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“Smart Growth Strategies for U.S. Metropolitan History”--Urban History Association Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20-23, 2010
| Location: | Nevada, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2010-01-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-12-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
172432 |
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Call for Papers: “Smart Growth Strategies for U.S. Metropolitan History”
For SUSTAINABLE CITIES?
Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada
October 20-23, 2010
http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html
The historiography of American metropolitan areas has in important respects replicated the developmental trajectory of its subject matter. With the growth of the New Suburban History, the field has sprawled, with new nodes and growth centers of scholarship highlighting the diversity of suburban communities and their complex economic, political, and social histories and decentering large cities. At this point it is worth asking whether, like historical suburbs, these histories are supporting fragmentation and whether the recognition of so many particular suburban histories may threaten to overwhelm our ability to grasp or preserve connections between places in metropolitan systems of economy, culture, or politics. This panel will take its cue from New Regionalist and Regional Equity discussions in the social sciences to assess the prospects of a smarter, more sustainable, and more integrated way of thinking about metropolitan places in historical perspective. Acting as historians we may pursue “smart growth” in our fields by strategically adopting a metropolitan or regional framing for our studies. We may enrich both urban and suburban studies by understanding the connections between these fields as parts of regional or metropolitan systems. And, like advocates of mixed-use development as an antidote to thoughtless sprawl, we may in scholarly practice benefit from the densification or juxtaposition of methods, theories, and approaches that integrate analyses from multiple disciplines into historical research.
This panel seeks papers that:
• systematically analyze the connections between different metropolitan spaces and/or dynamics operating on metropolitan scales that have affected the development of local places.
• Assess metropolitan movements for environmental protection, equity, and sustainability in historical perspective, highlighting the relationships between local interests and broader scales of organization, action, and analysis.
• Apply the methods, theories, and practices of scholars in other metropolitan-oriented fields to historical research.
• Map synthetic approaches to the New Suburban History, urban history, or other spatial framings of metropolitan places in history
• Assess social formations (race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality) in a purposefully metropolitan framework.
• Evaluate the construction of metropolitan/regional identity or the tension between local and regional senses of place.
Please send contact information and one-page abstract of paper or presentation to michan@uta.edu by January 1, 2010. Included panelists will be notified by email.
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Michan Connor
Assistant Professor
School of Urban and Public Affairs
601 S. Nedderman Dr. Box 19419
Arlington, TX 76019-0419
ph: (817)272-3130
Email: michan@uta.edu
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