Eighth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

(SF 2017)

October 12-13,2017

University of Hull, Hull, UK

Call for Papers:

The Spaces & Flows: Seventh International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies embraces the theme of Planetary Urbanization in the Modern World. In recent years, this provocative notion has exploded across the academic terrain in urban studies and the social sciences. Its leading voices proclaim the need to recognize a new reality of unprecedented flows, fluxes, and movements in a relentlessly expanding urbanized world. The globe has become substantially urbanized, as near and far flung places interconnect (all but uninhibited by the frictions of time and space) in a moving and blanketing urbanization. The effects are proclaimed to be evident on the ground: the end of “wilderness,” the disintegration of hinterlands, and the loss of true country terrains. This reality, to these voices, renders the city as analytic object in urban studies antiquated.

Topics of Interest:

Theme 1: Urban and Extraurban Spaces

• Urban modernity: its forms and dynamics
• Property costs and the mortgage crisis
• 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

Theme 2: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects

• Environmental effects: urban, edge-urban, de-urban, micro-urban, greenfield, off-the-grid.
• Human and environmental sustainability
• 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

Theme 3: Material and Immaterial Flows

• Transportation infrastructures and patterns
• Local-global production flows
• 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

Important Dates

Advance Registration Deadline :January 12,2017

Early Registration Deadline : April 12, 2017

Regular Registration Deadline : October 12,2017

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