Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, www.aag.org, New
York, USA, February 24-28, 2012.
Sessions: 1) Cities and Urban Regions in Latin America; 2) International
Institutions and/or Urban and Planning Issues.
Organizers:
Joel Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email
[email protected] and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email:
[email protected]
Deadline: September 20, 2011
We invite paper proposals for a session on urban topics in developing areas
and internationally to take place at the annual meeting of the AAG
(www.aag.org) in
New York City, February 24-28, 2012. Papers might explore, but not be
limited to
Economic restructuring and its spatial impacts
Changing urban morphology
Transnational linkages
Urban hierarchies
Historic city centers
Urban historical geography
Ethnic neighborhoods
City planning in Latin America
Criminality, urban gangs and the Geography of illegal territories
The informal sector
Intra-metropolitan mobility
The politics of urban environmental problems
Population Issues
Informal transportation and social conflicts
Participatory budget and urban social movements
Urban social geography
The International Planning Movement
The Urban International: the spatiality of international institutions such
as the IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning, UCLG-United
Cities
and Local Governments, IULA-International Union of Local Authorities and
IHA-International Housing Association alone or in Comparative Perspective
After registering for the conference at http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/
and submitting your abstract for a paper session, forward a copy of the
abstract
and your PIN to:
Joel Outtes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email
[email protected] and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email:
[email protected]
