3 November 2006 – 4 November 2006
Conference "Paradigmatic Cities? "
[i]Conference [/i]
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
3rd and 4th November 2006
Scottish Trade Union Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
Urban studies has a long history of identifying particular cities as emblematic of urbanism more generally. Through such processes certain
cities have emerged as 'obligatory points of passage' within the urban studies literature: whether because apparently emblematic of particular
'urbanisms' (for example, Paris as the birthplace of urban modernism, or Los Angeles as the eponymous 'post-metropolis') or of more specific processe s
(for example, revanchism = New York, diversity = Toronto).
Such tendencies have come in for sustained critique in recent years.Where some have launched what might be termed a 'thin critique'
(challenging the paradigmatic status of one city, only to substitute that city for another), others have mounted a more serious challenge to the identification of
'paradigmatic' cities per se. Yet despite these critiques, tendencies remain in the urban studies literature to focus disproportionately on a small
number of cities, as well as to identify newly paradigmatic places (witness the re-emergence of a 'Chicago School' at this years AAG).
This two-day event aims to provide a forum for discussion and debate around the epistemologies and politics of paradigmatic thinking in urban
studies, policy and practice.
To help foster discussion the event will be organised around a combination of Key Note addresses, shorter position papers and group discussion.
[b]Deadline for registration: 20 October 2006[/b]
Registration:
£50 (Postgraduate/unwaged: £10)
Information and attachments can be downloaded from:
http://www.urban-geography.org.uk
Event schedule:
- Start: 11-03-2006
- End: 11-04-2006.




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The Journal of Urbanism
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