
Next year, the conference will be held in Philadelphia, USA, 10-11 November 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania with the special focus, Planetary Urbanization in the Modern World.
In addition to the Spaces & Flows Conference, Common Ground also organizes conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including humanities, design, technology, learning, and the image, to name several (http://commongroundpublishing.com). Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are committed to creating a more accessible, open, and reliable peer review process. Alongside opportunities for well-known academics, we are creating new publication openings for academics from developing countries, for emerging scholars, and for researchers from institutions that are historically teaching-focused.
Thank you to everyone who has put such a phenomenal amount of work into preparing for this conference. A personal thank you goes to our Common Ground colleagues–Stephanie Ebersohl, Erin Madarieta, Aaron Clark, and Jessica Wienhold- Brokish.
We wish you all the best for this conference, and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe.
Yours sincerely, Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Director, Common Ground Publishing
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Exploring changing human spaces and the social, economic, and informational flows that connect these spaces Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community
The Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community is brought together around a shared interest in the changing shape of human spaces and the social, economic, and informational flows that connect these spaces. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a peer-reviewed journal, and a book imprint–exploring the affordances of the new digital media.
Conference The conference is built upon four key features: internationalism, interdisciplinarity, inclusiveness, and interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all continents and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
Publishing The Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums—a result of the responsive, non- hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer-review process. Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book imprint, Spaces & Flows, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome.
Community The Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly email newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Join the conversations on Facebook and Twitter, or explore our new social media platform, Scholar. Spaces & Flows Themes
On the changing Theme 1: Urban and Extraurban Spaces nature of the urban, • Urban modernity: its forms and dynamics and its relations to the • Property costs and the mortgage crisis ‘extraurban’ • Edge-urban spaces and ‘sprawl’ • De-urban spaces: processes and consequences of urban decay and ‘hollowing out’ • Micro-urban spaces: the changing role and dynamics of small urban communities • Greenfield spaces and regional development • Off-the grid spaces and development in formerly remote places • Globalization and its local effects • Economic development dynamics: changing sites of production and employment • Local and global labor markets • Socio-economic inequalities: proximities and distances • Ethnic and racial separation, juxtaposition, and integration
On the ecosystemic Theme 2: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects dynamics of different • Environmental effects: urban, edge-urban, de-urban, micro-urban, greenfield, off-the-grid human socio-spatial • Human and environmental sustainability configurations • Place and identity • Neighborhood in practice and imagination • Green dynamics: old and new energy systems • Land as resource • Agricultural dynamics: old and new food systems • Water dynamics: old and new sources and modes of access • Waste dynamics: old and new garbage, sewerage and disposal/recycling dynamics
On the flows of objects Theme 3: Material and Immaterial Flows and knowledge/ • Transportation infrastructures and patterns culture and the socio- spatial dynamics of • Local-global production flows contemporary life • Grid-nodality versus distributed grid structures • Dispersed versus centralized governance • Demographic and other data: measuring spaces in relation to flows • The spatiality of the internet • Commuting and telecommuting • Migration and diaspora • Shopping centers and shopping online • Learning sites and learning online • Culture in person and culture online • Old communications and information media and new • Planning processes: the practices of (re)configuring spaces and flows • Research agendas for spaces and flows Spaces & Flows 2015 Special Focus
Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities
Decline belt cities and places exist across the globe as central places that have felt the post 1975 wrath of substantial industrial shrinkage, significant population decline, and economic malaise. As recently identified, remarkably diverse responses to rejuvenate these places have unfolded and continue to unfold with new spaces and flows emerging. This conference centers as its theme the diversity of economic, political, and social transformations that have followed and continue as places adjust to new post-industrial times. As these places in North America Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania seek to re-make themselves in current times, what have they become? What are they becoming? What are the emerging social formations? Emerging political structures? Contradictions and possibilities in plans for growth and redevelopment? Current social struggles? Spaces & Flows Scope and Concerns
Spaces Following are some of the spaces that are the concern of this conference, journal, book imprint, and online community. Each is distinctive. Each is a critical site in this transitionary moment. All are profoundly interconnected, in new as well as old ways.
Urban Spaces The distinctiveness of the urban has risen historically from the pragmatics and aesthetics of collocation, contiguity, propinquity. Grounded in the virtues and pragmatics of proximity, the urban has been the site of peculiarly intensive development (commerce, industry, employment). It has been a focal point of what has been regarded as ‘civilization’ (cultural practices, institutions, iconic edifices, and intense meaning-places). But what if intensively physical-spatial agglomeration were to begin to matter less—because, perhaps, other modes of social proximity were increasingly available and put into motion for the purposes of production, community, and personal life? And what if intensive physical-spatial contiguity was starting to come at economic, environmental, and social costs that are now regarded as too high? What, then, of other spaces?
Edge-Urban Spaces The world’s largest cities have become so large that, at their edges, they are no longer viably urban. At this point, the centers of energy of people’s lives increasingly become local, located in distinctively edge-city industrial ‘zones’, office ‘parks’, shopping malls, colleges, and recreational facilities. Often disparagingly called ‘sprawl’ for the absence of the rigors of urban planning, the edge-urban may also breed social movements intensely protective of natural aesthetics, built form, and post-industrial agricultural values. Looking out from the city, edge-urban spaces may appear to be distressingly fragmented, sites of anti- urban ‘dispersed nucleation’. From another point of view, however, they are increasingly autonomous spaces attempting to deliver on values and lifestyles not so readily available in cities.
De-Urban Spaces The de-urban is the formerly urban, apparently dead spaces in cities, spaces that seem to have been ‘hollowed out’, stripped of urban vitality. These spaces might be collapsing suburbs in big cities—literally when condemned buildings are demolished. At times, all that is left is a checkerboard of buildings interspersed with ‘urban prairies’. Or they might be smaller cities and towns which have imploded as key industries leave. However, often times these spaces appear tragically dead more from the perspective of their intensively urban past than they do from the perspective of their extraurban potentials. They are also spaces where, in a very uncitylike way, half-decent houses, shops, and factories can be bought or rented at low cost. So, amongst the new signs of life in these places, we see the poor and people on welfare returning for more spacious housing, arts and craft colonies emerging where there is next-to-no home or warehouse overhead, middle-class people purchasing decaying mansions to renovate, former main streets being filled out with recycling facilities and collectables stores, and community- maintained urban parks and food gardens.
Micro-Urban Spaces Towns and cities of 10,000, 50,000, or even 200,000 people are not archetypically urban, either. Yet many are sites of dynamic growth, as ‘new economy’ employers move to locations where property and labor are significantly cheaper than large cities. Unlike the ‘small towns’ of our stereotypical imaginations, these places have increasingly fluid and diversified populations, both in terms of socio-economic differentiation and the ethnic origins of newcomers. Other instances of the micro-urban include slums or former slums that are cities unto themselves, from the rudimentary planning of the ‘townships’ of South Africa, to the energetic village-like qualities of the slums of Mumbai or Rio de Janeiro, places of architecture without architects, of intensely (extra)urban human activity without social engineering or urban planning. Spaces & Flows Scope and Concerns
Greenfield Spaces Beyond the edge-urban, and outside of the micro-urban are various forms of ‘greenfield’ life, in rural hamlets, on farms, in holiday houses, in retirement villages, in forest cabins or beach shacks, in caravan and mobile home ‘parks’. Industry may purposefully locate near these places, archetypically in contrast with its formerly urban ‘rustbelt’ locations. Scientific- rationalist, intellectual property-intensive monocultural farming may provide forms of agricultural employment, but equally boutique, organic, and retirement farms, promoted with the cache of ‘local foods’ or ‘slow foods’.
Off-the-Grid Spaces In formerly remote places—in mountains, forests, coastlines, and deserts—off-the-grid energy sources and online and physical deliveries make it possible to live virtually urban, socially and culturally proximate lives. These are also spaces for increasingly autonomous yet globally integrated indigenous or first-nation communities.
Extraurbia: These Other Spaces The term ‘extraurbia’ is intended to capture some newly significant continuities across these other-than-urban spaces. It is a conceptual fulcrum for analysis of changed dynamics across these spaces, the emerging dimensions of which might be considered to ‘urban plus’—most of what the heritage-urban offered to enhance human energies, plus things that the urban can no longer so easily provide. In this regard, the shape of today’s emerging sociospatial flows is telling.
Flows What is happening in all these spaces, and especially in these the extraurban spaces, which may be a catalyst for new flows which define and redefine each space? Here are some material, convivial, and representational aspects of change that examine in this conference, journal, book imprint, and online knowledge community.
Material Aspects Propertyscapes To start with the banal—real estate prices trigger a cascade of profound consequences. Real property in the spaces extraurbia has over the past few decades become relatively much cheaper than urban property. This is a global phenomenon, and two-fold development. On the one hand, city property prices have become exorbitantly high, and even when extraurban prices have risen, they have mostly risen at a slower pace. The urban-extraurban cost gap has grown. On the other hand, as the historic advantages of physical-spatial proximity wane, costs of property in cities are no longer a matter of necessity for households and employers.
Flowpaths Here are some characteristically extraurban flowpaths: Telecommute because you are an online teacher or because you are a designer who works from a home office; or at least travel less because your person-to-person work does not require you to travel to work every day; or travel a short distance because homes and workspaces are collocated in mixed developments, or in places of closer differential zoning. Do your shopping online, a move which turns a privatized flow (drive to the shops) to a socialized flow, and one which is much more efficient in terms of time and energy use. Sometimes the product is a frictionless download away, through shared infrastructure of the social web (a song, an ebook, a movie). Other times, physical delivery is through the burgeoning public transport delivery system, the remarkably cheap and efficient shared transport system of trains, planes, and delivery vans. Go to the nearby market, and you’ll not have to go far, because markets making virtue of their localness are proliferating. Despite its spatial dispersal, extraurbia may well be a geography of driving less. It may represent new transportation efficiencies. In-person travel—to a meeting (when not a virtual meeting), to an in-person class Spaces & Flows Scope and Concerns
(when not an online class), to an aesthetically different recreational space (when not on documentary TV or video)—can then become a matter of now-and-then choice rather than daily necessity. In all these scenarios, the logistical practicalities and efficiencies of contiguity which characterized the city may prove anachronistic. Paradoxically, a common property in the shift to extraurbia may not be more transportation across greater distances and private transportation, but reduced physical movement of people and goods, and increasingly co-ordinated or socialized systems of transportation.
Extrastructures The infrastructures of the urban were grounded in the economies of proximity in the creation of nodally oriented electricity, water and sewerage distribution systems, and the urban-to-urban nodality of transport and energy grids. These infrastructural logics favor spatial centralization and collocation. However, it is possible that they could come under challenge from what we will call ‘extrastructures’, or decentralized, relatively autonomous sites of production such as onsite solar, wind or geothermal energy on or off the grid, efficient grey water recycling, rain water collection, or rubbish composting. As these technologies rapidly develop and become cheaper, they could present a practical and more affordable alternative to the extraordinarily costly grid infrastructures. And as the social desire to be green picks up momentum, these extrastructures will become more environmentally virtuous than the grid. Such extrastructures are better suited to extraurban spaces. They are harder and more expensive to build in the traditional city.
Productionscapes Extraurbia offers a panoply of job opportunities for workers, from knowledge work in new economy businesses, to close-to- the-field food processing. The pay may be lower than in big city jobs, but the costs of living (primarily housing) are lower still. The result is a better standard of living at all levels of the labor market. At the same time, these are the quintessential sites of new and old production—from the innovation industries of R&D and design, to the new information sweatshops such as call centers, to high-tech manufacturing, to relocated old-economy industries such as hand-crafted furniture and abattoirs. There are also places of affordable and somewhat more agreeable retirement, reduced hardship for those living on welfare benefits, not to mention intensified exploitation of unskilled and newly arrived migrant labor, be these documented or (less visibly so than in the big city) undocumented migrants. So, across the various spaces of extraurbia we may see the development of new modes of production, at least subtly different in some significant ways to the modes of production characteristic of cities.
Consumptionscapes New modes of production spawn new modes of consumption. The focal point of consumer energy during the twentieth century shifted from one iconic urban site to another, from the downtown with its main street to the shopping mall and the big box stores at the edge of the inner city or in the middle of the suburbs. Inefficiencies and cost structures may, however, spell the end of both malls and big box stores. The online megastores have a breadth of inventory with which no bookstore or video store or department store from the era of spatially massed shopping could ever compete. Then there is the myriad of specialist stores with narrower focal points than any retailers of the recent past—a store just for faucets, or light dimmers, or light bulbs. These stores have a depth of product offering, online information, and live help, that no conventional specialist store could ever have. They run on databases with filter mechanisms which mean you can sensibly sort what you want from five thousand faucets or one thousand light bulbs. This brings products to light that no browsing along physical shelves ever could. Then there are the small manufacturers who produce on-demand—the metal shop manufacturer which makes stainless steel sinks and delivers them to order for much less than the big manufacturers, the cutting board manufacturer who will make boards to any size you order, the artists and craftspeople with online galleries, the boutique vineyards who sell their wine online and globally. Finally, there is the eBay economy which blurs the very distinction of consumer and seller, and creates a market agnostic to retail scale, a place for miniscule sellers alongside major buyers. Myriad new enterprises reconfigure Spaces & Flows Scope and Concerns
the supply chain in quite fundamental ways, cutting out many of its more expensive layers of warehousing, distribution, and physical retail display. Most importantly, however, they don’t need to be near consumers—they can be, and are, located most competitively in the least expensive reaches of extraurbia. They offer a deeper, broader, more engaging consumer experience, and, for the money, they offer more of it. Of course, these new modes of consumption are available to city dwellers, too. It’s just that, at a particular level of income, people in extraurbia can do more of it, and city dwellers have lost their costly historic advantage of being close to ‘good stores’ based on larger markets or ‘good value stores’ based on economies of large scale.
Socioscapes In an earlier modernity, the spatial separations of extraurbia created social divides and ethnic separations. They were places of ‘white flight’, of small town insularity, of cultural and demographic stasis. They became the proverbial stuff of ‘rural idiocy’ and rigid class segregations. They were an escape from the city, which seemed from an outsider’s perspective to be swarming with immigrants, conflicted by the claims of social movements, afflicted by social problems, and made dangerous by the juxtapositions of the poor alongside the affluent. If extraurbia offers advantages to everyone, these patterns may be changing. Extraurban spaces may become sites of opportunity and improved lifestyle for all—for refugees, documented or undocumented immigrants, the poor, the middle classes, and the affluent. Places that had been demographically homogenous are becoming cosmopolitan.
Ecoscapes From an environmental point of view, the extraurban can at times be a site of particular horrors, for out-of-sight is out-of- mind—in cases of mountain top mining, or aggressive farming practices, or large scale burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity, for instance. However, it also has peculiar advantages in the introduction of new environmental technologies. Extraurbia is especially well suited to the introduction of the ‘extrastructures’ of post-grid, de-nodal energy production. On- site composting and grey water recycling are more practicable alternatives in extraurbia and potentially cheaper per capita than the waste disposal infrastructures of big cities. Extraurbia, in other words, can be more cheaply and easily green. In fact, the sites of primary engagement, and thus the burden of environmental responsibility, falls primarily in extraurbia, for this is where the energy for cities is generated, the food produced, the building materials sourced, the sewerage pumped and the rubbish dumped. From the perspective of the city, the environment is an external site of referred pain, a site of collateral damage, and for this reason a site of merely abstract concern. Extraurbia, by comparison, may become the focal site for protest as well as action in the creation of new ecoscapes.
Convival Aspects Governance For their dispersal, for their smallness, for their relative autonomy from the heavy and urban-centered structures of the state, for the comparatively unformed informality of their institutions of civil society, the spaces of extraurbia may allow the possibility of more devolved, flexible, and responsive modes of governance, engaging a greater proportion of their populations. Compared to the city, the relative institutional thin-ness of these spaces presents dangers—of hyper-exploitation, neoliberal lawlessness, and poor planning. But on the other hand, extraurban spaces may also offer possibilities in the form of ‘quiet encroachment’ of participatory self-governance and what might be called, for their unassuming activism, ‘social non- movements’. Spaces & Flows Scope and Concerns
Communities Every demographic has its peculiar reasons to move to the spaces of extraurbia—retired people for a quasi vacation lifestyle, families for their children, gays for places of shared style, immigrants and refugees for an entry point into the labor market. Increasingly, extraurbia becomes a place of cosmopolitan community. For this reason, intersectional rainbow coalitions may form in these spaces, as newly integrated communities face cutting-edge workplace, environmental, or educational issues.
Identities Historically, cities sorted demographics into spatially distinguishable neighborhoods, or quarters, or ghettoes. Extraurban spatial sorting may prove to be less rigorous, and this in part supported by a broader trend to viable post-territorial identities, ending the conventionally framed isomorphisms of space and social form and the ascription of cultural authenticity or essence to space. In the era of digital communications and online community, person-to-person collocation is less needed in order to maintain diaspora, or knowledge community, or fashion, or fad, or fetish. Here we see a dynamics of difference emerging that is less determined by space, and for this, it is more complex and multilayered.
Representation Aspects Communications In the new communications environment, sharing of meaning becomes less dependent on the heritage synergies of collocation or economics of contiguity. Facebook creates a never-before envisaged shape of proximity in life narratives. Voice-over- internet and videoconferencing remove diseconomies of distance. Mobile phones ‘roam’ as if location were immaterial. People in cities have no better access to good newspapers than people beyond their print distribution reach. In any event, mass market newspapers, grounded in economies of large scale, find they are competing with disruptive economies and qualities of small scale—the thematically particular blogs, the micromedia that cover a few hundred households, the slicing and dicing of information in blogs that reaggregate and link from one perspective or another. In all of these respects, the city loses its communicational advantages.
Innovation Where does innovation increasingly occur? On university campuses that have for a long time been located outside of big cities, in university towns for instance which are distinctively attractive for precisely that. Or in the research ‘parks’ which incubate enterprises spun-off from university originated IP. Or in the new economy multinationals which are headquartered out of big cities or which have their R&D divisions located outside of cities. Or the R&D startups that take advantage of lower overheads and regional incentives offered more commonly in one or other of the spaces of extraurbia.
Knowledge Transfer And finally, how is knowledge transferred intergenerationally? The answer will in part be through environments of ubiquitous learning, ranging from online degrees, to small local schools relying on online infrastructure, and beyond the conventional classroom or training room, on and through networked mobile devices, where learning can happen any place and anytime, just enough and just in time (Cope and Kalantzis 2009). As the spatio-institutional walls of the traditional school come down, there need be no location-defined educational disadvantage.
These are disconcerting times in many respects. When we think about spaces and flows, who until recently could have imagined that the city might cede many of its magnetic advantages to the not-city? That day may soon be arriving. And when it does, we might also be able to transfer lessons learnt in extraurban spaces to make our cities better places. We will all be extraurban then. Spaces & Flows Community Membership
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Scholar also answers one of the most fundamental questions students and instructors have of their performance, “How am I doing?” Typical modes of assessment often answer this question either too late to matter or in a way that is not clear or comprehensive enough to meaningfully contribute to better performance.
A collaborative research and development project between Common Ground and the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Scholar contains a knowledge community space, a multimedia web writing space, a formative assessment environment that facilitates peer review, and a dashboard with aggregated machine and human formative and summative writing assessment data.
The following Scholar features are only available to Common Ground Knowledge Community members as part of their membership. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like the complimentary educator account that comes with participation in a Common Ground conference.
• Create projects for groups of students, involving draft, peer review, revision, and publication. • Publish student works to each student’s personal portfolio space, accessible through the web for class discussion. • Create and distribute surveys. • Evaluate student work using a variety of measures in the assessment dashboard.
Scholar is a generation beyond learning management systems. It is what we term a Digital Learning Platform— it transforms learning by engaging students in powerfully horizontal “social knowledge” relationships. For more information, visit: http://knowledge.cgscholar.com. Spaces & Flows Journal
Committed to addressing pressing social, cultural, economic, and environmental questions, focusing on spaces and flows as crucibles and vectors of ongoing transformation Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Spaces & Flows Urban and ExtraUrban Studies
About Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies addresses some of the most pressing and perturbing social, cultural, economic, and environmental questions of our times, focusing on spaces and flows as crucibles and vectors of ongoing transformation.
The journal discusses two central issues: • What are the new and emerging spaces of production, consumption, and human living as communities, regions, and societies organize and re-organize in contemporary times? • What are the new flows of people, goods, services, information, and ideas in current times? How are they being constructed and how are they functioning?
In addressing these questions, our discussions range between the local and the global, the empirical and the theoretical, the utopian and the pragmatic, the disciplinary and the transdisciplinary, research and its application, and the practices of knowledge making and those of knowledge dissemination.
Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies is peer-reviewed, Indexing SocINDEX supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced quantitative ranking and qualitative SocINDEX with Full Text commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is Sociology Source International published.
Founded: 2010 Editor
Publication Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA September, December)
ISSN: 2154-8560 (print) 2154-8579 (online) Associate Editors Articles published in Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban spacesandflows.com Studies are peer reviewed by scholars who are active members of the Spaces and Flows Knowledge ijf.cgpublisher.com Community. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow submitters to the journal, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground’s editorial team). This engagement with the knowledge community, as well as Common Ground’s synergistic and criterion-based evaluation system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to the Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies’ Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the journal. Spaces & Flows Submission Process
Journal Submission Process and Timeline Below, please find step-by-step instructions on the journal article submission process:
1. Submit a conference presentation proposal.
2. Once your conference presentation proposal has been accepted, you may submit your article by clicking the “Add a Paper” button on the right side of your proposal page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the final submission deadlines. (See dates below)
3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If your article satisfies these requirements, your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate referees and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www. CGPublisher.com.
4. When both referee reports are uploaded, and after the referees’ identities have been removed, you will be notified by email and provided with a link to view the reports.
5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be required to submit a change note with your final submission, explaining how you revised your article in light of the referees’ comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it once, with a detailed change note, for review by new referees.
6. Once we have received the final submission of your article, which was accepted or accepted with revisions, our Publishing Department will give your article a final review. This final review will verify that you have complied with the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), and will check any edits you have made while considering the feedback of your referees. After this review has been satisfactorily completed, your paper will be typeset and a proof will be sent to you for approval before publication.
7. Individual articles may be published “Web First” with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All issues are published 4 times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume).
Submission Timeline You may submit your article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines are as follows: • Submission Round 1 – 15 January • Submission Round 2 – 15 April • Submission Round 3 – 15 July • Submission Round 4 (final) – 15 October
Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for the volume, it will be considered for the following year’s volume. The sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, because we publish “Web First,” early submission means that your article may be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full issue is published. Spaces & Flows Common Ground Open
Hybrid Open Access All Common Ground Journals are Hybrid Open Access. Hybrid Open Access is an option increasingly offered by both university presses and well-known commercial publishers.
Hybrid Open Access means some articles are available only to subscribers, while others are made available at no charge to anyone searching the web. Authors pay an additional fee for the open access option. Authors may do this because open access is a requirement of their research-funding agency, or they may do this so non-subscribers can access their article for free.
Common Ground’s open access charge is $250 per article–a very reasonable price compared to our hybrid open access competitors and purely open access journals resourced with an author publication fee. Digital articles are normally only available through individual or institutional subscriptions or for purchase at $5 per article. However, if you choose to make your article Open Access, this means anyone on the web may download it for free.
Paying subscribers still receive considerable benefits with access to all articles in the journal, from both current and past volumes, without any restrictions. However, making your paper available at no charge through Open Access increases its visibility, accessibility, potential readership, and citation counts. Open Access articles also generate higher citation counts.
Institutional Open Access Common Ground is proud to announce an exciting new model of scholarly publishing called Institutional Open Access.
Institutional Open Access allows faculty and graduate students to submit articles to Common Ground journals for unrestricted open access publication. These articles will be freely and publicly available to the whole world through our hybrid open access infrastructure. With Institutional Open Access, instead of the author paying a per-article open access fee, institutions pay a set annual fee that entitles their students and faculty to publish a given number of open access articles each year.
The rights to the articles remain with the subscribing institution. Both the author and the institution can also share the final typeset version of the article in any place they wish, including institutional repositories, personal websites, and privately or publicly accessible course materials. We support the highest Sherpa/Romeo access level—Green.
For more information on how to make your article Open Access, or information on Institutional Open Access, please contact us at [email protected]. Spaces & Flows Journal Awards
International Award for Excellence Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies presents an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking in the area of urban and extraurban studies. All articles submitted for publication in Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies are entered into consideration for this award. The review committee for the award is selected from the International Advisory Board for the journal and the annual Spaces & Flows Conference. The committee selects the winning article from the ten highest-ranked articles emerging from the review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the reviewer guidelines.
Volume 5 Award Winner Mohammad Ali Behbahani, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
For the Article “Studying the Level of Integration of Singapore as an Asian-Pacific Global City”
Abstract This paper studies the level of integration of Singapore, a global city, among leading subnets in the world cities network. Particularly, economic aspects of globalization in Singapore as an Asia Pacific city are examined. Within this general framework, the article pursues three specific aims. The first is to provide a comprehensive review of the literature and views of scholars on globalization, and the world cities network. Here, Taylor and Sassen’s theories are the main literature chosen to review which seem to be widely interlinked. The second is to apply the facts collected from literature in the first section on Singapore, to examine its position in the network of global cities. The third and final aim is to conclude the study by creating a particular framework on how to evaluate the level of integration of a global city within the world cities network with respect to specific dimension. In addition, the paper reflects on two debates: one on the nature of comparative analysis, and the other on the normative nature of rankings and charts for examining it. The results of this article would help policy-makers and planners on national and international levels, who are focused on economic aspects, to derive normative ideas to implement policies and strategies for the economic development of cities. Spaces & Flows Journal Awards
Volume 4 Award Winner Vanessa Mooney, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
For the Article “Redefining the UGB: Melbourne’s Urban Growth Boundary and the Potential of the Threshold”
Abstract Since its inception in 2004, the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) to the outermost limits of Melbourne, Australia, has undergone several formal amendment (expansion) processes. Change is inherent to this peripheral area where non-urban land is redefined as urban. Also inherent to this edge is an ambiguity, as the UGB is neither marked nor signposted; its exact location is unacknowledged. While the UGB remains a mapped entity with zero thickness, it signifies the site of a threshold condition within a landscape through which the conditions of both urban (suburban, industrial etc.) and non-urban (rural, recreational, etc.) can be observed. This paper presents design research that, through a site-based installation, brings a series of questions relating to the UGB and the threshold it creates into focus. Drawing from the traditions of land-art and guided by the land surveying axiom of “monument over measure,” a section of the UGB is “staked out” using conventional land surveying materials and transforming a mapped element into a physical one. With the UGB located, the site-specific urban/ non-urban condition it generates is considered, and in doing so the meaning of the UGB, now as a site, is renewed.
Volume 3 Award Winner Prof. Nick Dunn, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
For the Article “The End of Architecture? Networked Communities, Urban Transformation and Post-capitalist Landscapes”
Abstract Through its commoditization and acquiescence to the demands of the market, architecture has increasingly become marginalized, if not circumvented, from its role as an aid to humanity and society. It is therefore proposed that if we are to consider the future transformation of our cities, then the communities within them must be given priority as stakeholders. The legibility of on-the-ground conditions and the communication of community needs and aspirations through collective intelligence will become ever-pressing concerns as the pressure for space and amenities in our cities increases in favour of late capitalist occupation and mobility rather than as shared resource for all. If, as both Fredric Jameson (1994) and, more recently, Mark Fisher (2009) have suggested, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” then we need to fundamentally rethink the means through which we may achieve effective, adaptive and contingent political mobilization to positively alter the urban landscape. The potentially reformative power of data, ceded to the masses, may provide the necessary impetus toward a substantial restructuring of the city, but only if its systems are capable of negotiating the attendant issues of governance, antitrust policy and security measures. If we really are living in the end times of Žižek, we need to energetically and openly engage with the provision of a framework to evolve “intelligent terrain” that is participatory and enabling. This paper therefore seeks to respond to the material and immaterial flows that constitute the contemporary urban condition in relation to its governance, communities, and the (re)configuration of space. Spaces & Flows Journal Awards
Volume 2 Award Winner Rebecca Katkin, California College of the Arts, Oakland, USA
For the Article “Urban Agriculture: Symbiotic Transformations of Cities and Food Systems”
Abstract As the world population grows and urbanizes, urban hunger and malnutrition are also on the rise. As global food systems fail to sustainably and equitably meet the need, urban, micro-urban, and edge-urban landscapes emerge as critical sites of agricultural production. With elegant symbiosis, urban environmental degradation and harm caused by conventional food systems can be ameliorated by the introduction of sustainably implemented urban agriculture. Taking various forms according to “the genius of [each] place,” urban agriculture makes our cities more healthy and beautiful, reduces erosion, heat islands, pollution, water and fuel consumption, promotes biodiversity, and provides secure access to nutritious food for millions who lack it now. Urban agriculture transforms both our cities and food systems for the better. Wes Jackson, Amory Lovins, and others have shown the environmental toll of industrialized farming, and proposed a reevaluation that would provide an honest accounting of agricultural resource use and destruction. This paper provides an overview of urban and food-system maladies that can be addressed through urban and edge-urban agriculture, and lays out an urban agrarian idea, following Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan, of how we might relate to nature in order for cities and productive landscapes to coexist harmoniously; it examines sustainable technologies that will allow urban agriculture to address our nutritional and environmental needs, explores the associated dynamics of water and waste recapture, and finally poses questions and offers suggestions about what the emergent spaces of urban agriculture might look like in the near future—and how they can transform our cities, formally and culturally. Ideas presented in this paper are illustrated by student work from the upper division interdisciplinary design studio the author teaches at California College of the Arts, “Design for Tomorrow’s Urban Agriculture.” Spaces & Flows Subscriptions and Access
Community Membership and Personal Subscriptions As part of each conference registration, all conference participants (both virtual and in-person) have a one-year digital subscription to Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. This complimentary personal subscription grants access to the current volume as well as the entire backlist. The period of complimentary access begins at the time of registration and ends one year after the close of the conference. After that time, delegates may purchase a personal subscription.
To view articles, go to http://ijf.cgpublisher.com/. Select the “Login” option and provide a CGPublisher username and password. Then, select an article and download the PDF. For lost or forgotten login details, select “forgot your login” to request a new password.
Journal Subscriptions Common Ground offers print and digital subscriptions to all of its journals. Subscriptions are available to Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies and to custom suites based on a given institution’s unique content needs. Subscription prices are based on a tiered scale that corresponds to the full-time enrollment (FTE) of the subscribing institution.
For more information, please visit: • http://spacesandflows.com/journal/subscribe • Or contact us at [email protected]
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Aiming to set new standards in participatory knowledge creation and scholarly publication Spaces & Flows Book Imprint
Call for Books Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.
We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of: • Individually and jointly authored books • Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme • Collections of articles published in our journals • Out-of-copyright books, including important books that have gone out of print and classics with new introductions
Book Proposal Guidelines Books should be between 30,000 and 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats and are available through Amazon and as Kindle editions. To publish a book, please send us a proposal including: • Title • Author(s)/editor(s) • Draft back-cover blurb • Author bio note(s) • Table of contents • Intended audience and significance of contribution • Sample chapters or complete manuscript • Manuscript submission date
Proposals can be submitted by email to [email protected]. Please note the book imprint to which you are submitting in the subject line. Spaces & Flows Book Imprint
Call for Book Reviewers Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts.
As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication process.
Common Ground recognizes the important role of reviewers by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the Editorial Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website.
If you would like to review book manuscripts, please send an email to [email protected] with: • A brief description of your professional credentials • A list of your areas of interest and expertise • A copy of your CV with current contact details
If we feel that you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you. Spaces & Flows Book Imprint
The Politics of the Urban Sustainability Concept David Wilson (ed.)
The Politics of the Urban Sustainability Concept explores the widely proclaimed urban sustainability vision that has swept across urban landscapes of the global west like a tidal wave. This planning vision, mixing with notions of “smart growth”, “regional planning”, and “sustainable cities”, now dots urban environments in cities big, medium, and small. This book critically interrogates this vision and practices for the concrete material realities it produces for all urban citizens. This book is inspired by recent calls for a “just sustainability”. Here, urban sustainability is considered through the lenses of things scantily considered: human rights, equality in access to resources and facilities, and the production of economic opportunities and decent qualities of life for all. This book reveals a city growth and redevelopment vision that can be deeply problematic in who it serves and how it reconfigures urban environments. Often, favoring of the affluent in orientation, this problematic vision too often relies on a failed expectation that benefits will trickle down to all. It legitimizes the building of flagrantly segregated, profoundly splintered cities as a now powerful neoliberal tool in current political and ISBN—978-1-61229-799-6 economic realities. Cloaked in a mix of ambiguity and class-based specificity the urban sustainability 166 Pages vision threatens to magnify already vexing inequalities in many cities across the globe. Community Website: spacesandflows.com Editor Bio: David Wilson is professor of Geography, Urban Planning, African American Studies, and the Unit Bookstore: spacesandflows. for Criticism and Interpretive Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has cgpublisher.com published more than 60 articles in leading journals. His most recent books are Urban Inequalities Across the Globe (Routledge, 2015), Cities and Race: America’s New Black Ghetto (Routledge, 2007), and Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation (Syracuse University, 2005). He has served on the editorial boards of Urban Geography, Professional Geographer, Social and Cultural Geography, Acme: International Journal of Critical Geography, and the Geography Journal. Spaces & Flows Conference
Curating global interdisciplinary spaces, supporting professionally rewarding relationships Spaces & Flows About the Conference
Conference History Founded in 2010, Spaces & Flows: An International Conference brings together scholars, teachers, and practitioners around a common shared interest in changing human spaces and social, economic, and informational flows.
The Spaces & Flows Conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field, as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines.
• 2010 - University of California, Los Angeles, USA • 2011 - Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy • 2012 - Wayne State University, Detroit, USA • 2013 - Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands • 2015 – University Center, Chicago USA
Plenary Speaker Highlights The Spaces & Flows Conference has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including:
• Michael Dear, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2010) • Jerry Herron, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA (2012) • Roger Keil, York University, Toronto, Canada (2012) • Julie MacLeavy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (2011) • Gordon MacLeod, Durham University, Durham, UK (2013) • Jan Nijman, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013) • Rachel Pain, Durham University, Durham, UK (2013) • Edward Soja, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2010) • Kevin Ward, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (2011) • David Wilson, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA (2011)
Past Partners Over the years, the Spaces & Flows Conference has had the pleasure of working with the following organization:
University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013) Spaces & Flows About the Conference
Conference Principles and Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:
International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Spaces & Flows Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 24 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.
Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.
Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.
Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities. Spaces & Flows Ways of Speaking
Plenary Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Conversation.
Garden Conversation Garden Conversations are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.
Talking Circles Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. When possible, a second Talking Circle is held on the final day of the conference, for the original group to reconvene and discuss changes in their perspectives and understandings as a result of the conference experience. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.
Themed Paper Presentations Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty- minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter’s formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.
Colloquium Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by commentary and/or group discussion. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session. Spaces & Flows Ways of Speaking
Focused Discussion For work that is best discussed or debated, rather than reported on through a formal presentation, these sessions provide a forum for an extended “roundtable” conversation between an author and a small group of interested colleagues. Several such discussions occur simultaneously in a specified area, with each author’s table designated by a number corresponding to the title and topic listed in the program schedule. Summaries of the author’s key ideas, or points of discussion, are used to stimulate and guide the discourse. A single article, based on the scholarly work and informed by the focused discussion as appropriate, may be submitted to the journal.
Workshop/Interactive Session Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate—all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.
Poster Sessions Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session. Spaces & Flows Daily Schedule
Thursday, 15 October
8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:15 Conference Opening—Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Director, Common Ground Publishing, USA Introductory Comments—David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana- 9:15–9:45 Champaign, USA Plenary Session—Byron Miller, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 9:45–10:15 Sustainability for Whom? Sustainability How? 10:15–10:45 Garden Conversation Featuring Byron Miller and Coffee Break 10:45–11:30 Talking Circles 11:30–12:25 Lunch 12:25–13:40 Parallel Sessions 13:40–13:55 Break 13:55–15:10 Parallel Sessions 15:10–15:25 Coffee Break 15:25–17:05 Parallel Sessions 17:15–18:15 Welcome Reception & Book Launch
Friday, 16 October
8:30 Conference Registration Desk Open 9:00–9:10 Daily Update Plenary Session—Teresa Córdova, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA 9:10–9:40 Youth Employment and Neighborhood Development: Thoughts on Reversing Employment Inequalities and Neighborhood Decline 9:40–10:10 Garden Conversation Featuring Teresa Córdova and Coffee Break 10:10–11:50 Parallel Sessions
11:50–12:50 Lunch 12:50–14:30 Parallel Sessions 14:30–14:45 Coffee Break 14:45–16:25 Parallel Sessions Special Event: Closing and Awards Ceremony—Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Director, Common Ground 16:30–17:00 Publishing, USA Spaces & Flows Special Events
Welcome Reception & Book Launch Thursday, 15 October, 17:15-18:15 On Thursday, 15 October the Spaces & Flows Conference and Common Ground Publishing will be holding a welcome reception at the conference venue after the last session of the day. During the reception we will launch our newest title from the Spaces & Flows Book Imprint—The Politics of the Urban Sustainability Concept, edited and presented by Professor David Wilson. Join delegates and plenaries for drinks, light hors d’oeuvres, and a chance to converse!
Loop Interior Architecture Walking Tour Wednesday, 14 October, 16:00-18:00 On Wednesday, 14 October, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, step inside magnificent lobbies, secret corridors, and the underground Pedway system for a personal and cultural experience of architecture and forgotten stories of Chicago history. The Loop Interior Architecture Walking Tour for private groups takes you indoors to see the human stories behind buildings. Tour guests get to share iPads with archival images like maps, historic photos, and documentary video clips while the tour guide shares stories of Chicago history. Guests on this very special architecture walking tour receive the gift of a printed Pedway System map, a Chicago Detours design.
Open House Chicago Saturday, 17 October-Sunday, 18 October Staying after the conference to sightsee in Chicago? Then check out Open House Chicago on 17-18 October! The Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago (OHC) is a free annual festival that offers behind-the-scenes access to over 150 of Chicago’s greatest places and spaces. This October, explore the hidden gems and architectural treasures of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods—all for free. OHC is part of the Open House Worldwide network of events now spanning 23 cities on four continents. CAF inspires people to discover why design matters. Open House Chicago (OHC) gives you access to buildings that tell the stories of Chicago communities and cultures. By venturing into diverse neighborhoods for self-guided exploration, OHC participants come together to discover community and place. OHC is completely free-of-charge—no registration or tickets are needed. So gather your friends, plan your itinerary, and mark your calendar! Spaces & Flows Plenary Speakers
Teresa Córdova Youth Employment and Neighborhood Development: Thoughts on Reversing Employment Inequalities and Neighborhood Decline Teresa Córdova is the Director of UIC’s Great Cities Institute. She is also Professor of Urban Planning and Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) and affiliate of the Departments of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies. Professor Córdova received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. As an applied theorist, political economist, and community-based planner, Professor Córdova approaches her work as a scholarship of engagement in which research, pedagogy, and service are integrated. Her analysis of global/local dynamics, including impacts of globalization on Latino communities, informs her publications in Community Development and Latino Studies. Throughout her career, Teresa has engaged with communities outside the university and is an expert in community/university partnerships. She publishes in the fields of Community Development and Latino Studies. Before returning to Chicago, where she taught in the late 1980s, she was Chair and Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico (UNM). During her twenty-one years at UNM, she was founder and former Director of the Resource Center for Raza Planning in the College of Architecture and Planning at UNM. While director, the Center engaged students in research, policy writing and analysis, public participation, design, strategic and sector planning, and curriculum related to issues of economic development, infrastructure (water, sewer, drainage and road improvement), land use, neighborhood stabilization, agricultural preservation, and youth development. Professor Córdova is currently President of the Board of Directors of The Praxis Project, a national, non-profit organization that provides research, technical assistance, and financial support to tackle issues impacting the well being of communities. She also sits on the Board of Directors of CANTV, Chicago’s public access television. Dr. Córdova is a featured speaker at conferences, symposia, and community events nationally and internationally.
Byron Miller Sustainability for Whom? Sustainability How? Byron Miller’s recent work focuses on the spatial constitution of social movements, urban governance and governmentality, and the politics of urban sustainability. He worked as an urban planner for the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, in the early 1980s, spent three years living and studying in Freiburg, Germany, in the late 1980s, and taught at the University of Cincinnati (1993-2000), before taking his current position at the University of Calgary where he coordinates the Urban Studies Program. He teaches courses on urbanization and urban planning, urban social geography, urban politics and governance, globalization, and field courses on urban sustainability in Europe. He is the author of Geography and Social Movements (2000) on the University of Minnesota Press, and co-editor (with Walter Nicholls and Justin Beaumont) of Spaces of Contention: Spatialities of Social Movements (2013) on Ashgate. He recently co-edited a special issue of Urban Geography on “The City as a Space of Politicization” in which he co-authored, with Walter Nicholls, “Social Movements in Urban Society: the City as a Space of Politicization.” He is also co-author of two chapters in the forthcoming book, The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta: First World Petro-Politic. Spaces & Flows Graduate Scholar Awardees
Sneha Annavarapu Sneha Annavarapu is a first year graduate student at the Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. She holds an integrated MA in Development Studies from IIT Madras. Her interests are in the areas of gender studies, sociology of space, and culture. She has published articles in Journal of Developing Societies, Economic and Political Weekly of India, etc. and has presented at conferences in India and the USA. Sneha is currently working on the issue of public displays of affection and the gender politics behind it in India.
Bridget Fisher Bridget Fisher is a Senior Associate at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), a heterodox economic think tank located within The New School’s Economics Department. Her research investigates the intersection of global capital and urban development and the framing used to gain public and political support for financing private megaprojects. Her current work focuses on the governance outcomes 10 years after implementation of the country’s largest value capture financing project, New York City’s Hudson Yards project. Fisher came to academia from government. In New York, she served as chief of staff for a member of the New York City Council and director of communications for the Working Families Party. On Capitol Hill, she served as press secretary and legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. Congress. Bridget graduated from American University in Washington, DC with a bachelor’s degree in public communication and women’s studies. She received her master’s degree in public administration with a focus on urban economic development from Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY).
Hyesun Jeong Hyesun Jeong is a PhD in Architecture candidate at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. Originally from Korea, she has been living in Chicago since 2006 and obtained her BA Arch and MS Arch degrees at IIT, following a tradition of Mies’ philosophy of comprehensive building design and urban discourse. She has also worked abroad in various cities including her hometown Seoul, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, and currently Chicago, giving her a multi-cultural background. Her current research is focused on comparative study of the relationship between urban density with cultural traits and walking, bicycling, and use of public transit in Chicago, Seoul, and Paris.
Matthew Law Matthew is currently a doctoral student at the University of Victoria in the Department of Political Science. His doctoral research explores the process of constituting, designating, and reproducing political space through acts of systemic exclusion, violence, and discourse which establish the limits of where, when, and how politics is practiced. Matthew’s other research interests include democratic theory, constitutionalism, theories of citizenship, discourse and ideology, and the history of political thought. He currently holds a BA (Honours) in Political Science from Simon Fraser University and an MA in Political Science from the University of Victoria. Matthew currently resides and works from Vancouver, British Columbia. Spaces & Flows Graduate Scholar Awardees
Christina Papadopoulos Christina has been practicing as a consultant planner in Sydney, Australia since 2008. She graduated from the University of New South Wales Australia with a Bachelor of Planning in 2010 and is currently undertaking a Masters by Research in the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism, UNSW. Her research focus is on land use conflicts within the modern city, concentrating on the commercial sex industry. She has presented peer- reviewed publications based on her research. Christina’s professional experience also extends to local land use planning, infrastructure delivery, and the telecommunications sector. She has held numerous positions, including working as a lead planner for Australia’s largest government telecommunications project, The National Broadband Network. Her specialist skills include stakeholder engagement, community consultation and facilitation, and development assessment. She is an accredited planner with The Australian Institute of Planning and a guest lecturer at UNSW.
Jennifer Ross Jennifer Ross received dual bachelor degrees in Honors English and History, as well as her Masters in English, at the University of Michigan. She is currently a second-year PhD student in the American Studies Program at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Jennifer’s research interests include the structure and function of state power, neoliberalism, disaster literature, and American empire. Her upcoming dissertation will investigate how contemporary literature of disaster, including the fiction of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and de-industrialized Detroit, engages with capitalism, oil, and empire and uses narrative form to convey political and social critique in response to various types of catastrophe.
Iulia Statica Iulia Statica is a PhD candidate in Architecture at La Sapienza University of Rome. Between 2014-15 she was a Visiting Research Student at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She was a Rome scholar, having been awarded the Fellowship in Architecture 2012-14 at the Romanian Academy in Rome. She holds a MA in Arts (Hons.) from the National University of Arts, Bucharest, and a BA (Hons.) from Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest. She is currently working as co-editor on the book Metamorphoses of the Contemporary City: Critical Perspectives on Urban Ideologies, a joint publication between La Sapienza University of Rome and Cambridge University. Her research interests focus on the discourses of memory in (post)communist spaces, and the role of ideologies and their critique in architecture and urbanism. THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER
THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER 8:00-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:15 CONFERENCE OPENING – PHILLIP KALANTZIS-COPE, DIRECTOR, COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING, USA 9:15-9:45 INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS – DAVID WILSON, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, USA LENARY ESSION YRON ILLER RBAN TUDIES NIVERSITY OF ALGARY ALGARY ANADA USTAINABILITY FOR HOM 9:45-10:15 P S – B M , U S , U C , C , C - “S W ? SUSTAINABILITY HOW?” 10:15-10:45 GARDEN CONVERSATION FEATURING BYRON MILLER AND COFFEE BREAK 10:45-11:30 TALKING CIRCLE Rm 1 Talking Circle: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Rm 2 Talking Circle: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 3 Talking Circle: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Rm 4 Talking Circle: Special Focus - Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities 11:30-12:25 LUNCH 12:25-13:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 1 Public Space, Urban Development, and Commodification Conceptualizing Commodified Public Space: The Neoliberal Aftermath of Stadium Construction in the Rust Belt Timothy Jurkovac, Natural and Social Sciences, Bowling Green State University Firelands, Huron, USA Michael Kimaid, Natural and Social Sciences, Bowling Green State University Firelands, Huron, USA Overview: This paper explores the neoliberal aftermath of publically subsidized stadium construction in the Midwest and the resulting commodification of the sport experience. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Entrepreneurial Strategies of Urban Development and the Entertainment Industry: Construction of a New Soccer Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia Olga Chepurnaya, Department of Liberal Arts and Science, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation Overview: A new stadium project began in 2004 and is near completion. In over ten years, the project has undergone significant changes, but has affected the development strategies of the area. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Pseudo Public Spaces of Istanbul: Transformation of Use Value into Exchange Value Ladin Bayurgil, Sociology Department, Boston University, Boston, USA Overview: In pseudo public spaces of Istanbul, through imitation of the imagery of idealized neighborhoods, use value of the neighborhood is transferred into exchange value. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Rm 2 Nature and the City: Restorative Environments and Inclusive Design Transitional Cultured-nature: Restorative Environments in Urban Settings Alia Fadel, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Overview: This paper discusses the potentials of transitional cultured-nature to function as a restorative environment that can alleviate the negative consequences of stressful living conditions in urban settings. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Reducing Carbon Dioxide Accumulation in Closed Systems by Creating Human-plant Super Constructs Bharathi Sria Pattaswamy, College of Architecture and Planning, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India Srinivas Bandarupally, Esquire Engineering Solutions Ltd., Chennai, India Overview: This paper discusses integrating human-plant systems as a commercially viable way of reducing CO2 levels, allowing the manipulation of temperature, aesthetics, and emotions. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects The Role of Existing Natural Structures of a City in the Relationship between Humans and Nature in an Urban Context: A Case Study of the Seven River Valleys of Tehran and Its Tehranian Residents Sanaz Shobeiri, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Wetminster, London, UK Overview: This paper discusses the relationship between humans and nature in an urban context by benefiting the existing natural structures of the city. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER 12:25-13:40 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 3 Pedestrian Movement and Mobility Walking the City: No More Motorways for Belfast Dr. Agustina Martire, School of Planning Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK Overview: This paper explores the way motorways have threatened the urban landscape of Belfast by eliminating the connections between the city center and its periphery. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows The Impact of Socio-urban and Cultural Context on Walking, Bicycling, and Transit Use in Chicago, Seoul, and Paris Hyesun Jeong, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Overview: This empirical research studies the impact of socio-urban and cultural context on walking, bicycling, and transit use in Chicago, Seoul, and Paris as a comparative analysis. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Using a Participatory Mapping Method to Promote Cycling on Samui Island, South of Thailand Dr. Supaporn K. Leopairojna, Department of Building Innovation, Faculty of Architecture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Dr. Bart Lambregts, Department of Building Innovation, Faculty of Architecture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Assoc. Prof. Chaweewan Denpaiboon, Division of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand Overview: This study employes a participatory mapping method encouraging community participation in promoting cycling on Samui Island, a famous tourist destination and a low carbon model town in Thailand. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 4 The Politics of Space Urban Phantasms: Ruination of Industrial Spaces in Post-communist Topographies Iulia Statica, Department of Architecture and Project, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Overview: This paper critically investigates the metamorphoses of urban industrial spaces in the passage from communism to capitalism by employing the concept of dialectical seeing as a methodology. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Groundlessness and Multiplicity in Democratic Politics Matthew Law, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Overview: This paper explores the implications of the experience of social groundlessness and the absence of archic foundations on democratic politics and its possibilities. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows The “Rising Star” in the Declining City Zone and the “Enhanced Model” in the Rising City Zone: A Comparison between Shenzhen and Yanbian’s City Branding Mengyan Yu, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Overview: Transitioning post-communist China is explored by examining Shenzhen and Yanbian, exploring how global capital flow and local geo-politics shape city branding policies and relevant governance. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities
13:40-13:55 TRANSITION BREAK 13:55-15:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 1 Appropriation and Economic Development Tactical Displacements: Makers, Places, and the Aesthetics of Soft Colonies David White, Woodbury University, San Diego, USA Overview: This paper examines how “tactical” approaches to urban revitalization, derived from critical aesthetic and spatial traditions of underrepresented communities in the urban core, are appropriated by large-scale development interests. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces The Myth of Self-financing: The rade-ofT fs behind New York City's Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project Bridget Fisher, Economics Department, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School, New York, USA Overview: Given the debate on the efficacy of tax increment financing (TIF), this paper analyzes the country’s largest TIF project as a case study on the financing mechanism’s promises and fallacies. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Appropriating the Past: Urban Exploration and Loft Living in Deindustrialized Detroit Jennifer Ross, American Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA Overview: This paper explores how ruins photography and downtown luxury lofts commodify industrial memory, stripping away community identities, livelihoods, and cultural expressions by disjointing history and aestheticizing destruction. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER 13:55-15:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 2 Chaos and Creativity in Global Space The Role of Participation in Polyphonic Spaces: Kuzguncuk and Yedikule Orchards Burcin Fatma Tunc, Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Overview: This study formulates an approach to participation that moves beyond the token involvement of users towards a more transformative model. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Visual Ideology and Social Imaginary: A New Approach to the Aesthetics of Globalization Dr. Tommaso Durante, School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This study explores globalization as a material and ideational process through a practice-led research into socio-spatial change through condensation symbols classified as ideological markers of globality. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows The Social Topology of Moscow’s “Hipster Urbanism”: From Metropolis to Heteropolis Prof. Victor Vakhshtayn, Center for Sociological Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation Pavel Stepantsov, Center for Sociological Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation Overview: This paper focuses on recent trends in Moscow's urban developement. Using a conceptual framework of actor-network theory and social topology we analyze the ongoing process of "Moscow's reassembling." Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 3 Digital Interfaces and Urban Spaces Urban Gaming: How Cites Expand, Stagnate, and Shrink in Realtime Maria Del C. Vera, School of Architecture, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA Susanna Newbury, Department of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA Overview: This study parallels urban logics and gaming practices to define how cities shrink, stagnate, and expand. It uses egas,V SimCity, and SecondLife as the apogees that define emerging urban plans. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Digital Interfaces in Situations of Mobility: Cognitive Artistic, Game, and Fictional Devices Bernard Guelton, UFR Arts and Sciences de l'Art, Sorbonne Université Paris 1, Paris, France Overview: This project focuses on digital interfaces in situations of mobility, in fictional game devices on an urban scale. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Over, Under, and Through: The Topology of a Semi-wired Network Thomas Forget, School of Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Overview: This paper theorizes strategies of place-making in the New York City Subway and argues for the civic potential of its intermittent connectivity to global information networks. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 4 Placemaking: People-centered Planning and Design Evaluating the Success and the Liveliness of a Public Open Space: A Case Study of Imam Hossein Square Taraneh Darvish, Interior Architecture, Herberger School of Design and the Arts, Ariznona State University, Fountain Hills, USA Overview: Imam Hossein Square is a plaza, public open space. It is a pedestrian only square which is located in Tehran, Iran. It's livability, identity, and use is of great concern. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects The Utilization of Historic Public Space for Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study of the Floating Market in Thailand Assoc. Prof. Chaweewan Denpaiboon, Division of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: This study examines the utilization of an historic city for sustainability tourism in Thailand. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Rm 5 Urban Transformation: Social Impacts Urban Identity Transformation: The Case of the Mid-Anatolian City, Eskisehir Ozlem Kandemir, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey Overview: Cities are changing with urban transformations, regulations, and economic-sociological processes, resulting in processes that define and transform urban identity. This paper investigates urban identity of Eskisehir, Turkey via these dynamics. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Regenerating Urban Space in Riyadh’s Neighborhoods Dr. Anas Almughairy, College of Architecture and Planning, Department of Urban Planning, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Overview: This research examines the quality of urban space regeneration in Riyadh's neighbourhoods. It asks residents about their views on theses new urban spaces and how they enhanced their social relationships. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects
15:10-15:25 COFFEE BREAK THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER 15:25-17:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 1 Decline Belt Cities and Places: Sociological Studies Controlled Ruins: A New Critical Practice? Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Research Department, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark Overview: This research seeks to establish a new critical practice based on a series of transformations of abandoned buildings. The aim is to develop and test full-scale prototypes in rural environments. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities The Reproduction and Organization of Urban Space in Turkey after 2000 Yeliz Polat, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey Mehhmet Akif Cukurcayır, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey Overview: Urban space in Turkey after 2000 has been used as one of the most important instruments on the way to national development. Urban spaces have undergone an intensive transformation. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Manufacturing Gowanus: Re-envisioning Industrial Sites as Productive Urban Landscapes Ting Chin, Department of Architectural Technology, New York City College of Technology, New York, USA Overview: This project traces the Gowanus Canal as an industrial district that left behind an EPA Superfund site and proposes a revival of manufacturing that develops solutions for its remediation. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities History of a Regime Shift: Two Centuries of American Moral Design Dr. M. Gordon Brown, Space Analytics, IIT College of Architecture, Wauconda, USA Overview: Two centuries of change in American metropolitan urban form show path dependence leading to a regime shift from exponential to scale-free network structures resulting in secular stagnation. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities Rm 2 Urban Sociology Everything's Up to Date: Chronicling Modernity through High-rise Apartment Buildings Lance Russell Owen, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA Overview: This paper offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of urban modernity through an analysis of high-rise apartment buildings, focusing on their incorporation of suburban/edge-urban spatial and aesthetic characteristics. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces The Paradox of Urban Mobility and the Spatialization of Technological Utopia Chamee Yang, Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA Overview: Based on a case study in South Korea, this paper examines discourses, practices, and technologies deployed in the making of a globally aspired, technological utopia in the city. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 3 Re-contextualizing Citizen Experience and Development Strategies Art and Boom: Learning from San Francisco? Astrid Kaemmerling, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, San Francisco, USA Overview: This paper addresses the problems and possibilities of San Francisco’s redevelopment strategies via the arts as thematized by contemporary walking art practices (2000-2015) in the Mission District. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Light and the Manifestation of Performance Place: The Experience of Spaces and Places through a Different Light Euan Winton, School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK Overview: This paper develops an understanding of non-physical place making and the power of light in creating social public events, through "Night in the Garden" at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2014. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects The Art of Jaywalking: A Contemporary Approach to Interaction, Ownership, and Creation in Public Space Natalia Dmuchowska, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Toronto, Canada Barry Wylant, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Overview: This paper explores different means of increasing interaction in public space, through the investigation of the psychological and cultural impacts of built urban form. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Arts-based Charter Schools as Urban Redevelopment Catalysts: Santa Ana, California’s Orange County School of the Arts Dr. Bartley Danielsen, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA Overview: This study examines how the Santa Ana School of the Arts has impacted the downtown area of Santa Ana and attracted middle-income families to a relatively poor, overwhelmingly minority area. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities Rm 4 Workshops Responding on Site: Exploring Embodied Reactions to Sites and Spaces Dr. Tara Munjee, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Overview: Basic movement and somatic techniques will be introduced for the purposes of generating affective responses to sites and to spark discussion on subjective and multiple understandings of spaces. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows
17:15-18:15 CONFERENCE RECEPTION & BOOK LAUNCH FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER
FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER 8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:10 DAILY UPDATE PLENARY SESSION – TERESA CÓRDOVA, GREAT CITIES INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO, CHICAGO, USA - "YOUTH 9:10-9:40 EMPLOYMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: THOUGHTS ON REVERSING EMPLOYMENT INEQUALITIES AND NEIGHBORHOOD DECLINE" 9:40-10:10 GARDEN CONVERSATION FEATURING TERESA CÓRDOVA AND COFFEE BREAK 10:10-11:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 1 Critical Spatial Practices and Studies Extraurban Spaces within the City: The Sex Industry (Home Occupation) as a Legal Industry within Metropolitan Sydney Christina Papadopoulos, Faculty of the Built Environment, Graduate Research School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Overview: This study of the extraurban within metropolitan Sydney discusses the sex industry as a legitimate industry within the context of a home occupation and examines the resistances, regulations, and influences. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces The Urban Function of the Infraordinary: Dry Cleaners as Social Vertexes Espen Lunde Nielsen, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark Overview: This project explores the infraordinary London dry cleaners as social vertexes that perform vital functions as components of the social dimension of the city, separate form their practical use. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Hip-hop to Le Hip-hop: Re-mixing and Re-articulating African American Urban Culture in France Kevin Kosanovich, Department of History and American Studies, University of Mary Washington, Richmond, USA Overview: This paper examines the relationships between urban places and spaces in New York and Paris in the early 1980s that helped hip-hop emerge as a global cultural force. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 2 Technology, Space, and Social Design A Matter of Scale or Social Content? Infilling oidsV for Social Action Milagros Zingoni, Interior Design, Arizona State University, Mesa, USA Overview: This paper discusses adapting typologies that interweave social content with spatial conditions to propose settings that are consistent with opportunities associated with technology and the complexities associated with growth. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Seeing, Believing, and Feeling: The Relationship between Sense of Place and Geovisualization Research Robert Newell, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Dr. Rosaline Canessa, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Overview: This work illustrates the relationship between sense of place and applications of geovisualizations in collaborative environmental management efforts for the purposes of promoting integration between the two areas of research. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects When Technology Collides with Culture: The Arrival of Mobility Artifacts to Non-metropolitan Cities Tomas Errazuriz, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Catholic University of Maule, Talca, Chile Overview: What happens when civilizing promises arrive at an intermediate city with an agricultural base? This paper examines the introduction and reception of mobility artifacts and devices in a non-metropolitan city. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Harnessing Information and Material Flows through Digital Design and Fabrication to Upcycle Reclaimed Timber Ayodh Vasant Kamath, College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, USA Overview: A design process using digital tools is proposed for the upcycling of reclaimed building materials in Rust Belt cities and is implemented to construct a prototype structure for community infrastructure. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Rm 3 Consumer Cities, Spaces, and Narratives Spaces and Flows in the Consumer City: Advertisers and Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century Daniel Story, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Overview: In the early twentieth century, outdoor advertisers utilized Chicago as a case study in which to forge their consumer-focused vision of city space and patterns of movement. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows What Is Old about the "Neoliberal" City and Its Media? Prof. James Hay, Institute of Communications Research, College of Media, University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA Overview: This paper examines how "residual" media have mattered and rematerialized in the ("neoliberal") governmentalization of urban space and urban life in the United States. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows The Boundaries of Wellness: Symbolic Power of Space at Isha Life, Chennai Sneha Annavarapu, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA Overview: This paper uses ethnographic methods to understand how the space inside a space of consumption (wellness center) contributes to symbolic boundary-making processes that discursively and symbolically produces an "urbanity." Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER 10:10-11:50 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 4 Urban Revitalization, Development, and Stratification Tales from the Intersection of Creative Class Theory, Place Branding, and Urban Revitalization in the Post-industrial Cities of Detroit and Newcastle Laura Crommelin, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Overview: This paper explores the intersections of creative class theory, place branding, and urban revitalization practices in two post-industrial cities, Detroit and Newcastle, through interviews with unofficial evitalizationr participants. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities The Relationship between Decision-making Mechanisms and Urban Regeneration Projects: A Review of the Istanbul Case Erdem Eryazicioglu, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Ilkim Markoc, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Overview: This paper analyzes new urban coalitions, the "de jure" and "de facto," alterations of the roles of urban actors depending on the neoliberal economic policies and urban regeneration. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces A “Walled” Academic Urban Fortress: Design and Maintenance of Chicago’s Hyde Park Neighborhood Dr. Mohammad A. Chaichian, Department of International Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, USA Overview: This paper discusses the historical metamorphosis of Hyde Park, home of the University of Chicago, which has evolved from a railroad suburb into a fortress-like academic-corporate neighborhood. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Sustainable Campus Town Development in the Suburban Area of Bangkok, Thailand Pawinee Iamtrakul, Department of Urban Environmental Planning and Development, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Klongluang, Thailand Overview: The university must plan to meet the goal of urban development while sustaining the quality of life and coping with the rapid growth of a mega city. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces
11:50-12:50 LUNCH 12:50-14:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 1 Transportation Flows and Planning Contesting the “Dynapolis”: Informal Communities in Islamabad Dr. Thomas Daniell, Faculty of Creative Industries, University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China Overview: Designed by Constantinos Doxiadis, Islamabad is a linear city subdivided into an alphanumeric grid, but its intended clarity of function and flow is being subverted by unanticipated phenomena. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows New Strategies for Re-configuration of Railway Landscapes' Surrounding Space Giancarlo Carmelino, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Momoyo Kaijima, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Toshihiro Hanazato, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Overview: This paper analyzes and proposes spatial re-configuration strategies for the surroundings of railway stations in the case of Lima city in order to invert the urban barrier condition. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Lack of Urban Planning Equals a Lack of Spatial and Flow Supervision: The Case of Guatemala City Sebastien Hardy, PRODIG Laboratory, Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, France Overview: With the earthquake and civil war, the population of Guatemala has increased, extending into neighboring municipalities. The absence of an entity in charge of planning creates dysfunction, especially for transportation. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows Solidarity, Environments, and Boundaries: Can We Assemble a City from Divergent Places? Pavel Stepantsov, Center for Sociological Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation Overview: This paper addresses the problem of solidarity in contemporary urban environments. We demonstrate that both "rural" and "urban" forms of solidarity are constitutive for creating the metropolis. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER 12:50-14:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 2 Space, Place, and Subjectivity Walking as Sensory Ethnography: A History of Critical Urban Walking from Dérive to Place Hacking Samuel Stockley, Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts, and Communications, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Overview: Myriad urban walking practices are brought together on a single continuum, connecting the phenomenological to the habitual. This paper explores the merits of urban walking beyond a mode of transport. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects A Critique of Networked Individualism: Haptic Space and the Subject of Flow Dr. Harris Mark Breslow, Department of Mass Communication, The American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Overview: I critique Wellman's "Networked Individualism," arguing instead that subjectivity must be seen in terms of haptic space and understood in terms of multiplicity. Theme: Material and Immaterial Flows People and Urban Spaces: Between Urban Sociology and Environmental Psychology Luca Bottini, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Overview: This paper explores the relationship between the urban spaces and social phenomena. In a "global village," places seem to lose their meanings. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Rm 3 Green Spaces and Urban Environmental Planning A Thick Green Line: Extracting a New Public Realm within Existing Hyper Density Assoc. Prof. Cheryl Anne Atkinson, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Overview: This paper demonstrates a design strategy for creating a new linear park system as connective public realm, by re-purposing existing underutilized transportation infrastructure in the densely reoccupied core of Toronto. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Chicago's West Parks and the Panoramic Uncanny Molly Briggs, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA Overview: Chicago’s large, late-nineteenth-century west side parks and boulevards express the “panoramic uncanny,” a simultaneously painterly, spatialized, and embodied way of seeing and understanding place, motion, distance, and representation. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Rm 4 The Economics of Space Federal Financial Institutions, Foreclosure, and the Fortunes of Detroit's Middle- and Working-class Neighborhoods Eric Seymour, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan, Ypsilanti, USA Overview: This paper examines how private lending and federal housing finance institutions have handled their inventory of mortgage-reverted properties and the impacts of these practices on neighborhoods in distressed cities. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities Impact of Open Space Distribution on the Property Value in Neighborhood Subdivision and Design Md Saiful Islam, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Dr. Bouferguene Ahmed, University of Alberta, Campus Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Canada Dr. Mohamed Al-Hussein, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Overview: Municipal reserve open space distribution optimization in subdivision design of a neighborhood can improve the quality of life as well as generate extra municipal revenue by lifting the property value. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces
14:30-14:45 COFFEE BREAK 14:45-16:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 1 Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities The Complex Social Challenges of Designing Regional Economies: A Critical Analysis of the Co-design Urban Renewal Experiment in "Australia’s Detroit" Mark Dean, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Gender Studies and Social Analysis, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Overview: This paper discusses findings of a critical case-study analysis of co-design approaches to urban rejuvenation in Playford, "Australia's Detroit," and implications for urban policymaking. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Towards a New Planning Vocabulary: Developing a Catalog of Non-conventional Approaches to Steering and Planning Shrinking Territories Dr. Andreas Luescher, Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA Dr. Lea Holst Laursen, Department of Architecture, Design, and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Overview: This paper explores the re-thinking of the planning and design of shrinking territories by characterizing the behaviors and characteristics of different projects conducted in cities suffering from decline. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities Controlling the Urban Renewal Narrative: Race, Legibility, and Contemporary Urban Development Christopher Mele, Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA Overview: This paper offers an analysis of "legibility," defined as the hegemonic alignment of structural inner city poverty conditions with the neoliberal redevelopment of older, industrial cities in the United States. Theme: Decline Belt Cities and Places: Prospects, Problems, Possibilities FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER 14:45-16:25 PARALLEL SESSIONS Rm 2 Dynamics of Urban Planning Utopian Intentions and Neoliberal Realities: Learning Lessons from New Towns in a Post-industrial Consumer Age Prof. Steven Miles, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Overview: This paper considers the lessons to be learned from the UK's post-war New Towns that were built upon socialistic principles but then emerged in the reality of a consumer age. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Is There Anything between the High-density City and the Low-density Model? Silvina Lopez Barrera, Architectural Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, USA Overview: This study explores smart growth planning theory and high-density city models as an attempt to solve the sprawl urban issues. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Indigenizing the City: Embodying Aboriginal Knowledge and Wisdom into Planning Frameworks to Create Sustainable Cities of the Future Dr. Ann Hardy, Cultural Collection Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia Gionni Di Gravio, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia Bill Robertson, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia Overview: This paper refers to the port city of Newcastle, Australia and examines how cultural understandings can be indigenized and, thus, be incorporated into the urban planning system. Theme: Urban and Extraurban Spaces Rm 3 Place and Identity: Interior and Housing Design Investigating Affordances within Semi-fixed Elements in Contemporary Housing Design Mohsen Garshasby Moakhar, The Design School, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Overview: This paper examines the role of semi-fixed elements in contemporary housing design and the impact of affordances on compatibility between households' needs and dwelling spatial setting. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects Exploring an Insurgence in Traditional Interior Redesign among the Older Generation Dr. Abeer Alawad, Faculty of Home Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Overview: This study investigates the notion of identity reflected in interior design choices. The esearr ch explores the reasons retired citizens provide for redesigning their homes in a traditional manner. Theme: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects
16:30-17:00 SPECIAL EVENT: CLOSING AND AWARDS CEREMONY–PHILLIP KALANTZIS-COPE, DIRECTOR, COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING, USA Spaces & Flows List of Participants
Amokrane Abderrezak Setif 2 University Algeria Eshna Agarwal Welkin India Limited India Bouferguene Ahmed University of Alberta Canada Abeer Alawad King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia Anas Almughairy King Saud University Saudi Arabia Sneha Annavarapu Indian Institute of Technology Madras India Alize Arican University of Illinois at Chicago USA Cheryl Anne Atkinson Ryerson University Canada Ladin Bayurgil Boston University USA Luca Bottini Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Italy Harris Mark Breslow The American University of Sharjah United Arab Emirates Molly Briggs University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA M. Gordon Brown Illinois Institute of Technology USA Giancarlo Carmelino University of Tsukuba Japan Everett Felix Cataldo Cleveland State University USA Mohammad A. Chaichian Mount Mercy University USA Olga Chepurnaya St. Petersburg State University Russian Federation Ting Chin New York City College of Technology USA Aaron Clark Common Ground Publishing USA Laura Crommelin University of New South Wales Australia Teresa Córdova University of Illinois at Chicago USA Thomas Daniell University of Saint Joseph China Bartley Danielsen North Carolina State University USA Taraneh Darvish Ariznona State University USA Mark Dean The University of Adelaide Australia Chaweewan Denpaiboon Thammasat University Thailand Anisa Desai University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Gionni Di Gravio University of Newcastle Australia Natalia Dmuchowska University of Calgary Canada Tommaso Durante Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Australia Stephanie Ebersohl Common Ground Publishing USA Tomas Errazuriz Universidad Catolica del Maule Chile Alia Fadel Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) USA Bridget Fisher The New School USA Thomas Forget University of North Carolina USA Mohsen Garshasby Moakhar Arizona State University USA Bernard Guelton Sorbonne Université Paris 1 France Ann Hardy University of Newcastle Australia Sebastien Hardy Institut Recherche Développement France James Hay University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA Christian Hemkendreis TU Dortmund University Germany Christine Hunter Purdue North Central and USA Indiana University of Pennsylvania Spaces & Flows List of Participants
Pawinee Iamtrakul Thammasat University Thailand Leila Jalalabadi Payam-Noor university in Tehran Iran (Islamic Republic of) Hyesun Jeong Illinois Institute of Technology USA Timothy Jurkovac Bowling Green State University - Firelands USA Astrid Kaemmerling Ohio University USA Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Common Ground Publishing USA Ayodh Vasant Kamath Lawrence Technological University USA Ozlem Kandemir Anadolu University Turkey Michael Kimaid Bowling Green State University - Firelands USA Kevin Kosanovich University of Mary Washington USA Mo Michelsen Krag Aarhus School of Architecture Denmark Stochholm Matthew Law University of Victoria Canada Supaporn K. Leopairojna Kasetsart University Thailand Silvina Lopez Barrera Middlebury College USA Andreas Luescher Bowling Green State University USA Espen Lunde Nielsen Aarhus School of Architecture Denmark Erin Madarieta Common Ground Publishing USA Ilkim Markoc Yildiz Technical University Turkey Agustina Martire Queen’s University Belfast UK Calmore McDonald Rainbow Haulage and Construction Limited Jamaica Christopher Mele University at Buffalo USA Steven Miles Manchester Metropolitan University UK Byron Miller University of Calgary Canada Vanessa Mooney University of Queensland Australia Nadia Mounajjed Abu Dhabi University United Arab Emirates Tara Munjee Rutgers University USA Susanna Newbury University of Nevada - Las Vegas USA Robert Newell University of Victoria Canada Felicia I. Olasehinde Kaduna Polytechnic Nigeria Lance Russell Owen University of California - Berkeley USA Christina Papadopoulos University of New South Wales Australia Bharathi Sria Pattaswamy Acharya Nagarjuna University India Yeliz Polat Fırat University Turkey Md Abdur Rahman Nipu Fervent Architects & Engineers Ltd. Bangladesh Matt Robinson Common Ground Publishing USA Jennifer Ross College of William and Mary USA Tomasz Rozwadowski Gdansk Univeristy of Technology Poland Eric Seymour University of Michigan USA Sanaz Shobeiri University of Wetminster UK Eveleen Sidana Delhi School of Economics India Ashley Souk Common Ground Publishing USA Iulia Statica La Sapienza University of Rome Italy Spaces & Flows List of Participants
Samuel Stockley The University of Leeds UK Daniel Story Indiana University USA Hanan Taleb British University in Dubai United Arab Emirates Akhilendra Tiwary Yobe State University Nigeria Prasenjeet Tribhuvan University of Delhi India Burcin Fatma Tunc Istanbul Technical University Turkey Mustafa Tuncan Anadolu University Turkey Victor Vakhshtayn Russian Academy of National Economy and Russian Federation Public Administration Maria Del C. Vera University of Nevada - Las Vegas USA David White Woodbury University USA David Wilson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA Euan Winton Edinburgh Napier University UK Chamee Yang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA Mengyan Yu City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Milagros Zingoni Arizona State University USA Spaces & Flows Notes Spaces & Flows Notes Spaces & Flows Notes Spaces & Flows Notes Spaces & Flows Notes Spaces & Flows Notes | Conference Calendar 2015-2016
Thirteenth International Conference on Sixth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries Religion & Spirituality in Society University of British Columbia at Robson Square The Catholic University of America Vancouver, Canada | 19–20 October 2015 Washington D.C., USA | 22–23 March 2016 www.booksandpublishing.com/the-conference www.religioninsociety.com/2016-conference
Sixth International Conference on Sixth International Conference on the the Image Constructed Environment University of California at Berkeley The University of Arizona Berkeley, USA | 29–30 October 2015 Tucson, USA | 2–4 April 2016 www.ontheimage.com/2015-conference www.constructedenvironment.com/2016-conference
The Eighth International Conference on Sixteenth International Conference on e–Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Knowledge, Culture & Change in University of California, Santa Cruz Organizations Santa Cruz, USA | 2–3 November 2015 University of Hawaii at Manoa www.ubi–learn.com/the-conference Honolulu, USA | 19–20 April 2016 www.organization-studies.com/2016-conference Aging and Society: Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference Eighth International Conference on The Catholic University of America Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Washington D.C., USA | 5–6 November 2015 VNU University of Science (HUS) and www.agingandsociety.com/2015-conference Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) Hanoi, Vietnam | 21-22 April 2016 www.on-climate.com/2016-conference Twelfth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability Inaugural International Conference on Portland State University Tourism & Leisure Studies Portland, USA | 21–23 January 2016 University of Hawaii at Manoa www.onsustainability.com/2016-conference Honolulu, USA | 22-23 April 2016 www.tourismandleisurestudies.com/2016-conference
Twelfth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society Seventh International Conference on Universidad de Buenos Aires Sport & Society Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18–19 February 2016 University of Hawaii at Manoa www.techandsoc.com/2016-conference Honolulu, USA | 2-3 June 2016 www.sportandsociety.com/2016-conference
Tenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC–Rio) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25–27 February 2016 www.designprinciplesandpractices.com/2016-conference | Conference Calendar 2015-2016
Fourteenth International Conference Inaugural Communication & Media on New Directions in the Humanities Studies Conference University of Illinois at Chicago University Center Chicago Chicago, USA | 8-10 June 2016 Chicago, USA | 15-16 September, 2016 www.thehumanities.com/2016-conference www.oncommunicationmedia.com/2016-conference
Ninth Global Studies Conference Ninth International Conference on the University of California, Los Angeles Inclusive Museum Los Angeles, USA | 30 June-1 July 2016 National Underground Railroad Freedom Center www.onglobalization.com/2016-conference Cincinnati, USA | 16-19 September 2016 www.onmuseums.com/2016-conference Twenty-third International Conference on Learning Aging & Society: Sixth Interdisciplinary University of British Columbia Conference Vancouver, Canada | 13-15 July 2016 Linköping University www.thelearner.com/2016-conference Linköping, Sweden | 6-7 October 2016 www.agingandsociety.com/2016-conference Sixteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Sixth International Conference on Communities & Nations Food Studies The University of Granada University of California at Berkeley Granada, Spain | 27-29 July 2016 Berkeley, USA | 12-13 October 2016 www.ondiversity.com/2016-conference www.food-studies.com/2016-conference
Eleventh International Conference on Sixth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Health, Wellness & Society Imperial College London Catholic University of America London, UK | 2-4 August 2016 Washington D.C., USA | 20-21 October 2016 www.thesocialsciences.com/2016-conference www.healthandsociety.com/2016-conference
Eleventh International Conference on Spaces & Flows: Seventh International the Arts in Society Conference on Urban & ExtraUrban University of California, Los Angeles Studies Los Angeles, USA | 10-12 August 2016 University of Pennsylvania www.artsinsociety.com/2016-conference Philadelphia, USA | 10-11 November 2016 www.spacesandflows.com/2016-conference Sixth International Conference on the Image Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, UK | 1-2 September 2016 www.ontheimage.com/2016-conference Call for Papers Spaces & Flows: Seventh International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies Planetary Urbanization in the Modern World 10-11 NOVEMBER 2016 | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | PHILADELPHIA, USA | SPACESANDFLOWS.COM
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