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--- Planners Network 2014 Conference: Planning at the Borders http://plannersnetwork2014.wordpress.com/ In the 21st century, borders have expanded beyond defined international borderlines, and they have penetrated into cities - big and small - into suburbs, towns, and rural areas all over the world. While unrestrained globalization continues to homogenize some places, enclose and expropriate others, and produce new tensions and cleavages; people and communities are resisting. They are resisting and scaling walls, opposing displacement and segregation, diversifying landscapes, breaking the ceilings that prevent their mobility and their effective participation, establishing collaboratives, and reclaiming their health, histories and voices. Planning in today's globalized spaces implies dealing with multiple borders, physical and otherwise, and acting in multiple arenas. In order to broaden the range of the discussion about planning at/over/through the borders, the 2014 Annual Planning Network Conference calls for addressing the border in both material and conceptual terms. It also calls for advancing and sharing innovative and progressive responses to confront the exclusionary challenges that borders pose to communities all over the world. Such challenges range from the physical and disciplinary to formal or informal mechanisms of control, and can encompass an array of themes, including economic, social, environmental, institutional, cultural, linguistic, and gender issues, among others. For the first time in its history, the Planners Network conference will take place in Mexico, in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, in the State of Chihuahua, from June 5th to June 7th, 2014 at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ). Ciudad Juárez is an international crossroad of free trade, and social change in the Americas. It is also part of the Borderplex, a transborder metropolitan area consisting of three cities (Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, and Las Cruces), located in three different states (Chihuahua, Texas, and Nuevo Mexico), and in two different countries (México and the United States). The challenge of planning at the borders is here in Ciudad Juárez and we invite you to cross over and join us at the border. ________________________ Abstracts proposing pre-organized sessions, workshops, individual presentations, posters, or social documentation should be submitted before April 10, 2014 at: pnconference2...@gmail.com. Preference will be given to participatory sessions. (Suggested) Tracks for participation: 1. community land trusts 2. fair economic development and solidarity economy 3. food and urban agriculture 4. methods for democratic participation 5. planning in transborder cities 6. film and media as community advocacy tools 7. mobility and transportation justice Registration Fees Early Bird PN Member: $80 PN Member after (April 20): $105 Early Bird Non PN Member: $105 Non-Member after (April 20): $130 Low-income (less than $20 k/per year): $40 Friday only: $55 Friday only (Low-income): $30 Volunteers, media, others: Gratis Sustainer: $250 Super-sustainer: $500 More information about registration, mobile workshops, and accommodations will be provided soon on the conference website: http://plannersnetwork2014.wordpress.com/ One of the tours includes a transborder visit from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso. Thank you! The 2014 Planners Network Conference Steering Committee. www.plannersnetwork.org https://www.facebook.com/PlannersNetwork
