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Programme
Thursday 30 March
11.00 Registration

11.00 Editorial meeting (Urban History) – Editorial Board members only

1.00-2.00 Lunch (not included in one-day package)

Bob Morris, Chair
Harold Platt, Loyola University of Chicago
URBAN RENEWAL AND THE REVOLT OF THE ECO-POPULISTS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NEIGHBORHOOD MICRO-HISTORIES, 1965-90

Mark Clapson, University of Westminster
URBAN DISPERSAL AND ITS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES:
TOWN PLANNING, SOCIOLOGY AND THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASSES, 1945-80

3.45-4.15 Tea

4.15-6.00 SESSION 2
Simon Gunn, Chair
Rebecca Madgin, University of Leicester
MANAGEMENT OF PLACE: PEOPLE, POLICIES AND POLITICS, CASTLEFIELD 1970-90

Angela Davis, Department of Continuing Education, Oxford University
DESTRUCTION OR RECONSTRUCTION? WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY AND URBAN LIVING IN OXFORD C. 1945-70.

Molly O’Brien Castro, Université Paris 7
ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF INNER CITIES: THE BRITISH CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENTS’ URBAN POLICY, 1979-mid-1990s

6.00-6.30 Business Meeting (ALL INVITED)

6.30-7.00 Reception
(sponsored by Urban History, published by Cambridge University Press)

7.00-8.00 Dinner

8.15 AFTER DINNER LECTURE

Vanessa Harding Birkbeck College, London
PLAGUE AND AFTER: URBAN GOVERNMENT IN DENIAL?
Richard Rodger, Chair

9.15 BAR

Friday 31 March

8.00 Breakfast

9.00-11.00 SESSION 3
Helen Meller, Chair
Utku Balaban, State University of New York at Binghamton
THE GREAT ANACHRONISM: URBAN RENEWAL BY ‘PEASANTS’

Isabelle Mity, Université Lille III
CRONOS DEVOURING ITS CHILDREN: URBAN RENEWAL AND THE DISCOURSE ON DEGENERATION IN GERMANY AT THE TIME OF URBANIZATION

Shafi Noor Islam and Margaret Frackowiak
FLOOD AND RAIN WATER LOGGING IN DHAKA MEGA CITY: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD IN BANGLADESH

Lanre Davies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN LAGOS 1920-1955: REPLANNING OR DISLOCATION?

Luigi Di Sarno University of Naples , Amr Elnashai UIUC, Urbana IL, Marina Carter Edinburgh University
DEALING WITH EARTHQUAKES: URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMMES IN 18TH C EUROPE

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-1.00 SESSION 4

Chair and Discussant: David Green, King’s College London

Miles Glendinning (Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies)
THE CONFUSION OF MULTIPLE REDEVELOPMENT: PALIMPSEST, PLANNING OF THE GORBALS, GLASGOW C.1900-2006

José María Cardesín, A Coruña University and Iñaki Mendizábal, Architect, Ferrol City Council
URBAN REGENERATION AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN THE SPANISH CITY OF FERROL

DISCUSSION

1.00-2.00 Lunch (included in conference package)

2.00 Conference ends