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Call for papers: Geographical perspectives on New Urbanism
Association of American Geographers
Annual Conference: Los Angeles, March 19-23, 2002
The sessions will bring together scholarship on contemporary reconfigurations of metropolitan landscapes which are either directly aligned with or are otherwise related to New Urbanism. Although frequently associated with locales such as Seaside and Celebration, the oeuvre of New Urbanism also consists of a loosely organized ensemble of regional and town planning initiatives, urban infill projects, and public housing redevelopment efforts. Thus, amidst persistent concerns over suburban sprawl, environmental sustainability, inner-city decline, racial and ethnic segregation, and the concentration of poverty, New Urbanism has begun to gain widespread currency as a potential (if partial) means of addressing these concerns. Meanwhile, charges of utopianism, exclusionary elitism, spatial determinism, and disregard for the roots of urban problems have all been levied against New Urbanism from various quarters.
In the interest of engaging with these issues from multiple perspectives, I invite a wide array of research approaches--ranging from critical-theoretical interrogations to empirically grounded case studies--which address social, political, and economic characteristics and implications of the discourses and practices of New Urbanism. Possible topics might include, but need not be limited to:
issues pertaining to the HOPE VI program, such as inner-city revitalization, affordable housing and homeownership, federal housing policy devolution, socio-spatial dislocation, or racial/ethnic/class segregation
issues pertaining to New Urbanism more generally, such as historical contextualizations of New Urbanism’s design principles, revisitations of paradigmatic New Urbanist projects, or assessments of ideology and praxis
Abstract Deadline: August 1, 2001
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