CITIES TO BE TAMED? is an international conference aimed at simultaneously exploring and questioning the role played by urban planning, design, and policies in the continuous urbanisation processes aff ecting the so-called ‘global South’.
Under the purposefully vague label of ‘urban South’, a nuanced variety of urban environments scattered across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America share: (1) the prominence of informal settlements, (2) the tension between imported and endogenous paths to modernisation and (3) exacerbated social confl icts related to the use of the urban space. In addressing one or more of the three above mentioned topics, the Conference aims to explore the diff erence between ‘standard’ and ‘alternative’ strategies of transformation – especially investigating the relationships between the visions of policy-making, and thetransformative agency of everyday urbanity.
As such, the Conference targets urban researchers coming from the backgrounds of planning and urbanism, architecture, design theory, and geography – and welcomes both theoretical refl ections and academic perspectives, and casestudy related practices and insights.
Topics:
(1) DESIGNING THE INFORMAL CITY/ THE INFORMAL DESIGN OF THE CITY.
(2) STEREOTYPICAL VISIONS/ ENDURING REALITIES.
(3) THE POWER OF PLANNING/ EMPOWERING BY PLANNING.
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Under the purposefully vague label of ‘urban South’, a nuanced variety of urban environments scattered across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America share: (1) the prominence of informal settlements, (2) the tension between imported and endogenous paths to modernisation and (3) exacerbated social confl icts related to the use of the urban space. In addressing one or more of the three above mentioned topics, the Conference aims to explore the diff erence between ‘standard’ and ‘alternative’ strategies of transformation – especially investigating the relationships between the visions of policy-making, and thetransformative agency of everyday urbanity.
As such, the Conference targets urban researchers coming from the backgrounds of planning and urbanism, architecture, design theory, and geography – and welcomes both theoretical refl ections and academic perspectives, and casestudy related practices and insights.
Topics:
(1) DESIGNING THE INFORMAL CITY/ THE INFORMAL DESIGN OF THE CITY.
(2) STEREOTYPICAL VISIONS/ ENDURING REALITIES.
(3) THE POWER OF PLANNING/ EMPOWERING BY PLANNING.
More information:
contestedspaces
Call for papers
