URBAN STUDIES
SUMMER SCHOOL
CityLAB II "Suburbanism"

Antwerp, Belgium
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CLOSED
• OASeS, Centre on Inequalty, Poverty, Exclusion and the City 
• Center for Urban History - University of Antwerp
• Department of Transport and Regional Economics
• Faculty of Design Sciences


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GENERAL INFORMATION AND THEME
Recent years have seen a revival of interest in the study of suburbs, suburbanization and suburbanism. Central to this revival is a concern with the empirical diversity of suburbs and processes of suburbanization as well as with the growing internal and spatial differentiation of suburbs due to the impoverishment, increased ethnic diversity, densification and sprawl of economic activities in an increasing number of suburbs. These concerns undermine established understandings of suburbanism and turn the study of suburbs into a promising field for conceptual renewal and interdisciplinary reflection. The second edition of CityLAB, organized by the Institute for Urban Studies will explore both the empirical diversity of suburbs and their increasing internal differentiation from an interdisciplinary perspective. It will examine the complexity of suburban phenomena from insights deriving from sociology, history, economic geography, political sciences, architecture and urban planning. Its target group is PhD and early stage post-doctoral researchers who want to develop such multi-perspectival understanding of suburbs, suburbanization and suburbanism and become more sensitive to the diversity of actually existing suburbs. The CityLAB Summer School is explicitly international and interdisciplinary in orientation and will take full advantage of its location in one of the most (sub)urbanized regions in Western Europe, Belgium. 

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME

16.06 Monday | 9.00 - 19.00
"EXPLORING SUBURBANISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE"
• Setting the scene: disciplinary perspectives on suburbanisms
• Field trip 1: Antwerp suburbs by bus
• Social activity: Dinner

17.06 Tuesday | 9.00 - 19.00
"HISTORICIZING SUBURBANISM"
• The Anglo-American and European model of the suburb, their uses and limitations
Mark Clapson | Department of Social and Historical Studies, University of Westminster, London, UK 
• ‘The genesis of the grid city’
André Loeckx | Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 
• Social activity: screening of ‘Conversations in Milton Keynes’
introduction by Ingo Baltes, director of the documentary and guided tour to architectural exhibition ‘Re-Work Brussels. Space for Industry, Logistics and Retail in the City’ at Vai. 

18.06 Wednesday | 9.00 - 16.30
"GLOBAL SUBURBANISMS"
• Global suburbanisms
Roger Keil | Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
• ‘The ghost of suburbia: the resilience of the suburban housing ideal’ 
Bruno Meeus and Pascal De Decker | Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 

19.06 Thursday | 19.00
"MEASURING SUBURBS AND ECONOMIC DISPERSAL"
• Ann Verhetsel , Thomas Vanoutrieve and Isabelle Thomas | Department of Transport and Spatial Economics, University of Antwerp (Belgium) and Department of Geography, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
• Field trip 2: Antwerp suburbs by tram

20.06 Friday: 10.00 - 16.00
"GOVERNING THE SUBURBS"
• ‘City-regional governance’
Filip De Rynck | Department of Administration and Management, University of Ghent, Belgium 
• ‘Is the suburb a city?’
Eric Corijn | Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
• Closing words

ORGANIZERS
• Stijn Oosterlynck | OASeS, Centre on Inequalty, Poverty, Exclusion and the City, University of Antwerp
• Ilja Van Damme | Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp 

APPLICATION AND FEES  
• If you are interested in participating in the School, you need to send a letter of motivation explaining why you want to participate in this summer school and how you aim to contribute to the discussions (maximum 1000 words), and a brief CV to citylab@uantwerpen.be before 30 April 2014.
• The fee for the Summer School is 300 €; this includes meals and refreshments during the day, two social activities in the evening and two field trips in and around Antwerp. Participants arrange their own accommodation. A list of reasonably priced ho(s)tells will be distributed to the participants.
• Students will receive an official certificate of participation (counting for 6 ECTS) by writing a successful paper, in which they relate the insights of the week to their own research (max. 10 pages).

INFO & CONTACT:
CityLAB Urban Studies Summer School website
 E-MAIL | citylab@uantwerpen.be