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Call for abstracts (due by April 30, 2007, submission opens January 1, 2007)
International conference
Reston, Virginia, USA
April 6-April 8, 2008
A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis
Hosted by Dr. Robert Lang (Metropolitan Institute), Dr. Paul Knox (Virginia
Tech), and Dr. Edward Blakeley (University of Sydney)
We have entered a new era where the areas outside worldwide core cities are
forming different settlement systems. In Europe, even tight building
controls have not curbed the appetite of households to move out of the
central cities. China and India, with fast-growing middle classes, are
witnessing a startling expansion of their urban areas with rapid
auto-dependent growth on the fringe. Mexico and Indonesia are beginning to
adapt American-style suburban development patterns. As urban form changes,
new research and policy have to be created to address the challenges of
sprawl, congestion, and affordable housing. This conference will explore
these and other issues in the American as well as international context.
Tracks:
Immigration/Changing Demographics of the Suburbs
Special Segregation by Lifestyle/Economics; Gated Communities
Megapolitans/Metropolitan Form
Transportation
Energy Consumption/Sustainable Environment
Disasters/Adaptation
Transnational Communities/Residential Tourism
Governance & Regulation
Business of Suburbia/Economic Development/Economic Space
Suburban Decline
Urban Form at the Neighborhood Level
Newburbia/Newtowns
History
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